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Barbara Philippa McCarthy (25 September 1904 - 28 October 1988) was an American Classical philologist and academic.

Education

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

From 1929 to 1970 McCarthy taught at Wellesley College, where she was Professor of Greek from 1929 to 1955, and Ellen A. Kendall Professor of Greek from 1955 to 1970. She was lecturer at Holy Cross College between 1970 and 1974, and visiting professor at Brandeis University in 1973.

In 1956-1957 McCarthy was the president of the Classical Association of New England, by which she was awarded the Barlow-Beach Award for Distinguished Service in 1978.^[2]

Publications

Articles:

McCarthy, Barbara P. (1931) 'Line omissions in Homeric papyri since 1925', Transactions of the American Philological Association 22: 151-155.
Hack R. K., Moser A. H., Hickman R. M., Pope H., Couch H. N., Zamiara A. M., Durham D. B.& McCarthy B. P. (1943), 'Comment and conjecture on Homer', The Classical World 36: 206-216.

Chapters in edited volumes:

McCarthy, Barbara P. (1936) 'The form of Varro's Menippean satire', in Robinson R. P. (ed.) Philological studies in honor of W. Miller. Columbia 1936.

Commemorations

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.^[3]

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>
^ ^a ^b Lefkowitz, Mary; Briggs, Ward W. (1994). Biographical dictionary of North American classicists. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. p. 379. ISBN 0313245606. OCLC 29952043.
^ "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): 201. 2004.

[1] 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>

[:0-2] Lefkowitz, Mary; Briggs, Ward W. (1994). Biographical dictionary of North American classicists. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. p. 379. ISBN 0313245606. OCLC 29952043.

[3] "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): 201. 2004.

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