Introduction

Biography

Elderkin was the hus­band of Kate Den­ny Mc­Knight.

The cou­ple was liv­ing in Cook Coun­ty, Il­li­nois, in 1900 & 1910. By 1912, he was in Prince­ton, New Jer­sey, where he was an as­sist­ant pro­fess­or and pre­cept­or in art and ar­cha­eo­lo­gy at Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty. He was at Prince­ton un­til at least 1942.

Works

• The Re­deem­er’s Praise, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: George D. El­der­kin, 1906)
• Aspects of the Speech in the Lat­er Greek Ep­ic, 1906
• Problems in Pe­ri­cle­an Build­ings, 1912
• The Fran­çois Cra­ter
• The Bull and the Dove at Cos­tig
• The Bee of Ar­te­mis
• Aspects of the Speech in the Lat­er Greek Ep­ic
• Antioch-on-the-Oron­tes
• Kantharos: Stu­dies in Dio­ny­si­ac and Kin­dred Cult
• The First Three Tem­ples at Del­phi: Their Re­li­gious and His­to­ric­al Sig­ni­fi­cance
• Related Re­li­gious Ideas of Del­phi, Ta­ra and Je­ru­sa­lem
• The Ro­man Ca­tho­lic Prob­lem
• Shield and Man­dor­la
• Zagreus in An­cient Basque Re­li­gion
• Mystic Al­lu­sions in the Frogs of Aris­to­pha­nes
• A Com­pa­ra­tive Stu­dy of Basque and Greek Vo­ca­bu­lar­ies