Frederic de Forest Allen

Frederic de Forest Allen (1844—97) was an American classical scholar, born at Oberlin, Ohio. He graduated at Oberlin College in 1863, and was at Leipzig in 1868—70. He took his Ph. D there with his thesis "De Dialecto Locrensium". [cite book | last = edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby | title = The New International Encyclopaedia | publisher = Dodd, Mead and company | date = 1906 | location = | pages = Page 367 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=mzcrAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA367&dq=photogravure+Fred+Hovey+Allen&ie=ISO-8859-1 | doi = | id = ]

After his education, he was professor of foreign languages successively in the University of East Tennessee, the University of Cincinnati, and at Yale College. He held the chair of classical philology at Harvard for the last seventeen years of his life.

A list of his books may be found in the "Harvard Studies in Classical Philology", volume ix, (Boston, 1898). His books include:
* "Remnants of Early Latin", (1880)
* A revision of Hadley's "Greek Grammar", (second edition, 1886)
* "Greek Versification in Inscriptions" (1888)
* "Æschylus: The Prometheus Bound and the Fragments of the Prometheus Unbound" (1897)

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