Moses Hadas (June 25, 1900, Atlanta, Georgia – August 17, 1966) was an American teacher, a classical scholar, and a translator of numerous works from Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and German.
He embraced television as a tool for education, becoming a telelecturer and a pundit on broadcast television. He also recorded classical works on phonograph and tape.[1] Early in 1966, Hadas delivered four lectures on Hebraism and Hellenism at the 92nd St Y in New York City.[2][3][4]
His daughter Rachel Hadas is a poet, teacher, essayist, and translator.[1] With his first wife, he had a son David Hadas (1931-2004), a professor of English and Religious Studies at Washington University; and Jane Streusand.
Hadas is credited with two celebrated witticisms:
- "This book fills a much-needed gap."
- "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it."
Selected worksedit
Sextus Pompey. 1930
Book of delight, by Joseph ben Meir Zabara; translated by Moses Hadas; with an introduction by Merriam Sherwood. 1932
History of Greek literature. 1950
History of Latin literature. 1952.
Greek poets. 1953
Ancilla to classical reading. 1954
Oedipus. translated with an introd. by Moses Hadas. 1955
History of Rome, from its origins to 529 A.D., as told by the Roman historians. 1956
Thyestes. Translated, with an introduction by Moses Hadas. 1957
Stoic philosophy of Seneca; essays and letters of Seneca.. 1958
Hellenistic culture: fusion and diffusion. 1959
Humanism: the Greek ideal and its survival. 1960
Essential works of Stoicism. 1961
Old wine, new bottles; a humanist teacher at work. 1962
Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Modern abridgment, 1962
Hellenistic literature. 1963
Style the repository. 1965
Heroes and gods; spiritual biographies in antiquity, by Moses Hadas and Morton Smith. 1965
Introduction to classical drama. Foreword by Alvin C. Eurich. 1966
Living tradition. 1967
Solomon Maimon, an autobiography / edited and with a preface by Moses Hadas. 1975
Discographyedit
During the fifties, Hadas recorded several albums of Latin and Greek works on Folkways Records.[5]
The Story of Virgil's Aeneid: Introduction and Readings in Latin (and English) by Professor Moses Hadas (1955)
The Latin Language: Introduction and Reading in Latin (and English) by Professor Moses Hadas of Columbia University (1955)
Plato on the Death of Socrates: Introduction with Readings from the Apology and the Phaedo in Greek & in English trans. (1956)
Caesar: Readings in Latin and English by Professor Moses Hadas (1956)
Cicero: Commentary and Readings in Latin and English by Moses Hadas (1956)
Longus - Daphnis and Chloe: Read by Moses Hadas from His Translation (1958)
Referencesedit
^ abcdef"The Many Lives of Moses Hadas by Rachel Hadas"