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Series I: Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1940-1976
Series II: Books, 1941-1977
Series IV: Addition, 1984

Gilbert Highet papers, 1929-1978

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Series III. Subject Files

These files contain notes, some related correspondence, some manuscripts for articles, essays, lectures and speeches, and much printed materials. The headings of selected folders are marked with symbols to indicate: 1. extensive files of notes (N); 2. some related correspondence (C); 3. manuscripts (M).

Subseries III.1: Greek Authors


Box 21 Aeschines

Box 21 Aeschylus

Box 21 Agathias

Box 21 Apollonius Rhodius

Box 21 Aratus

Box 21 Archilochus (C)

Box 21 Aristophanes (C) (M)

Aristotle

Box 21 Ethica

Box 21 General

Box 21 Logica

Box 21 Metaphysica

Box 21 Poetica

Box 21 Politica

Box 21 Rhetorica (N)


Box 22 Bacchylides

Box 22 Callimachus

Box 22 Cassius Dio

Box 22 Demosthenes (N)

Box 22 Dinarchus

Dio

Box 22 Bibliographica (N)

Box 22 Correspondence (C)

Box 22 Lecture

Box 22 Notes for Article (N)

Box 22 Notes on Speeches: l-20 (N)

Box 22 Notes on Speeches: 21-80 (N)


Box 23 Notes on Text (N)

Box 23 Von Arnim

Box 23 Diocles of Carystus

Box 23 Dionysius Halycanarssus

Box 23 Euripides

Box 23 Gorgas

Box 23 Greek Anthology

Box 23 Herodas

Box 23 Herodutus

Box 23 Hesiod


Box 24 Homer (C)

Box 24 Isocrates

Box 24 Julian

Box 24 Justin Martyr

Box 24 Libanius

Box 24 Longinius (M)

Box 24 Lucian

Box 24 Lycurgas

Box 24 Iysias – Lectures (N)(M)

Box 24 Lysias and Plato

Box 24 Melito

Box 24 Neo Platonists

Box 24 New Testament

Box 24 Philostratus

Box 24 Pindar


Box 25 Plato (N)

Box 25 Plato - Reprints

Box 25 Plutarch

Box 25 Polybius

Box 25 Presocratics

Box 25 Sextus Empiricus

Box 25 Sophocles

Box 25 Theocritus, Moschus, Musaeus

Box 25 Theophrastus (N)

Box 25 Thucydides

Subseries III.2: Greek Themes


Box 26 Byzantium

Box 26 Gnosticism

Box 26 Greek Art

Box 26 Greek Grammar and Syntax (R)

Box 26 Greek History

Box 26 Greek Law

Box 26 Greek Life (N)


Box 27 Greek Literature

Box 27 Greek Oratory (M)(N)

Box 27 Bibliographica

Box 27 Offprints

Box 27 Summaries of Book (N)

Box 27 Greek Philosophy

Box 27 Greek Prose Composition (N)

Box 27 Greek Religion


Box 28 Greek-Roman Music (M)

Box 28 Greek Verse (N)

Box 28 Koine (N)

Box 28 Lexica and Indices

Box 28 Linear B

Box 28 Modern Greek (C)

Box 28 Mythology

Box 28 Names

Box 28 Numismatics

Box 28 Oxford Classical Dictionary (M)(N)(C)

Box 28 Papyrology

Box 28 Papyrus

(with 4 water color drawings on 20th century papyri & 2 papyri stems)

Box 28 Rhetorici Graeci

Subseries III.3: Latin Authors


Box 29 A

Box 29 B

Box 29 C

Box 29 Caesar (N)

Box 29 Catullus (N) (C)

Box 29 Cicero (N)(M)

Box 29 G (C)


Box 30 H

Horace

Box 30 Carmina (N) (M)

Box 30 Iambi (C)

Box 30 Letters (N)

Box 30 Generalia and Sermones: Bibliographica (N) (C)

Box 30 Sermones - Notes on Text (N)

Juvenal

Box 30 Articles by Highet (M) (C)

Box 30 Catalogue of Books donated by Highet to Columbia University Libraries (C)


Box 31 General Lecture Notes (N)

Box 31 Notes on Individual Satires (N)


Box 46 Printed Materials: Dissertations and Articles


Box 47 Printed Materials: Dissertations and Articles


Box 31 Livy

Box 31 Lucan - Bibliographica

Box 31 Lucan - Text (N)

