Ione Mylonas Shear

Ione Mylonas Shear (born February 19, 1936 in Champaign (Illinois) , † January 15, 2005 in Princeton , New Jersey ) was an American classical archaeologist .

Ione Mylonas, daughter of archaeologist George E. Mylonas , grew up in St. Louis , Missouri , where her father taught as a professor. She studied at Wellesley College and Bryn Mawr College , where she received her PhD in 1968 under Machteld Mellink . For many years she dug under her father in Mycenae . She was married from 1959 to the archaeologist T. Leslie Shear, Jr. (* 1938), from 1968 to 1994 head of the excavations on the Agora of Athens , in which she participated from 1972 to 1993. Her daughter Julia L. Shear (* 1968) is also an archaeologist.

Her main area of ​​research was the Aegean Bronze Age . Since her dissertation, she has been particularly concerned with Mycenaean house architecture. Her research interests also focused on the connection between the Bronze Age culture and Homer, as well as royalty in Mycenaean society.

Publications (selection)

• Mycenaean domestic architecture . Dissertation Bryn Mawr Colleg 1968.
• The Panagia Houses at Mycenae . University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia 1987, ISBN 978-0-934718-84-4 .
• Tales of heroes. The origins of the Homeric texts . Caratzas, New York 2000, ISBN 0-89241-537-1 .
• Kingship in the Mycenaean world and its reflections in the oral tradition . INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia 2004, ISBN 1-931534-12-8 .

Web links

• Obituary from the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archeology at Bryn Mawr College