Amy Marjorie Dale

Amy Marjorie Dale FBA (born January 15, 1901 in West Bridgford , Nottingham , † February 4, 1967 in London ) was a British Graecist .

Amy Marjorie Dale studied Classics at Somerville College , Oxford. The subsequent postgraduate studies led her to Ludwig Radermacher at the University of Vienna . From 1927 to 1929 she had her first job at Westfield College of the University of London , another point on the Lady Margaret Hall , Oxford followed. From there she went to Lund University to study with Albert Wifstrand for a year . During the Second World War (1939) she did classified information in the Foreign Ministry and in her free time worked on the translation of Aeschylus' Agamemnon by Eduard Fraenkel . In 1944 she married TBL Webster , who was employed in the same department of the State Department. After the war she went with him to Manchester, where he held a professorship in Greek philology. When he received the Chair of Greek at University College London in 1948, she was offered a lectureship at Birkbeck College , which she accepted. In 1952 she was appointed Reader in Classics and in 1957 a Fellow of the British Academy . In 1959 she was given the honor of a personal chair in Greek. In 1963 she retired. In 1962 she was made an honorary fellow of Somerville College, in 1963 Professor Emeritus in Greek at the University of London.

Her research focus was on Greek tragedy , particularly Euripides and the metrics of choral songs and lyrical parts of tragedy, an area in which she was to remain a leader up to the present day.

Fonts (selection)

Font directory

• Bibliography of the writings of AM Dale, in: Collected Papers. Edited by TBL Webster and EG Turner . Cambridge 1969 (see below), 295-296.

Fonts

• The Lyric Meters of Greek Drama. Cambridge 1948, second edition posthumously 1968.
• Euripides, Alcestis. Edited with introduction and commentary. Oxford 1954.
• Words, Music, and Dance. Inaugural Lecture at Birkbeck College. London 1960.
• Euripides, Helen. Edited with introduction and commentary. Oxford 1967.
• Collected papers. Edited by TBL Webster and EG Turner. Cambridge 1969, (excerpts online) - Posthumously published, also contains unpublished articles.
• Metrical Analyzes of tragic choruses I – III. London 1971–1983 (vol. 1, BICS Suppl. XXI, 1, London 1971; vol. 2 BICS Suppl. XXI, 2, London 1981; vol. 3 BICS Suppl. XXI, 3, London 1983) - published posthumously.

literature

• Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram : Amy Marjorie Dale 1902-1967 , in: Proceedings of the British Academy 53, 1967, 423-436, (online) . - Detailed appreciation of life and writings.
• Eric Gardner Turner : Miss AM Dale (Obituary notice from The Times, February 7, 1967) , in: Collected Papers. Edited by TBL Webster and EG Turner. Cambridge 1969 (see below), IX-X, (online) .
• William M. Calder III , DJ Kramer: An Introductory Bibliography of Classical Scholarship Chiefly in the XIXth and XXth Centuries. Hildesheim-Zurich-New York 1992, 142 note 1109; 336 note 2567.

Web links

• Entry in Aristarchus: Catalogus Philologorum Classicorum (project by Franco Montanari , University of Genoa )
• Entry on the British Academy website
• Roll of Honor , Bletchley Park