Grace Macurdy
Grace Harriet Macurdy (1866–1946) was an American classicist. She taught at Vassar College for 44 years, and worked mainly on royal women during the Hellenistic period.
Life
Macurdy was born in Maine, the daughter of Simon Angus Macurdy and Rebecca Thomson Macurdy.[1] She went to high school in Watertown, Massachusetts,[2] before studying at Radcliffe College, where she graduated in 1888.[1] She studied at the University of Berlin from 1899 to 1900, and gained her PhD from Columbia University in 1903.[1]
Macurdy first taught at the Cambridge School for Girls, and in 1893 moved to Vassar College. In 1920 she became chair of the department of Greek at Vassar, a post which she held until she retired in 1937.[3] In 1946 she was awarded the King's Medal for Service in the Cause of Freedom for her role in Greek and British war relief during the Second World War.[3] Macurdy died in 1946.[4]
Books
- The Chronology of the Extant Plays of Euripides (1903), (PhD dissertation). Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Troy and Paeonia, with glimpses of ancient Balkan history and religion. (1925) New York: Columbia University Press.
- Hellenistic queens: a study of woman-power in Macedonia, Seleucid Syria, and Ptolemaic Egypt. (1932) Johns Hopkins University Studies in Archaeology, no. 14. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press.
- Vassal-queens and some contemporary women in the Roman Empire. (1937) Johns Hopkins University Studies in Archaeology, no. 22. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press.
- The quality of mercy: the gentler virtues in Greek literature. (1940) New Haven: Yale University Press.
References
- 1 2 3 Pomeroy, Sarah. "Breaking Ground: Biography of Grace Macurdy" (PDF).
- ↑ Ascher, Leona. "Women in Classical Studies: Victorian and Modern". The Classical Journal. 68 (4): 356.
- 1 2 "A Documentary Chronicle of Vassar College: July 1946".
- ↑ "GRACE H. MACURDY, VASSAR PROFESSOR; Classical Scholar Who Taught Greek for 44 Years Before She Retired Is Dead". New York Times. 1946-10-24.