Notable Former Faculty

Abbreviations:

CSBE = W.W. Briggs and W.M. Calder III (edd.), Classical Scholarship: A Biographical Encyclopedia (New York and London 1990)
BDNAC = Ward W. Briggs, Jr. (ed.) Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists (Greenwood Press: Westport, CT and London, 1994)

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Paul Shorey (1854-1934)

��Ӱֱ�� faculty 1885-1892, then moving to the University of Chicago, where he published Horace. Odes and Epodes (1898), Unity of Plato's Thought (1903), Plato Republic Loeb, What Plato Said (1933), and most of the 800+ other items in his bibliography.

Bio/Bibliography: E. Christian Kopff in CSBE pp. 447ff, id. in BDNAC pp. 582-584

Photo by The Studio of William Louis Roehne

Herbert Weir Smyth (1857-1937)

��Ӱֱ�� faculty 1888-1901: Sounds and Inflections of Greek Dialects I: Ionic (1894), Greek Melic Poets (1900), [and after moving from ��Ӱֱ�� to Harvard University] Aeschylean Tragedy (1924 Sather Lecture – the second ever), Aeschylus Loeb, and of course Smyth's Greek Grammar (1916, with many reprints), which is still in use today and will remain the standard for many years to come. An online version is now accessible through the Perseus Project.

Bio/Bibliography: Ward W. Briggs, Jr. in BDNAC pp. 602-604.

Gonzalez Lodge (1863-1942)

��Ӱֱ�� faculty 1889-1900: (Basil) Gildersleeve-Lodge Latin Grammar (1894, then 18 reprints through 1976), [and after moving from ��Ӱֱ�� to Columbia University] Lexicon Plautinum (1904-1933)

Bio/Bibliography: Nancy A. Mavrogenes in CSBE 366-367.

Wilmer Cave Wright (1868-1951)

��Ӱֱ�� faculty 1897-1933: Julian the Apostate Loeb (3 vols.), Philostratus and Eunapius: Lives of the Sophists Loeb

Bio/Bibliography: Mabel L. Lang in BDNAC pp. 726-727.

Photo by Mathilde Weil, platinum print, with monogram, gift of John A. Silver

Henry Nevill Sanders (1869-1943)

��Ӱֱ�� faculty 1902-1935: The Cynegeticus of Xenophon (1913); grammatical and textual articles.

Bio/Bibliography: Mabel L. Lang in BDNAC pp. 560-56.

Arthur Leslie Wheeler (1871-1932)

��Ӱֱ�� faculty 1900-1925: Ovid Tristia Loeb; [after moving to Princeton Univ.] Catullus and the Tradition of Ancient Poetry (1934), Plautus Epidicus (with G. Duckworth)

Bio/Bibliography: Ward W. Briggs, Jr. in BDNAC pp. 691-692

Tenney Frank (1876-1939)

��Ӱֱ�� faculty 1904-1919: Roman Imperialism (1914), [then after moving to Johns Hopkins] Economic History of Rome (1920), Life and Literature in the Roman Republic (Sather Lecture, 1930), An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome I and V (1933 & 1940)

Bio/Bibliography: T.R.S. Broughton in CSBE 68ff, Herbert W. Benario in BDNAC pp. 196-197, J. Linderski in American National Biography (New York 1999) VIII pp. 367-368.

Lily Ross Taylor (1886-1969)

Ph.D. 1912 and Professor of Latin at ��Ӱֱ�� 1927-1952. Party Politics in the Age of Caesar (1949 Sather); Voting Districts of the Roman Republic (1960); Roman Voting Assemblies (1966).

Lily Ross Taylor (1886-1969) developed an interest in Roman studies at the University of Wisconsin, and then came to ��Ӱֱ�� as a graduate student in 1906, receiving her Ph.D. in 1912. From 1912 until 1927, she taught at Vassar, and, in 1917, she became the first woman Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. In 1927, she became professor of Latin and chairman of the department at ��Ӱֱ��. Her third book, The Divinity of the Roman Emperor, took her into a wider and more speculative area than her earlier studies, and also led to her subsequent research on the political structure of the Roman Republic.

Lily Ross Taylor became Dean of the Graduate School at ��Ӱֱ�� in 1942 but continued to be very prominent in the Classics field--serving as President of the American Philological Association in 1942 and Sather Professor in the University of California in 1947--and beyond (in 1943-1944 she was Principal Social Science Analyst in the Office of Strategic Services). Retiring from ��Ӱֱ�� in 1952, she remained active as professor in charge of the Classical School of the American Academy in Rome, Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, visiting professor in various universities, and Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She was killed by a hit-and-run driver on 18 November 1969.

