The case for classics - Stanford 125

Eunice Cooksey as Antigone in the Classics Department's 1902 production.

Insights on past and present stream from a founding Stanford department

Stanford was abuzz in April 1902 with a new and ambitious project out of its Classics Department. Professors Augustus Taber Murray and Henry Rushton Fairclough were putting on Sophocles’ Antigone in the West Coast’s first production of a Greek-language play.

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