William C. Scott
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Description
classics and drama educator. Woodrow Wilson Dissertation fellow, 1963-1964, German Foreign Exchange Student grantee, 1962-1963, Dartmouth College Senior Faculty Fund grantee, 1984-1985.
Books
The Artistry of the Homeric Simile
Scott examines the nature of the simile in Homeric work and its inseparability from the oral tradition.
Musical Design in Sophoclean Theater
William C. Scott extends concepts set forth in his Goodwin Award-winning Musical Design in Aeschylean Theater (1984) by examining scansion patterns in the odes of the seven surviving Sophoclean tragedies. Analyzing the play as performed--its full expression in words, music, and dance--Scott finds that Sophocles' metrical patterns are not a secondary detail of the plays but a central feature of their musical organization.
Musical Design in Aeschylean Theater
This book by William C. Scott, emeritus professor of classics at Dartmouth College, is essential for those who want to see ancient plays produced—either physically in the theater or imaginatively in their own minds.
The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile
This work, by Dartmouth Professor Emeritus William Scott, centers on Homer's similes as compositions derived from, and dependent on, an oral tradition.