Box 31 Lucilius


Box 32 Lucretius and Epicurus (N) (C), 3 folders

Box 32 M

Box 32 N

Box 32 Ovid

Box 32 P

Box 32 Panegyrici

Box 32 Persius (C)


Box 33 Petronius - Bibliographica (C)

Box 33 Petronius - Text (M) (N)

Box 33 Pliny

Box 33 Propertius

Box 33 Quintilian (N), 2 folders

Box 33 R


Box 34 S

Box 34 Sallust

Box 34 Seneca

Box 34 Statius (N)

Box 34 Tacitus (N)

Box 34 Tibullus (M) (N) (C)

Vergil

Box 34 Bibliographies

Box 34 Bucolics

Box 34 Georgics


Box 35 Offprints

Box 35 Speeches and Narrative (N)

Box 35 Speeches - Offprints

Box 35 Speeches - Summaries of Articles (N)

Subseries III.4: Latin Themes


Box 36 Christian Latin (N)

Box 36 Collisive Alliteration (N)

(Two consonants "collide" when the same consonant ends one word and begins the next.)

Box 36 Colloquial Latin (N)

Box 36 Latin Composition (N) (C)

Box 36 Latin Linguistics (N)

Box 36 Latin Literature - History (N), 4 folders


Box 37 Latin Meters (N)

Box 37 Latin Style - Figures of Speech (N)

Box 37 Latin Style - Vocabulary (N) (C)

Latin Syntax

Box 37 General (N)

Box 37 Nom.; Adj.; Adv.; Conj; Prep. (N)

Box 37 Sentence Structure (N)

Box 37 Verbs (N)

Box 37 Middle and New Comedy (N), 2 folders


Box 38 Middle and New Comedy - Menander's The Curmudgeon (N) (C) (M), 3 folders

Box 38 Modern Latin

Box 38 Pompeii (N)

Box 38 Roman Art

Box 38 Roman Comedy - Plautus and Terence (N)


Box 39 Roman Comedy - Plautus and Terence (N), 4 folders

Box 39 Roman History


Box 40 Roman Law

Box 40 Roman Money

Roman Oratory

Box 40 General (N)

Box 40 Bibliographica (N)

Box 40 Correspondence - Oxford University Press (C)

Box 40 Offprints

Box 40 Summaries of Books and Articles; Texts (N)

Box 40 Roman Religion

Box 40 Roman Social Life

Box 40 Reman Satire (N) (C)

Box 40 Thesaurus Linguae Latinae - Correspondence (C), 1954-1968

Box 40 Translations (M) (C)

Subseries III.5: General Subject Files


Box 41 Ancient Medicine and Psychiatry

Box 41 Articles for Periodicals (M) (C)

Box 41 Articles, Stories, Ideas, Early Books (M) (C), 1943-1977

Box 41 Author and Publisher (C)

Box 41 Cassette Talks (C)

Box 41 China and the West

Box 41 Christianity

Box 41 Classical Societies and Propaganda (M) (C)

Box 41 Classical Tradition


Box 42 Computers

Box 42 Epigram (M) (C)

Box 42 Epigraphy

Box 42 Forms of Literature (N)

Box 42 Greek-Roman Education

Box 42 Greek Films

Box 42 Harpers Magazine (Reviews by Highet), 1952-1954

Box 42 Housman, A. E. (C)

Box 42 Humor and Eccentricity

Box 42 Ideas - Classical (N)

Box 42 Ideas - Non-classical

Box 42 Introduction to Classical Studies (N)

Box 42 Japan (C)


Box 43 Modern Oratory (M)

Box 43 New Essays (M) (C)

Box 43 Occult

Box 43 Oxford University Press (C), 1952-1956

Box 43 Paleography (N)

Box 43 Poems and Good Prose


Box 44 Politics and Law

Box 44 Psychology

Box 44 Puzzles (C)

Box 44 Reviews

Box 44 Rome and the Gods (N)

Box 44 Satire

Box 44 Slavery


Box 45 Stylistic Studies (N)

Box 45 Talks - Miscellaneous (M) (C)

Box 45 Textual Criticism (N)

Box 45 Uberlieferunggeschichte (N) (C)

Box 45 Utopia

Box 45 Works in Progress (M) (N)