At 11:14 PM -0400 7/20/97, Edgar M. Krentz wrote: >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 Žminence grise 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/