About Isaac Gonzalez Flagg
Isaac Gonzalez Flagg was an American classical scholar.
Biographical details
Basic information
| person Full name | Isaac Gonzalez Flagg |
| cake Date of birth | September 7, 1843 |
| event_busy Date of death | February 10, 1931 |
Core DBCS data
| Name | FLAGG, Isaac Gonzalez |
| Dates (life) | September 7, 1843 - February 10, 1931 |
| Education | A.B. Harvard, 1864; study at Berlin & Göttingen, 1869-71; Ph.D. Göttingen, 1871. |
| Professional experience | Tutor Gk. Harvard, 1865-9; prof. Gk. Cornell, 1871-88; temp. asst. class, philol. U. California, 1890-1; assoc. prof., 1892-9; assoc. prof. Gk., 1899-1909. |
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| A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges | |
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Rutgers DBCS data for Isaac Gonzalez Flagg
Isaac Gonzalez Flagg has a dedicated entry page on the Rutgers database of classical scholars with the name. Included data from this source may provide the person's name, date of birth, date of death, major works, professional experience, obituaries, and compiler remarks.
About the Rutgers DBCS
The Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars (DBCS) is a database of classical scholars that is owned and operated by Rutgers University. It is a project within the Department of Classics at the School of Arts and Sciences in New Brunswick, NJ. Started in 2018, the database has over 900 records of scholars as of April 2020. The core set of records comes from a book by Ward W. Briggs, Jr., titled Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists.
Record numbers
Main details
| Name | FLAGG, Isaac Gonzalez |
| Dat of birth | September 7, 1843 |
| Born city | Beverly |
| Born state/country | MA |
| Parents | Wilson & Caroline Eveleth F. |
| Date of death | February 10, 1931 |
| Death city | Berkeley |
| Death state/country | CA |
| Married | Mary Lynes, 1867. |
Career and works
| Education | A.B. Harvard, 1864; study at Berlin & Göttingen, 1869-71; Ph.D. Göttingen, 1871. |
| Professional experience | Tutor Gk. Harvard, 1865-9; prof. Gk. Cornell, 1871-88; temp. asst. class, philol. U. California, 1890-1; assoc. prof., 1892-9; assoc. prof. Gk., 1899-1909. |
| Dissertation | “An Analysis of Schiller's Tragedy, Die Braut von Messina, after Aristotle's Poetics” (Göttingen, 1871). |
| Publications | The Hellenic Orations of Demosthenes (Boston, 1880); Pedantic Versicles (Boston, 1883); Iphigenia among the Taurians (Boston, 1889); Outlines of the Temporal and Modal Principles of Attic Prose (Berkeley, 1893); The Lives of Cornelius Nepos (Boston, 1895); A Writer of Attic Prose: Models from Xenophon (New York, 1902); Plato. The Apology and Crito (New York, 1907); A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges based upon the German of Dr. Georg Autenrieth, trans. Robert P. Keep, rev. Flagg (New York, 1913); Circe: A Dramatic Fantasy (East Aurora, NY, 1915); Persephone: A Masque (San Francisco, 1916); Hylethena and Other Poems (Boston, 1919); “Hesperides,” U. Cal. University Chronicle 24 (1922) 239-62; Three Plays (Berkeley, 1936). |
| Notes | Isaac Flagg taught first at the newly established Cornell before moving west. At Berkeley he was known for his success in undergraduate classes. In the introduction to his edition of Nepos, he explains his method of requiring students to read texts aloud so the listener could ascertain whether the student understood the passage in question. Much of his writing was poems and poetic dramas. He produced no great body of classical scholarship apart from his school texts; he is remembered for his revision of Keep's translation of Autenrieth, still in print. His most important student was Ivan Linforth. Flagg's career at Berkeley was troubled and Fontenrose quotes the remark of Arthur Ryder that Flagg was a mouse who had outlived many cats. From 1893 to 1897 his position was under attack by a faction of the Board of Regents, but he was supported wholeheartedly by President Martin Kellogg and other influential members of the University of California faculty. Though he maintained his job, he was not promoted to professor until he retired. |
| Sources | Fontenrose, 12-5 et passim; WhAm 4:315. |
| Author (entry) | Joseph E. Fontenrose |
Record notes
About these data
| Retrieval date | Apr. 19, 2020 |
| Copyright | DBCS @ Rutgers |
Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars Est. 2018The Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars (DBCS) is a database of classical scholars that is owned and operated by Rutgers University. It is a project within the Department of Classics at the School of Arts and Sciences in New Brunswick, NJ. Started in 2018, the database has over 900 records of scholars as of April 2020. The core set of records comes from a book by Ward W. Briggs, Jr., titled Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists.
