An Old Author in the New World: Terence, Samuel Melyen, and the Boston Latin School c. 1700

Theodore R.  Delwiche

doi:10.1162/tneq_a_00735

An Old Author in the New World: Terence, Samuel Melyen, and the Boston Latin School c. 1700

Theodore R. Delwiche

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This article examines the fine-grained practice of a classical education at seventeenth-century Boston Latin School. Building off wider early modern European practices, schoolboy and schoolmaster in Boston adapted Roman authors like Terence and Cicero to both pious and practical ends.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	263-292
Number of pages	30
Journal	The New England Quarterly
Volume	92
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00735
Publication status	Published - Aug-2019
Externally published	Yes

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