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Isaac Flagg
1843–1931
A classical scholar with a poet’s streak, he spent decades bringing Greek language and literature to students while also writing verse and dramatic works of his own. His books move easily between careful scholarship and a clear love of the ancient world.
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Circe : A dramatic fantasy
by Isaac Flagg
About the author
Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1843, Isaac Gonzalez Flagg was an American classical scholar, teacher, and author. Reference sources agree that he graduated from Harvard in 1864 and later earned a Ph.D. at Göttingen in 1871, part of a generation of American classicists shaped by both U.S. and German training.
Flagg is chiefly remembered for his work as an educator and writer on Greek language and literature. His published books include A Writer of Attic Prose, A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, and literary works such as Circe, Persephone, and Hylethen, and Other Poems, showing both his scholarly discipline and his imaginative side.
He died in 1931. Even from a brief survey of his career, he comes across as a teacher-writer who wanted the classics not just to be studied, but to be read with precision, energy, and pleasure.