Thomas Day Seymour
American classical philologist (1848–1907)
Thomas Day Seymour (April 1, 1848 – December 31, 1907) was an American classical scholar. He spent most of his career as a Professor of Greek at Yale University and published primarily on the works of Homer.
Life
Born in Hudson, Ohio, Seymour graduated with a B.A. in 1870 at Western Reserve College, present day Case Western Reserve University, where his father, Nathan Perkins Seymour, was for many years Professor of Greek and Latin. He received an ad eundem degree from Yale in 1870, and honorary LL.D. degrees from Western Reserve in 1894, from Glasgow University in 1901, and from Harvard University in 1906. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1900 and the American Philosophical Society in 1906.
After studying in Berlin and Leipzig and making many visits to Greece, Seymour returned to Western Reserve College as professor of Greek from 1872 to 1880 before becoming professor of Greek at Yale University in 1880, holding his position until his death in New Haven.
From 1887 to 1901 Seymour was chairman of the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and was president of the Archaeological Institute of America from 1903. He was one of the American editors of the Classical Review.
He was the father of Yale President Charles Seymour, and the great-nephew of Yale President Jeremiah Day.
He married Sarah Melissa Hitchcock (b.
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