Name Moses Hadas | Children Rachel Hadas | |
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Died August 17, 1966, Aspen, Colorado, United States Books History of Greek Literature, Aristeas to Philocrates, The Apocrypha, A History of Latin Literature, Hellenistic Culture Similar People Rachel Hadas, Aristophanes, Tacitus, Richard Claverhouse Jebb, George II of Great Britain | ||
Moses Hadas (June 25, 1900, Atlanta, Georgia – August 17, 1966) was an American teacher, a classical scholar, and a translator of numerous works.
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Life
Raised in Atlanta in a Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jewish household, his early studies included rabbinical training. He graduated from Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1926) and took his doctorate in classics in 1930. He was fluent in Yiddish, German, ancient Hebrew, ancient Greek, Latin, French, and Italian, and well-versed in other languages.
His most productive years were spent at Columbia University, where he was a colleague of Jacques Barzun and Lionel Trilling. There he bucked the prevailing classical methods of the day—textual criticism and grammar—presenting classics, even in translation, as worthy of study as literary works in their own right.
He embraced television as a tool for education, becoming a telelecturer and a pundit on broadcast television. He also recorded classical works on phonograph and tape.
His daughter Rachel Hadas is a poet, teacher, essayist, and translator.
Selected works
Discography
During the fifties, Hadas recorded several albums of Latin and Greek works on Folkways Records.