Herbert Baldwin Foster papers

Collection — Box: 1 [31151030059855]

Identifier: MS-0410

Staff Only

Herbert Baldwin Foster was born on November 12, 1874 in Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1905, he completed the first English translation of Cassius Dio Cocceianus's history of Rome. The collection consists of five folders. Two of them contain a manuscript of, most likely, Foster's presentation to the Philological Seminar in 1900 on the deus ex machina in Euripides's plays.

Dates

1897-1900

Creator

Foster, Herbert Baldwin, 1874-1906 (Person)

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Extent

0.24 Cubic Feet (1 legal half-size document box)

Additional Description

Biographical / Historical

Herbert Baldwin Foster was born on November 12, 1874 in Amherst, Massachusetts. He earned his A.B. at Harvard in 1895, and taught for one year at the Brooklyn Latin School in Brooklyn, New York. In 1897 he entered Hopkins to earn his Ph.D. in Greek.

In 1905, he completed the first English translation of Cassius Dio Cocceianus's history of Rome. Foster died in 1906.

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of five folders with materials dating from 1897 to 1900. Two of them contain a manuscript of, most likely, Foster's presentation to the Philological Seminar in 1900 on the deus ex machina in Euripides's plays. The other three folders are most likely a draft of his dissertation on the same topic.