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Moses Hadas

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January 01, 1900

died

January 01, 1966

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Moses Hadas (1900–1966) was an American teacher, one of the leading classical scholars of the twentieth century, and a translator of numerous works.

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 took his talent for languages, combined it with a popularizing impulse, to buck the prevailing classical methods of...more

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Books by Moses Hadas

Average rating: 3.96 · 1,189 ratings · 78 reviews · 39 distinct works

	The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters 4.03 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1968	My rating:
	Greek Drama 3.79 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1965 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Imperial Rome 3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Stoic Philosophy of Seneca 3.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1987	My rating:
	Three Greek Romances 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1964 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Humanism: The Greek Ideal and its Survival 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1960 — 4 editions	My rating:
	A History of Latin Literature 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Essential Works of Stoicism 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1968	My rating:
	Introduction to Classical Drama by Moses Hadas, Alvin C. Eurich (foreword) 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1966	My rating:
	Ancilla to Classical Reading 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1954 — 2 editions	My rating: