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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. McCarthy completed her PhD at Yale University 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][2]
Career
Between 1929 and 1955 McCarthy was professor of Greek at Wellesley College[3]
Commemoration
- 24 April 2004: 'New Directions in Research and Teaching on Elementary Greek and Greek Prose Authors, Commemorating the One Hundredth Birthday of Barbara Philippa McCarthy, Ellen A. Kendall Professor of Greek, Wellesley College'. Panel of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States Spring Meeting.[4]
References
- ^ Hallett, Judith P. (2014). Eli’s Daughters: Female Classics Graduate Students at Yale, 1892–1941, in Wyles, Rosie and Hall, Edith (eds.) Women classical scholars: unsealing the fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly. Oxford 2016: 260-274. <isbn> ISBN 9780198725206</isbn>
- ^ Briggs, Ward W. (1994). Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Westport (Connecticut): Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 369. ISBN 9780313245602.
- ^ McCarthy, Barbara P. (1932). "Line Omissions in Homeric Papyri since 1925". Classical Philology. 27 (2): 151–155.
- ^ "Classical Association of the Atlantic States Program for the Spring Meeting, Sheraton Hotel and Towers, New York City, Friday and Saturday, April 23 and 24, 2004". The Classical World. 97 (2): 197–203. 2004.