[2] He spent most of his career as a Professor of Greek at Yale University and published primarily on the works of Homer.

[3][1] From 1887 to 1901 Seymour was chairman of the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens,[2] and was president of the Archaeological Institute of America from 1903.

He married Sarah Melissa Hitchcock (b. Sep. 27, 1846) of Burton, Ohio on July 2, 1874, daughter of Western Reserve College president Rev.

[2] They had three children; Elizabeth Day Seymour (b. Jan 21, 1876) was his eldest daughter, and she married John Angel (sculptor) in 1942.

[2] Other than his Selected Odes of Pindar (1882),[8] Seymour's published work was largely confined to the study of the Homeric poems,[3] viz: