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PARSONS, Richard

  • PARSONS, Richard

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Date of Birth
June 25, 1847
Born City
Moate
Born State/Country
Ireland
Parents
Richard & Margaret Payne P.
Date of Death
February 11, 1926
Death City
Delaware
Death State/Country
OH
Married
Eusebia Larason, 1871.
EDUCATION

A.B. Ohio Wesleyan, 1868; A.M., 1871; Litt.D., 1921.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Tutor to prof. Gk. Ohio Wesleyan, 1875-1920; spec. stud. ASCSA, 1893-4.


DISSERTATION

PUBLICATIONS

Cebes' Tablet (Boston, 1887; repr. & rev. 1889, 1892, 1895, 1897 [bis], 1901, 1904).


NOTES

Richard Parsons combined a 40-year teaching career at his alma mater, Ohio Wesleyan, with an active interest in scholarship. He was witty in class and a productive scholar, publishing an important school edition of the so-called Tablet of Cebes and a translation of Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris. He also worked on Epictetus. The unique Tablet, a philosophical work admired by Milton but rarely read by modern students of Greek or their teachers, was not reedited in English until 1983. His work proved its usefulness at the turn of the century by going through two editions and eight printings by 1904.


SOURCES

Delaware Gazette (11 Feb. 1926) 1; H. C. Hubbart, Ohio Wesleyan. The First Hundred Years (Hammond, IN, 1943) 196-7; B. L. McElroy, Ohio Wesleyan Magazine 3.6 (Mar. 1926) 131 (with portrait); Parsons, History of Delaware County and Ohio (Chicago, 1880), 640.


AUTHOR
Donald Lateiner
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