The '''Martin Classical Lectures''' is a function of the Charles Beebe Martin Foundation established at Oberlin College in Ohio.
Charles Beebe Martin was a professor of Classics and classical archaeology at the College from 1880 to 1925. The foundation was set up to honor his memory.
==Works produced by the foundation== Lectures given at the foundation are collected and presented in volumes. Dates given are those of publication.
===Volumes published by Harvard University Press=== *Volume 1, Louis E. Lord (1931) *Volume 2 ''Aspects of Social Behavior in Ancient Rome'', Tenney Frank (1932) *Volume 3 ''Attic Vase-painting'', Charles Seltman (1933) *Volume 4 ''Humanistic Value of Archaeology'' Rhys Carpenter (1933) *Volume 5 ''Greek Ideals and Modern Life'', Sir. R. W. Livingstone (1935) *Volume 6 ''Five men; character studies from the Roman Empire'', by Martin Percival (M. P.) Charlesworth (1936) *Volume 7 ''Early Greek elegists'', Cecil Maurice (C. M.) Bowra (1938) *Volume 8 ''The Roman art of war under the republic'', Frank E. Adcock (1940) *Volume 9 ''Epigraphica attica'', Benjamin Dean Meritt (1940) *Volume 10 ''Archaic Attic gravestones'', Gisela M. A. Richter (1944) *Volume 11 ''Greek personality in archaic sculpture'', Georg Heinrich Karo (1948) *Volume 12 ''Thucydides and the world war'', Louis E. Lord (1945) *Volume 13 ''Classical influences in Renaissance literature'', Douglas Bush (1952) *Volume 14 ''Pindar and Aeschylus'', John Huston Finley (1955) *Volume 15 ''Classics and Renaissance thought'', Paul Oskar Kristeller (1955) and as ''Renaissance thought, the classic, scholastic and humanist strains'' (1961) *Volume 16 ''Ancient book illumination'', Kurt Weitzmann (1959) *Volume 17 ''Boundaries of Dionysus; Athenian foundations for the theory of tragedy'', Alfred Cary Schlesinger (1963) *Volume 18 ''Society and civilization in Greece and Rome'', Victor Ehrenberg (1964) *Volume 19 ''Aristophanes and the comic hero'', Cedric H. Whitman (1964) *Volume 20 ''Origin and early form of Greek tragedy'', Gerald Else (1965) *Volume 21 ''The meaning of Stoicism'', Ludwig Edelstein (1966) *Volume 22 ''Rubens and the classical tradition'', Wolfgang Stechow (1968) *Volume 23 ''The Athenian aristocracy, 399 to 31 B.C.'', Paul Lachlan MacKendrick (1969) *Volume 24 ''Thucydides on the nature of power'', A. G. (Arthur Geoffrey) Woodhead (1970) *Volume 25 ''Isis among the Greeks and Romans'', Friedrich Solmsen (1979) *Volume 26 ''Tragedy and civilization : an interpretation of Sophocles'', Charles Segal (1981) *Volume 27 ''Aristotle and the Renaissance'', Charles B. Schmitt (1983) *Volume 28 ''Herodotean narrative and discourse'', Mabel Lang (1984) *Volume 29 ''The art of Bacchylides'', Anne Pippin Burnett (1985) *Volume 30 ''Homer and the Nibelungenlied : comparative studies in epic style'' Bernard Fenik (1986)
===Volumes published by Princeton University Press=== *''Man in the middle voice: name and narration in the Odyssey'', John Peradotto (1990)
== See also == * Sigmund H. Danziger Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities: University of Chicago
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20050403191044/http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/mcl.html Martin Classical Lectures] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20050215024348/http://www.oberlin.edu/newserv/01feb/martin_lectures_2001.html 2001 Lecture Series]
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