Paul Shorey

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Paul Shorey, Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D. (August 3, 1857-April 24, 1934) was an American classical scholar, born at Davenport, Iowa After graduating from Harvard in 1878 he studied in Europe at Leipzig, Bonn, Athens, and Munich (Ph.D., 1884). He was a professor at several institutions from 1885 onward. Professor Shorey served at Bryn Mawr College (1885-92), then principally at the University of Chicago. In 1901-02 he was professor in the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, and in 1913-14 he was Roosevelt professor in the University of Berlin. Professor Shorey was made a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. From 1908 he was managing editor of Classical Philology. He published:

• De Platonis Idearum Doctrina (1884)
• The Idea of Good in Plato's Republic (1895)
• The Unity of Plato's Thought (1903)
• An edition of Horace's Odes and Epodes (1898; revised, with Laing, 1910)

After his death, one of many articles published about him asserted that he knew all 12,000 lines of the Iliad by heart. [1]

[1] "Paul Shorey 1857-1934." Classical Philology 29, no. 3 (Jul., 1934): 185-188.