Emily Vermeule

Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule (born August 11, 1928 in New York City , † February 6, 2001 in Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American classical archaeologist .

Life

Vermeule, whose full name is Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule, studied Greek Studies and Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College ( BA 1950) and then went to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens as a Fulbright scholar . She then continued her studies at Radcliffe College , where she received (after a year at the University of Oxford ) a Masters degree in 1954 . In 1956 she received a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. PhD .

After graduation, Vermeule lectured at Bryn Mawr College, and later at Wellesley College and Boston University . In addition, she took part in excavations in Greece, Turkey, Libya and Cyprus - there from 1971 to 1974 in Toumba tou Skourou . Her specialty was the Greek Bronze Age and the Mycenaean culture .

In 1970, Vermeule was appointed Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Zemurray-Stone Radcliffe Professor at Harvard University , where she taught classical philology and art history . In 1971 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1972 to the American Philosophical Society . Since 1981 she was a corresponding member of the British Academy . Her reputation as a researcher and lecturer earned her national recognition: for 1974/1975 she was invited to the University of California, Berkeley as a Sather Professor ; in 1982 she gave the Jefferson Lecture .

Since 1957, Vermeule was married to the classical archaeologist Cornelius C. Vermeule . Her children are the literary historian Blakey Vermeule and the legal scholar Adrian Vermeule .

Her main research interests were the early Greek intellectual and cultural history and the relations between Greek cities and tribes and neighboring peoples.

Fonts (selection)

• The Trojan War in Greek Art . 1964
• Greece in the Bronze Age . 1964
• Introduction and Bibliography , in Martin Persson Nilsson : The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology . Berkley 1972 (reissue)
• Toumba tou Skourou. The Mound of Darkness. A Bronze Age Town on Morphou Bay in Cyprus , Cambridge 1974.
• with Florence Z. Wolsky: Toumba tou Skourou . The Mound of Darkness. A Bronze Age Town on Morphou Bay in Cyprus . 1974
• Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry . Berkeley / Los Angeles 1979
• with Vassos Karageorghis : Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting . 1982

Web links

• Estate in the Harvard University Library (English)
• Obituary of William H. Honan, New York Times, February 23, 2001 (English)
• Obituary in the Harvard Gazette, February 15, 2001 (English)

Remarks

1. ↑ Therefore she occasionally published under the name Emily T. Vermeule .
2. ^ Member History: Emily Townsend Vermeule. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 30, 2019 . 
3. ^ Fellows: Emily Vermeule. British Academy, accessed August 13, 2020 .