Lily Ross Taylor (August 12, 1886 – November 18, 1969) was an American academic and author, who in 1917 became the first female Fellow of the
American Academy in Rome.
Biography
Born in Auburn,
Alabama
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, Lily Ross Taylor developed an interest in Roman studies at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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, earning an A.B. in 1906. She went to
Bryn Mawr College
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as a graduate student that year, and received her
Ph.D. in Latin in 1912. Her dissertation advisor was
Tenney Frank. From 1912 until 1927, she taught at
Vassar, and, in 1917, she became the fourth female Fellow of the
American Academy in Rome.
In 1927, Taylor became a professor of Latin and the chairman of that department at Bryn Mawr. She rose to become dean of the graduate school there in 1942. That same year, she served as
president of the American Philological Association, and in 1947 as first female scientist she was named
Sather Professor in the
University of California
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. From 1943 to 1944, during
World War II
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, she was the principal social science analyst in the
Office of Strategic Services
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. In 1945, she was elected as a member of the
American Philosophical Society
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. She was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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in 1951.
Retiring from Bryn Mawr in 1952, she remained active as professor-in-charge of the Classical School of the
American Academy in Rome, and as a member at the
Institute for Advanced Study
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in
Princeton, New Jersey
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. That year, she received the Achievement Award from the
American Association of University Women
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.
She trained numerous graduate students while at Bryn Mawr, notably Irene Rosenzweig (1931),
Berthe Marti (1934),
Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels Agnes Freda Isabel Kirsopp Lake Michels (July 31, 1909 – November 30, 1993, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) known as "Nan" to her friends, was a leading twentieth century scholar of Roman religion and daily life and a daughter of the Biblical sch ...
(1934), and
Beryl Rawson
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(1961).
She was killed by a hit-and-run driver in
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
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, on November 18, 1969.
["Dr. Lily R. Taylor of Bryn Mawr, 83" ''New York Times'' November 20, 1969 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/11/20/79437400.pdf]
Bibliography
*''The Cults of Ostia'' (dissertation) (Bryn Mawr College Monograph Series, vol. 11).
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
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Bryn Mawr College
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, 1912. Pp. vii + 98.
*''Local Cults in Etruria'' (Papers and Monographs of the
American Academy in Rome, vol. 2).
Rome
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: American Academy in Rome, 1923. Pp. xi + 258 + fold-out map.
*''The Divinity of the Roman Emperor'' (Philological Monographs, vol. 1).
Middletown, Connecticut
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American Philological Association
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, 1931. Pp. xv + 296.
*''Party Politics in the Age of Caesar'' (Sather Classical Lectures, vol. 22).
Berkeley and
Los Angeles, California
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, 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: American Academy in Rome, 1960. Re-issued with new material authored by
Jerzy Linderski, 2013.
*''Roman Voting Assemblies: From the Hannibalic War to the Dictatorship of Caesar'' (Jerome Lectures, vol. 8).
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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University of Michigan Press
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, 1966.
Students
*1931 Irene Rosenzweig,
The ritual and cults of pre-Roman Iguvium'.
*1933 A. L. Abaecherli.
The institution of the imperial cult in the western provinces of the Roman empire'.
*1935. C.E. Goodfellow. Roman citizenship; a study of its territorial and numerical expansion from the earliest time to the death of Augustus.
T.R.S. Broughton}
*1934
A. Kirsopp Lake Michels. ''Campana supellex: the pottery deposit at Minturnae''.
*1934.
B. M. Marti. ''The adoration of the Roman emperor from Augustus to Charlemagne''.
*1937 R. E. Deutsch. ''The pattern of sound in Lucretius''.
*1939. S. M. Savage. ''The cults of ancient Trastevere''.
*1939 J. I. M. Tait. ''Philodemus' influence on the Latin poets''.
*1940 D. Tolles. ''The banquet-libations of the Greeks''.
*1940 H. E. Russell (later White). ''Insignia of office as rewards in the Roman Republic: Advancement in rank under the Roman republic as a reward for the soldier and the public prosecutor''.
*1951 M.W. Hoffman. ''The membership of the four major colleges of priests from 44 B.C. to 37 A.D.''
*1952 L. E. Hoy. ''Political influence in Roman prosecutions, 75 B.C. to 60 B.C.: with a listing of the trials''.
*1961
B. M. Rawson ''The names of children in Roman imperial epitaphs: a study of social conditions in the lower classes''.
Sources
*
Broughton, T.R.S., in Briggs, W.W., and W.M. Calder III (eds.), ''Classical Scholarship: A Biographical Encyclopedia'' (New York and London 1990) pp. 454–461; and in Briggs, Jr., Ward W. (ed.) ''Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists'' (
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and
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, 1994) pp. 636–638.
* ''Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin'' (Winter 1981), adapted from the entry by
Michels, Agnes Kirsopp in Sicherman, Barbara, and Carol Hurd Green (eds.), ''Notable American Women: The Modern Period'' (
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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, 1980)
* http://sofaarome.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/from-the-town-of-ciciliano-in-lazio-a-notable-tribute-to-lily-ross-taylor-faar18/
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