Grant Showerman Explained

Grant Showerman
Alma Mater:	University of Wisconsin
Birth Date:	9 January 1870
Birth Place:	Brookfield, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, U.S.
Death Place:	Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
Spouse:	Zilpha Marie Vernon
Parents:	Hiram Showerman and Ellen Augusta Parker
Relations:	Luther Parker (grandfather)

Grant Showerman Ph.D. (January 9, 1870 – November 13, 1935) was an American classical scholar.

Career overview

Grant Showerman was born in Brookfield, Wisconsin in 1870.^[1] He was educated at Carroll College and at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where he worked as instructor in Latin (1900–1909), and from 1909 until his death as professor of classics.^[2] Showerman House in Kronshage Hall is named after him.

Works

• With the Professor, Henry Holt and Company, 1910.
• Horace and His Influence, The Plimpton Press, 1922.
• Eternal Rome, 2 Vol., Yale University Press, 1924.
• Rome and the Romans; A Survey and Interpretation, The Macmillan Company, 1931.
• Monuments and Men of Ancient Rome, D. Appleton-Century Company, 1935.

Selected articles

• "Was Attis at Rome under the Republic?," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. XXXI, 1900.
• "Cicero's Appreciation of Greek Art," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. XXXIV, 1903.
• "The American College Course," Educational Review, September 1903.
• "Eastern Education Thru Western Eyes," Educational Review, Vol. XXX, December 1905.
• "A Professorial Meditation," Scribner's Magazine, Vol. XL, July/December 1906.
• "Mud and Nails," Educational Review, Vol. XXXV, May 1908.
• "College Professors Exposed," Educational Review, Vol. XXXVI, June/December 1908.
• "The Ancient Religions in Universal History," American Journal of Philology, Vol. XXIX, No. 114, 1908.
• "A Professorial Recantation," Educational Review, Vol. XXXVIII, June 1909.
• "The Making of a Professor," Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CIV, November 1909.^[3]
• "The Literary History of Rome," The Dial, Vol. XLVII, July/December 1909.
• "Philosophy of Trimmings," Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CV, 1910.
• "Peace and the Professor," Part II, The Kindergarten-Primary Magazine, Vol. XXIII, September 1910/June 1911.
• "Introduction to Study of Greek Mythology." In The World's Progress, Part II, The Delphian Society, 1911.
• "The Foxfielders at School," Educational Review, Vol. XLI, January 1911.
• "The Ancients Illuminated," The Dial, Vol. L, January/June 1911.
• "Let's us Have Peace!," The Dial, Vol. L, January/June 1911.
• "The Ferreresque Style of Writing History," The Dial, Vol. LI, July/December 1911.
• "The Making of a Democrat," The Yale Review, Vol. I, 1911/1912.
• "The Glory that was Greece," The Dial, Vol. LII, January/June 1912.
• "Roman Religious Experience," The Dial, Vol. LII, January/June 1912.
• "Life and Letters," Educational Review, Vol. XLV, February 1913.
• "Sunday in Andalusia," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CXIII, 1914.
• "The Democrat Reflects," The Unpopular Review, Vol. I, January/June 1914.
• "The Story of a Microbophobiac," The Unpopular Review, Vol. I, January/June 1914.
• "The Case for Pigeon-Holes," The Unpopular Review, Vol. I, January/June 1914.
• "A Critic of Democracy," The Dial, Vol. LVII, July/December 1914.

• "Balzac and Flaubert," The Dial, Vol. LVII, July/December 1914.
• "The Republic of Megaphon," The Unpopular Review, Vol. II, No. 4, October/December 1914.
• "Fitness First," The Methodist Review, Vol. XXXI, January/February 1915.
• "The Liberal Arts and Scientific Management," The Popular Science Monthly, June 1915.
• "Valencia, and May," The Catholic World, Vol. CI, April/September 1915.
• "The Drama Movement," The Dial, Vol. LVIII, January/June 1915.
• "The Great Vocation," The Dial, Vol. LIX, June/December 1915.
• "The New Painting," The Dial, Vol. LIX, June/December 1915.
• "The Way of the Translator," The Unpopular Review, Vol. V, No. 9, January/March 1916.
• "The Acceptable Year of the Lord," The Dial, Vol. LX, January/June 1916.
• "Painting and the Public," The Dial, Vol. LX, January/June 1916.
• "Sixty Years of the American Stage," The Dial, Vol. LXI, June/December 1916.
• "Modest Modernist Papers," Part II, The Unpopular Review, Vol. VII, January/June 1917.
• "Smith, Smoke and the War," The New Republic, February 1918.
• “Machine and Man,” The Unpopular Review, Vol. IX, No. 18, April/June 1918.
• "Theophrastus up to Date," The Bookman, Vol. XLVII, March/August 1918.
• "The Ethernal City." In Classical Studies in Honor of Charles Foster Smith, Madison, 1919.
• "Measuring the Immeasurable," The Nation, No. 109, July 1919.
• "The Professor and the Pipes," The Unpopular Review, Vol. XI, No. 22, April/June 1919.
• "The Pope's Last Appearance," University of California Chronicle, Vol. XXIV, 1922.
• "The Dead and the Quick in Eternal Home," The Independent, Vol. CVIII, January/June 1922.
• "Music Before a Roman Jury," The Independent, Vol. CIX, July/December 1922.
• "The Struggle for Liberty," University of California Chronicle, 1926.
• "Heckling the College," School and Society, Vol. XXIV, July/December 1926.
• "The Liberal College," School and Society, Vol. XXV, January/June 1927.
• "Art and Decency," The Yale Review, Vol. XI, 1922.^[4]
• "A Most Lamentable Comedy," School and Society, Vol. XXXIII, April 1931.

Other publications

• "Attis." In: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. II, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.
• "Criobolium." In: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. IV, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.
• "Cybele." In: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. IV, Charles Scribner's Sons, 19089.
• "Death and Disposal of the Dead." In: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. IV, Charles Scribner's Sons, 19098.
• Franz Cumont, The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism, with an introductory essay by Grant Showerman, Open Court Pub. Co., 1911.
• "Isis." In: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. VII, 1914.
• "Martial's Epigrams." In: Encyclopædia Americana, Vol. XVIII, 1919.
• "Taurobolium.” In: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. XII, 1921.
• Author:Grant Showerman.

Further reading

• Bassett, H. J., et al. (1936). "In Memoriam: Grant Showerman," The Classical Journal, Vol. 31, No. 9.
• Oldfather, W. A. (1936). "In Memoriam: Grant Showerman of Wisconsin and Rome," The American Scholar, No. 5, September.

External links

• • • • • Works by Grant Showerman, at Hathi Trust
• Works by Grant Showerman, at Harper's Magazine
• Works by Grant Showerman, at JSTOR

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=k8-uLxAnngUC&pg=PA586 "Showerman, Grant,"
2. http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=1748&keyword%20=grant+showerman "Showerman, Grant 1870 - 1935,"
3. Lodge, Gonzalez (1909). "Grant Showerman on the Making of a Professor," The Classical Weekly, Vol. 3, No. 9.
4. This article was later translated into Spanish. See "Arte y Decencia," Inter-América, Vol. VI, No. 1, 1922.