Harold North Fowler

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Harold North Fowler

1859–1955

An American classicist and archaeologist, he helped bring Greek thought to modern readers through early Loeb Classical Library translations of Plato. He also spent decades teaching Greek and writing about the ancient world with a scholar’s care and a teacher’s clarity.

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A History of Roman Literature

A History of Roman Literature

by Harold North Fowler

About the author

Born in Westfield, Massachusetts, in 1859, Harold North Fowler studied at Harvard and continued his training in Europe before building a long academic career in classics. He taught at several institutions and became especially associated with Western Reserve University, where he served as professor of Greek and later professor emeritus.

Fowler is remembered both as a teacher and as a scholar of Greek antiquity. He worked in archaeology as well as classical literature, and he is particularly noted for studies connected with ancient Corinth and the diolkos, the trackway used to move ships across the Isthmus.

Many readers know him best through his translations. He was an original translator of several Plato volumes for the Loeb Classical Library, and he also translated Plutarch, helping make major Greek texts more approachable for English-speaking audiences in the early twentieth century.