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Text and Interpretation of certain passages in the Agamemnon of 

 /Eschylus" (Transactions Amer. PJiilol. Assoc, Vol. 8, 1877). In 

 confronting the great difificuhies of the text of /Eschylus, Goodwin 

 was invariably hostile to the sciolist who complacently substitutes 

 his emendations for the words of the poet. " Est quaedam etiam 

 nesciendi ars et scientia " — an admonition applied far more rigor- 

 ously by the American scholar than by its German author. 



In common with many men of his position Goodwin turned at 

 times to editorial work of a humbler character. He reedited Felton's 

 editions of Isocrates' " Panegyricus " (1863) and the "Birds" 

 (1868) and "Clouds" (1870) of Aristophanes. One of the most 

 excellent books of its kind is the " Greek Reader" ( 1877, ^^^ in many 

 later editions), while his edition of the "Anabasis" (1885 ff.), pre- 

 pared in conjunction with one of his colleagues, Professor J. W. 

 White, is a model for its exact attention to grammatical details. 



It was Goodwin's good fortune to visit Greece as a young man 

 when fresh from his studies in Germany ; and it was he who was the 

 first director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 

 (1882-83), an appropriate honor for the foremost Greek scholar 

 of his time who was also one of the founders of the American 

 Institute of Archaeology. To his acquaintance with the land of 

 Greece, reinforcing his knowledge of Greek literature and history, 

 we owe the admirable paper on " The Battle of Salamis," first pub- 

 lished in 1885 and in another form in 1906. Goodwin's careful sift- 

 ing of the evidence determined the several localities in question and 

 convincingly described the dispositions and movements of the Greek 

 and barbarian forces in connection with that memorable contest. 

 His interest in the land of Greece was fittingly signalized by his 

 being named a knight of the Greek Order of the Redeemer. 



Such are the landmarks in the career of a scholar whose life was 

 spent in quiet devotion to high things, a life that made no parade 

 and sought none of the noisy ways of fame. Yet to few Americans 

 of our time has been given an ampler measure of the tribute of 

 recognition that great powers have been used efifectively and service- 

 ably. Goodwin's mastery of Greek syntax enfranchised in Great 

 Britain the Hellenic scholarship of the United States. The " Moods 



