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Barbara McCarthy (25 September 1904 - 28 October 1988) was an American Classical philologist and academic.
Education
Barbara McCarthy completed her B.A. at Pembroke College, the private women’s college of Brown University, in 1925. Between 1925 and 1927 she was a postgraduate student at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. She was awarded an M.A. by the University of Missouri in 1927. She then moved to Yale where she completed her PhD in 1929 with a dissertation titled 'The originality of Lucian's Satiric Dialogues', under the supervision of Prof. A.M. Harmon. She was awarded the title of Doctor of Letters by Brown University in 1980.[1]
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References
- ^ Hallett, J.P. (2014) Eli’s Daughters: Female Classics Graduate Students at Yale, 1892–1941, in Wyles, R. and Hall, E. Women classical scholars: unsealing the fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly. Oxford 2016: 260-274.
- ^ McCarthy, Barbara P. (1932). "Line Omissions in Homeric Papyri since 1925". Classical Philology. 27 (2): 151–155.