The Martin Classical Lectures is a function of the Charles Beebe Martin Foundation established at Oberlin College in Ohio.
Charles Beebe Martin was a professor of Classics and classical archaeology at the College from 1880 to 1925. The foundation was set up to honor his memory.
Works produced by the foundation
Lectures given at the foundation are collected and presented in volumes. Dates given are those of publication.
Volumes published by Harvard University Press
Volume 1, Louis E. Lord (1931)
Volume 2 Aspects of Social Behavior in Ancient Rome, Tenney Frank (1932)
Volume 11 Greek personality in archaic sculpture, Georg Heinrich Karo (1948)
Volume 12 Thucydides and the world war, Louis E. Lord (1945)
Volume 13 Classical influences in Renaissance literature, Douglas Bush (1952)
Volume 14 Pindar and Aeschylus, John Huston Finley (1955)
Volume 15 Classics and Renaissance thought, Paul Oskar Kristeller (1955) and as Renaissance thought, the classic, scholastic and humanist strains (1961)
Volume 16 Ancient book illumination, Kurt Weitzmann (1959)
Volume 17 Boundaries of Dionysus; Athenian foundations for the theory of tragedy, Alfred Cary Schlesinger (1963)
Volume 18 Society and civilization in Greece and Rome, Victor Ehrenberg (1964)
Volume 19 Aristophanes and the comic hero, Cedric H. Whitman (1964)
Volume 20 Origin and early form of Greek tragedy, Gerald Else (1965)
