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complied with Sather's wishes and divided her donation accordingly. $ 100,000 were allocated for each of the professorships. Although her husband had accumulated the initial donation, both the tower and the professorships were named after her. In 1914,
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and George Calhoun modified the nature of the appointment: henceforth, holders would give a specified number of lectures (initially eight, later six) on a unified topic. The lectures should then be published as a book by the
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in the United States, her lectures are described by Taplin as "somewhat of a milestone" in moving the subject closer to the mainstream of classical scholarship.
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and a fund for the study of law. Shortly before her death in 1911, she arranged for the funds to be consolidated; they were now to pay for what would become the
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states that the Sather Lectures and its associated publications "include many major works of classical scholarship". The 1969 Lectures, given by Hellenist
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Initially, holder of the professorship would spend one term at Berkeley, teaching a full programme of classes. In 1919, classicists
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Fifty Years of Sathers. The Sather Professorship of Classical Literature in the University of California, Berkeley 1913/4–1963/4
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The Sather Professorship has been held by numerous distinguished scholars including
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which included its own lavatory. The office has since been replaced by rooms in
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furnished with a dedicated library and portraits of past holders of the chair.
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and the establishment of two professorships: one in Classics and one in
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Wheeler Hall, where the Sather professor traditionally lectures
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University of California, Berkeley. Classics Department
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died, leaving a substantial fortune to his second wife
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Jane K. Sather Professorship of Classical Literature
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Sather Professor of Classical Literature

Sather Tower
University of California, Berkeley
endowed chair
classics
University of California, Berkeley
Jane K. Sather
Peder Sather
University of California Press
classicist
Oliver Taplin
Peder Sather
Jane K. Sather
University of California at Berkeley
Classics
Sather Tower
historiography
Regents of the University of California
Benjamin Ide Wheeler
archaeologist
John Myres

Ivan Mortimer Linforth
University of California Press
Wheeler Hall
Dwinelle Hall
Cyril Bailey
E. R. Dodds
Denys Page

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