From ��Ӱֱ�� Alumnae Bulletin (Winter 1981), in turn adapted from the entry by Agnes Kirsopp Michels '30, Ph.D. 1934 in Barbara Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green (edd.), Notable American Women: The Modern Period (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1980). See further T.R.S. Broughton's expert assessment of the life and work of Lily Ross Taylor in W.W. Briggs and W.M. Calder III (edd.), Classical Scholarship: A Biographical Encyclopedia (New York and London 1990) pp. 454-461 and in Ward W. Briggs, Jr. (ed.) Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists (Greenwood Press: Westport, CT and London, 1994) pp. 636-638.

Photo of Lily Ross Taylor (left) and Beryl Rawson, by Peter Dechert

Louise Adams Holland (1893-1990)

��Ӱֱ�� visiting faculty between 1928-1955: The Faliscans in Prehistoric Times (1925); Janus and the Bridge (1961), Lucretius and the Transpadanes (1979).

Bio/Bibliography: T.R.S. Broughton in BDNAC pp. 287-289.

T. Robert S. Broughton (1900-1993)

��Ӱֱ�� faculty 1928-1965: "Roman Asia Minor", in Tenney Frank, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome IV (1938); Magistrates of the Roman Republic (1950-1986); [after retirement to University of North Carolina] Candidates Defeated in Roman Elections (1991).

Bio/Bibliography: Jerzy Linderski in BDNAC pp. 64-66; George W. Houston in J. Linderski (ed.), Imperium Sine Fine: T. Robert S. Broughton and the Roman Republic (1996) pp. 1-30, 35-42.

James Alister Cameron (1904-1987)

��Ӱֱ�� faculty 1935-1946. After moving from ��Ӱֱ�� to the University of Cincinnati, he published The Identity of Oedipus the King (New York 1968, 1983); Plato's Affair with Tragedy (Semple Lecture, Cincinnati 1978).

Bio/Bibliography: Mabel L. Lang in BDNAC pp. 80-81.

Berthe Marti (1904-1995)

��Ӱֱ�� faculty 1932-1963: edition of Arnulfus, Glossulae super Lucanum (1958), The Spanish College at Bologna (1963), editor of Lucian in Fondation Hardt Entretiens (1970).

Richmond Lattimore (1906-1984)

��Ӱֱ�� faculty 1935-1971: Themes in Greek and Latin Epitaphs (1942), Chicago Greek Tragedies (translator, 1947-1959), Iliad, Odyssey (translator, 1951 & 1967: much-read classic versions), The Odes of Pindar (translator, 1947).

Born in Paotingfu, China, on 6 May 1906, Richmond Lattimore graduated from Dartmouth in 1926 and received an A.B. from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar at Christ Church in 1932. He took his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1934. In 1935, Lattimore joined the ��Ӱֱ�� faculty as an Assistant Professor of Greek. He was appointed Associate Professor in 1941, and became Paul Shorey Professor of Greek in 1948. Between 1943 and 1946, Lattimore was absent from ��Ӱֱ��, serving as a lieutenant in the Navy. He was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Chicago in 1947 and at Columbia in 1948 and 1950. At Johns Hopkins in 1956, he was the Percy Turnbull Memorial Lecturer on Poetry. In 1961, he gave Lord Northcliffe Lectures upon invitation at University College of the University of London. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto in 1966, and at UCLA in 1974.

Widely honored as a scholar, poet, and translator of Greek literature, Lattimore was a recipient of a Rockefeller Post-war Fellowship in 1946, and a Fulbright Research Fellowship for study in Greece. Lattimore was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Philological Association, and the Archaeological Institute of America. In addition, he was a Fellow of the American Academy at Rome and an Honorary Student at Christ Church, Oxford.

The son of David and Margaret Barnes Lattimore, he married Alice Bockstahler in 1935, with whom he had two sons, Steven and Alexander. In 1984, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of American Poets and received the $10,000 annual Fellowship Award. Due to his death in February 1984, only $2500 was awarded.

Biographical sketch by Deborah E. Karmen. See further, M.L. Lang in Ward W. Briggs, Jr. (ed.) Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists (Greenwood Press: Westport, CT and London, 1994) 343-346.

Photo by Bern Schwartz, courtesy of the The Bern Schwartz Foundation

Agnes Michels (1909-1993)

��Ӱֱ�� faculty 1934-1975: Calendar of the Roman Republic (1967); numerous articles on Roman literature and religion.

Bio/Bibliography: Jerzy Linderski, Classical Journal 92.4 (1997) 323-34.

Photo by Bern Schwartz

Mabel Lang (1917-2010)

Professor Lang was raised in Hamilton, New York. She earned her A.B. from Cornell (1939) and her M.A. (1940) and Ph.D. (1943) from ��Ӱֱ��. She commenced teaching at ��Ӱֱ�� in 1943 and served on the faculty of the Greek Department for 45 years, before retiring in 1988.

Publications: The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia II, The Frescoes (1969); Herodotean Narrative and Discourse (1974); Graffiti and Dipinti [Athenian Agora 21] (1976); Ostraka [Athenian Agora 25] (1990).

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