Earnest Cary

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Earnest Cary (born 25 February 1879) was an American classicist, historian, and translator of classical works.

Early life

He was born on 25 February 1879 in Beemer, Nebraska.{{cite web |title=Cary, Earnest (1879-) {{!}} ΟΜΗΡΟΣ |url=https://omiros.library.ucy.ac.cy/archive/item/1489?lang=en |website=omiros.library.ucy.ac.cy |publisher=University of Cyprus |access-date=18 March 2025}}

Education

He completed his bachelor's degree from Gates College in classics. He also received a AB and PhD from Harvard University.{{Cite web |title=Wayback Machine |url=https://legacy-www.math.harvard.edu/history/officers/officers.txt |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241213140145/https://legacy-www.math.harvard.edu/history/officers/officers.txt |archive-date=2024-12-13 |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=legacy-www.math.harvard.edu}}

His doctoral dissertation supervisor was John Williams White.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}

Career

He has served as teacher of classics at Harvard University.{{Cite web |title=LacusCurtius • Cassius Dio's Roman History |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/home.html |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=penelope.uchicago.edu}}

He has translated a number of classical works, most notably those of Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Cassius Dio.{{Cite web |title=LacusCurtius • Cassius Dio's Roman History |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/home.html |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=penelope.uchicago.edu}}

He has frequently collaborated with Herbert Baldwin Foster.{{Cite web |title=Roman history Dio Cassius; with an English translation by Earnest Cary and Herbert B. Foster. |url=https://primo.getty.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay/GETTY_ALMA51175546810001551/GRI |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=primo.getty.edu |language=en}}

Selected works

His notable books include:

Dio's Roman History (translated by Earnest Cary){{cite journal |last1=Lowe |first1=C. G. |title=Review of Dio's Roman History: With an English Translation |journal=Classical Philology |date=1931 |volume=26 |issue=1 |page=117 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/264702 |access-date=18 March 2025 |issn=0009-837X}}{{cite journal |last1=Misener |first1=Geneva |title=Review of Dio Cassius |journal=Classical Philology |date=1918 |volume=13 |issue=4 |page=420 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/262953 |issn=0009-837X}}
Roman Antiquities by Dionysius of Halicarnassus (translated by Earnest Cary){{cite journal |last1=McDonald |first1=A. H. |title=The Loeb Dionysius |journal=The Classical Review |date=1949 |volume=63 |issue=2 |pages=56–57 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/705675 |access-date=18 March 2025 |issn=0009-840X}}{{cite journal |last1=McDonald |first1=A. H. |title=The Loeb Dionysius Completed |journal=The Classical Review |date=1952 |volume=2 |issue=3/4 |pages=163–165 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/701890 |access-date=18 March 2025 |issn=0009-840X}}{{cite journal |last1=Ohl |first1=Raymond T. |title=Halicarnassian in Rome |journal=The Classical Journal |date=1950 |volume=45 |issue=8 |pages=406–408 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3293031 |access-date=18 March 2025 |issn=0009-8353}}