Past Bryn Mawr College Faculty in Greek and Latin

A Selective List of Past Lumina, With Years of Service, and Some Representative Publications.
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) Bryn Mawr 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

Herbert Weir Smyth (1857-1937) Bryn Mawr faculty 1888-1901: Sounds and Inflections of Greek Dialects I: Ionic (1894), Greek Melic Poets (1900), [and after moving from Bryn Mawr to Harvard University] Aeschylean Tragedy (1924 Sather Lecture-the 2nd ever), Aeschylus Loeb, and of course Smyth's Greek Grammar (1916, with many reprints), is still in use today and will remain the standard for many years to come. In on-line version is now accessible through the Perseus Project. Bio/Bibliography: Ward W. Briggs, Jr. in BDNAC pp. 602-604

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Photo courtesy of the Bryn Mawr College Archives

Gonzalez Lodge (1863-1942) Bryn Mawr faculty 1889-1900: (Basil) Gildersleeve-Lodge Latin Grammar (1894, then 18 reprints through 1976), [and after moving from Bryn Mawr to Columbia Univ.] Lexicon Plautinum (1904-1933) Bio/Bibliography: Nancy A. Mavrogenes in CSBE 366-367

Wilmer Cave Wright (1868-1951) Bryn Mawr 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, courtesy of the Bryn Mawr College Archives

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Henry Nevill Sanders (1869-1943) Bryn Mawr faculty 1902-1935: The Cynegeticus of Xenophon (1913); grammatical and textual articles. Bio/Bibliography: Mabel L. Lang in BDNAC pp. 560-561

Arthur Leslie Wheeler (1871-1932) Bryn Mawr 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) Bryn Mawr 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.

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

Lily Ross Taylor (1886-1969) Bryn Mawr faculty 1927-1952: Party Politics in the Age of Caesar (1949 Sather); Voting Districts of the Roman Republic (1960); Roman Voting Assemblies (1966), and much, much else (see her short biography and complete bibliography)

Louise Adams Holland (1893-1990) Bryn Mawr 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

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T. Robert S. Broughton (1900-1993) Bryn Mawr 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 Univ. 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) Bryn Mawr faculty 1935-1946. After moving from Bryn Mawr 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

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Berthe Marti (1904-1995) Bryn Mawr 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)  Bryn Mawr 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), and much, much else (see a short biography and his complete bibliography)

Photo by Bern Schwartz, courtesy of the Bryn Mawr College Archives

Photo by Bern Schwartz, courtesy of the Bryn Mawr College Archives

Agnes Michels (1909-1993) Bryn Mawr 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

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