His first duty became to rescue the classical heritage for Democratic America. " As a member of "the generation of the deluge, " he watched sorrowfully as the classics were banished from the center of the liberal arts to near oblivion. Hadas wrote that anyone who entered classics in the Great Depression was "foolhardy" but "willingness to starve did prove something. Otto's The Homeric Gods (1954), and (with James Willis) Hermann Fränkel's Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy (1975). Gregorovius' The Ghetto and the Jews of Rome (1948), Jacob Burckhardt's The Age of Constantine the Great (1949), Walter F. His command of German enabled him to translate important secondary works into English: Alfred Koerte's Hellenistic Poetry (1929), Elias Bickermann's The Maccabees (1947), F. These books display his mastery of Greek and Jewish sources and his consistently sound judgment. His most enduring scholarly contributions are his dissertation, his editions of The Epistle of Aristeas (1950) and Third and Fourth Maccabees (1953), and his own Hellenistic Culture (1959). His lifework divides into scholarship, popularization, and teaching. From 1956 to 1966 he was Jay Professor of Greek.ĭuring his Columbia years, Hadas achieved a fame that transcends narrow boundaries. Hadas taught two years (1928 - 1930) at the University of Cincinnati and then returned to Columbia, where he served in the Department of Greek and Latin until his death. Hadas' dissertation, published as Sextus Pompey (1930), remains the authoritative biography of its subject.
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