Louis Dyer

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Louis Dyer (1851-1908) was an American educator and author, born in Chicago, Ill. He graduated at Harvard in 1874, and at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1878. He was assistant professor of Greek in Harvard (1881-87), lecturer at Lowell Institute (1889) and at Balliol College, Oxford (1893-96), and acting professor of Greek in Cornell University (1895-96). Professor Dyer lectured before the Royal Institution in 1896 and in 1900 gave a series of lectures at the University of California which was repeated at many colleges and universities. He published a translation of Cossa's Introduction to the Study of Political Economy (1893), and:

• The Greek Question and Answer (1884)
• Studies of the Gods in Greece (1891)
• Oxford as it is (1902)
• Machiavelli and the Modern State (1904)