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As an undergraduate, Hammond received the Wendell Scholarship, awarded on the basis of academic achievement and contribution to the College community.

The Harvard Medal from the Harvard Alumni Association in 1987.

Honorary Doctor of Letters degree at the 1994 Harvard Commencement.

City State and World State (first published as "City-State and World State in Greek and Roman Political Theory Until Augustus").

He contributed extensively researched monographs on Harvard institutions including the stained glass in Memorial Hall, music at Commencement, Harvard china, Latin and Greek inscriptions found on the campus. After his retirement he served as Harvard Historian. Hammond returned to Harvard after his war years and continued teaching, eventually being named Harvard's Pope professor of the Latin language and literature from 1950 until his 1973 retirement.

For his work in the MFAA, Hammond received Italian and Dutch honors and the French Legion of Honor. In this role, he recovered and protected works of art which had been confiscated by the previous regimes. troops in northern Africa as they prepared to invade Sicily and southern Italy and subsequently traveled throughout Sicily, Italy, and later Germany as a Monuments officer. In May 1943, he was the first officer ordered to the field to serve in this position. Initially assigned as an intelligence officer in Italy, Hammond was reassigned to the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Office (MFAA) on the recommendation of the staff of the Roberts Commission. His experience with Italian studies and educational institutions also included two stretches as the director of Harvard's Villa I Tatti in Florence.ĭuring World War II, Hammond's services became invaluable.

Hammond directed classical studies at the American Academy in Rome from 1937 to 1939, as well as during the 1950s. He returned to Harvard in 1928 in a teaching position. An old man (Senex), father of wife of Menaechmus 1. A married lady (Matrona), wife of Menaechmus 1. He graduated with a bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1925, then studied at Oxford for three years, partially on a Rhodes Scholarship. Menaechmus 2, his twin (AKA Sosicles) Messenio, servant of Menaechmus 2.