Lily Ross Taylor

Lily Ross Taylor (born August 12, 1886 in Auburn (Alabama) , † November 18, 1969 in Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) ) was an American classical philologist and ancient historian .

Life

Lily Ross Taylor studied Roman history at the University of Wisconsin from 1902 to 1906 . In 1906 she began graduate studies at Bryn Mawr College / Pennsylvania , which she continued in 1909 and 1910 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and at the American School of Classical Studies in Rome . She received her PhD from Bryn Mawr College in 1912 on The Cults of Ostia. This was followed by teaching activities at Vassar College and in Rome. From 1927 to 1952 Lily Ross Taylor held the chair of Latin at Bryn Mawr College. In 1946 and 1947 she was the first Ms. Sather professor at the University of California . Since 1945 she was a member of the American Philosophical Society . In 1951 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . After her retirement she was professor at the American School of Classical Studies in Rome from 1952 to 1955. Since 1963 she has been a corresponding member of the British Academy and since 1965 of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Lily Ross Taylor died in a car accident in 1969 at the age of 83.

Fonts

Her writings include over 70 articles and 6 monographs.

• The Cults of Ostia. Bryn Mawr College Monograph Series, vol. 11. Bryn Mawr, PA 1912. (Diss. Bryn Mawr)
• Local Cults in Etruria. Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome, vol. 2. Rome 1923.
• The Divinity of the Roman Emperor. Philological Monographs, vol. 1. Middletown, CT 1931.
• Party Politics in the Age of Caesar. Sather Classical Lectures, vol. 22. Los Angeles 1949.
• The Voting Districts of the Roman Republic: The Thirty-five Urban and Rural Tribes. Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome, vol. 20. Rome 1960.
• Roman Voting Assemblies: From the Hannibalic War to the Dictatorship of Caesar. Jerome Lectures, vol. 8. Ann Arbor, Michigan 1966.

Awards

• Rome Prize for Classical Antiquity from the American Academy in Rome
• 1962 - Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Doctoral thesis by Lily Ross Taylor at archive.org (PDF; 5.9 MB).
2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed August 5, 2020 . 
3. ^ Lily Ross Taylor obituary by Kurt von Fritz in the 1971 yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).
4. ↑ http://www.apaclassics.org/research/goodwin/GOODWINPrevious.html

literature

• Ward W. Briggs (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Greenwood Press, Westport CT et al. 1994, ISBN 0-313-24560-6 , pp. 636-638.

Web links

• Entry on Lily Ross Taylor in the Database of Classical Scholars (English)
• History of the Latin Institute of Bryn Mawr College