Gordon Jennings Laing
American classical scholar
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- PhD Classics University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gordon Jennings Laing was an American classical scholar, born in London, Ontario, Canada. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1891, taught Latin and Greek at Whetham College, Vancouver, British Columbia , and at the University of Toronto . He took the degree of Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1896, after which he taught and served at Bryn Mawr , Chicago , McGill , and Chicago . He was managing editor of the Classical Journal from 1905 to 1908, associate editor of Classical Philology after 1905, and general editor of the University of Chicago Press after 1908. His publications include Masterpieces in Latin Literature , an edition of Selections from Ovid , and an edition of the Phormio of Terence , as well as Survivals of Roman Religion . The Gordon J. Laing Award from the University of Chicago Press is named in his honor. In 1939, he was the commencement speaker at Washington University in St. Louis.
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- The Religion of the Romans (1903) (35)
- The Origin of the Cult of the Lares (1921) (10)
- Greek and Roman Mythology (1918) (7)
- Roman Milestones and the Capita Viarum (5)
- Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire. Jérôme Carcopino , Henry T. Rowell , E. O. Lorimer (1942) (4)
- The Phormio of Terence (3)
- Book Review:Die germanische Urgeschichte in Tacitus Germania Eduard Norden (1)
- P. Cornelii Taciti libri qui supersunt. Carolus Halm , Georgium Andresen , Ericus KoestermannTom. I, fasc. 2: Libri ab excessu Divi Augusti xi-xvi; Tom. II, fasc. 2: Germania, Agricola, Dialogus de oratoribus. (1938) (1)
- Lucretius: De rerum natura. R. C. Trevelyan (1939) (1)
- Roman Prayer and Its Relation to Ethics (1911) (1)
- Roman Ideas of Deity (1)
- Book Review:The Germania of Tacitus: A Critical Edition Rodney Potter Robinson (1938) (0)
- Book Review:Studies in the History of the Roman Province of Syria Gustave Adolphus Harrer (0)
- A Study in the Commerce of Latium (0)
- Book Review:The Gothic History of Jordanes Charles Christopher Mierow (1919) (0)
- Book Review:Aspects of Social Behavior in Ancient Rome Tenney Frank (1934) (0)
- The Function of the University (0)
- Pompeii. R. C. Carrington (1939) (0)
- Book Review:Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Vol. XIV: Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii George K. Boyce (0)
- Platner's Ancient Rome (1905) (0)
- Book Review:Thesaurus linguae Latinae epigraphicae Leslie F. Smith, John H. McLean, Clinton W. Keyes (1938) (0)
- Book Review:A Student's Edition of the Odes of Horace, Books I to III. The Monumentum Aere Perennius E. R. Garnsey (1913) (0)
- The Three Principal Manuscripts of the Fasti of Ovid: Reginensis 1709 (Or Petavianus), Vaticanus 3262 (Or Ursinianus, and Monacensis 8122 (Or Mallerstorfiensis N. 2) (1899) (0)
- Book Review:The Romanization of Africa Proconsularis T. R. S. Broughton (1934) (0)
- Volume Information (1911) (0)
- Book Review:The Clothing of the Ancient Romans Lillian M. Wilson (1939) (0)
- Epigraphica Latina Africana. De Titulis Sepulcralibus Prosa Oratione Compositis Provinciarum Byzacenae et Proconsularis Quaestiones Selectae. Dissertatio Inauguralis. Gunnar Söderström (0)
- Volume Information (1922) (0)
- Book Review:Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Samuel Dill (1907) (0)
- Martial. Epigrams. Walter C. Ker (0)
- New Tales of Old Rome. Rodolfo Lanciani (1902) (0)
- Volume Information (1917) (0)
- The Romanization of Roman Britain. F. Haverfield (1920) (0)
- Book Review:Agrippa's Building Activities in Rome Frederick W. Shipley (1934) (0)
- Book Review:Ancient Oil Mills and Presses A. G. Drachmann (1934) (0)
- A Toast to Horace. Edward Kennard Rand (1938) (0)
- Book Review:Five Men: Character Studies from the Roman Empire Martin Percival Charlesworth (1938) (0)
- Book Review:Horace and the Spirit of Comedy Edward Kennard Rand (1939) (0)
- Volume Information (1907) (0)
- The Humanities and the Trend of Education (0)
- Book Review:Zur Geschichte des "Cursus Publicus": Inaugural-Dissertation Erik J. Holmberg (1934) (0)
- Book Review:A Selection of Latin Inscriptions R. H. Barrow (1939) (0)
- Q. Horati Flacci Carmina. Fridericus Vollmer (1909) (0)
- Lucretius and His Influence. George Depue Hadzsits (1938) (0)
- Volume Information (1928) (0)
- The Reign of Tiberius. Frank Burr Marsh (1933) (0)
- Livy. B. O. Foster (0)
- Book Review:Pagan Ideas of Immortality during the Early Roman Empire Clifford Herschel Moore (0)
- Selected Epigrams of Martial. Edwin Post (1911) (0)
- Book Review:Latin Epigraphy: An Introduction to the Study of Latin Inscriptions John Edwin Sandys (1919) (0)
- Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae. Hermannus Dessau (1919) (0)
- Masterpieces of Latin literature : Terence: Lucretius: Catullus: Virgil: Horace: Tibullus: Propertius: Ovid: Petronius: Martial: Juvenal: Cicero: Caesar: Livy: Tacitus: Pliny the Younger: Apuleius ; with biographical sketches and notes (0)
- Book Review:P. Cornelii Taciti libri qui supersunt Carolus Halm, Georgium Andresen, Ericus Kostermann (1937) (0)
- The Wonderland of knowledge : the new pictorial encyclopedia (1947) (0)
- Book Review:A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby (1930) (0)
- Book Review:La Vie quotidienne a Rome a l'apogee de l'empire Jerome Carcopino (1942) (0)
- Volume Information (1913) (0)
- The standard American encyclopedia : a library of universal knowledge, profusely illustrated : fifteen volumes (1937) (0)
- Book Review:Martial, the Epigrammatist; And Other Essays Kirby Flower Smith (0)
- Book Review:Studies in Magic from Latin Literature Eugene Tavenner (0)
- The Scope and Sphere of a University (0)
- Volume Information (1915) (0)
- Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. (1920) (0)
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