Arthur Stanley Pease

Arthur Stanley Pease ( born September 22, 1881 in Somers, Connecticut, † January 7, 1964 in Concord, Massachusetts) was an American classical philologist.

Life

Arthur Stanley Pease studied classics at Harvard University, where in 1902 a Bachelor degree and Master degree obtained 1903. In 1905 he received his doctorate with a dissertation written in Latin on the Psalm commentaries of Jerome and then furthered his studies at the American School of Classical Studies in Rome.

His first job was as a lecturer at Harvard Pease 1909. In 1909, he joined as an Assistant Professor of Classics (later full professor ) at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, where he also served as curator of the Museum of Classical Art and Archaeology since 1911. In 1924 he became professor of Latin at Amherst College, whose president he was elected in 1927. For his services he received in 1931 an honorary doctorate of Williams College and 1933 of Amherst College, he had left the year before. From 1942 until his retirement in 1950 he served as Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Harvard University. From 1934 to 1941 he was vice-president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1939-1940 president of the American Philological Association.

In his philological research to Pease was mainly interested in the Roman literature of the late Republic and the Empire. He wrote to Cicero's writings basic comments De natura deorum and De divinatione and the fourth book of Virgil's Aeneid.

Pease saw his research as a result of an extensive collecting activities, which he pursued in other areas of his life. As an avid amateur botanist, he worked with his colleague Merritt Lyndon Fernald together and wrote essays and monographs on the flora in New Hampshire that have been observed in professional circles as much and in some cases considered standard works. His botanical author abbreviation is " Pease ".