Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
Cynthia W. Shelmerdine (* 20th century) is an American classical philologist , archaeologist and mycenaeologist .
Shelmerdine studied classics at Bryn Mawr College (AB 1970), at the University of Cambridge (BA 1972, MA 1980) and at Harvard University (Ph.D. in Classical Philology 1977). She was then Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin (1977-1984), then Associate Professor (1984-1997) and Professor (1997-2008) and Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor of Classics (2002-2008). She has been Emerita there since 2008.
Shelmerdine researches the archeology of the Aegean Bronze Age and the language ( Linear B ), history and society of Mycenaean Greece. She is an expert in ceramics and history at the Iklaina Archaeological Project at the University of Missouri – St. Louis and the Athens Archaeological Society . She also participated in the excavation of Nichoria by the Minnesota Messenia Expedition and the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project .
Fonts (selection)
- with Carl A. Rubino (Ed.): Approaches to Homer. The University of Texas Press, Austin 1983.
- with Thomas G. Palaima , Petar Hr. Ilievski (Ed.): Studia Mycenaea (1988). Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Skopje 1989 (= Ziva Antika Monographies No. 7).
- (Ed.): The Cambridge companion to the Aegean Bronze Age. Cambridge 2008.
Web links
- Literature by and about Cynthia W. Shelmerdine in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Personal page , University of Texas at Austin (with CV and complete list of publications)
- Personal page , Archaeological Institute of America
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| SURNAME | Shelmerdine, Cynthia W. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wright Shelmerdine, Cynthia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American classical philologist, archaeologist and mycenaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |