>Yes. Fred and I were colleagues from 1954 till his retirement in
about
>1988, first at Concordia Seminary, then at Christ Seminary Seminex
(both in
>greater St. Louis), and finally at the Lutheran School of Theology at
>Chicago. Fred moved back to St. Louis on retirement. I see him now and
then
>here in Chicago or in St. Louis.
>
>When we were both graduate students, majoring in classical philology,
we
>had some seminars together. I remember one on Cicero's DE NATURA
DEORUM in
>which he and I were the only students with Prof. Philip H. De Lacy.
While
>Fred's doctorate came from the University of Chicago (under Gertrude
Smith,
>as I recall), mine was at Washington University in St. Louis, with
Phil De
>Lacy as my advisor. Fred wrote on Greek tragedy, I on philosophy in
the
>Early Roman Empire. We share a commitment to the values of wide
reading in
>Greco-Roman literature as a valuable--if not indispensable--too for
>interpreting the New Testament. I would add to that a special interest
in
>classical archaeology and art history, having spent almost 17 years in
the
>excavation of Caesarea Maritima in Israel. My first mentor in
archaeology
>was a marvelous teach, George Emmanuel Mylonas at Washington
University.
>[Was he still active when you came to Washington University, Carl?]
The original message came through to B-Greek with the subject-header,
"Danke?"--and I wondered who was being thanked for what in a
questioning manner! When I saw it was about Fred Danker, I was
delighted to see this addition to our treasury of Lore about the great
scholars in the area of Biblical Greek.
My own little footnote: Yes, George Mylonas WAS still at Washington U
when I arrived in 1961. At that point he was the <italic>Žminence
grise</italic> of the southwest corner of the campus and the only one
at that time holding the title of "Distinguished Professor" in Arts and
Sciences. It took me a while to understand why more than half of the
university's library holdings in Classics were over in Steinberg Hall
rather than in the main library which was then still in Ridgley. Of
course it wasn't long after I came that George retired, went back to
Greece, and spent his last years in the effort to protect the great
buildings of the acropolis in Athens from industrial pollution (the
Erechtheum especially was crumbling away, and the caryatids had lost
most facial features).
Are you sure that Danker didn't do a Ph.D. in Classics at W.U., Edgar?
The bound volume in our departmental library is right next to yours! Or
did he take an additional degree at Chicago? That wouldn't surprise
me.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics/Washington University
One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018
Summer: 1647 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(704) 675-4243
cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu OR cconrad@yancey.main.nc.us
WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/
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