Emily Vermeule

Emily Vermeule

Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule (New York City August 11 1928Cambridge, Massachusetts February 6 2001) was an American classical scholar and archaeologist.

She was an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr (1950), and earned a master's degree from Radcliffe (1954), and a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr (1956). As a Fulbright Scholar in 1950, she attended the American School of Classical Studies at Athens; as a Catherwood Fellow three years later, she studied at Oxford University. She married the archaeologist Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III in 1957. She is the mother of "Emily Dickinson Blake Vermeule" aka Blakey Vermeule, a professor of English at Stanford University and Adrian Vermeule, a law professor at Harvard Law School.

She became Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Zemurray-Stone Radcliffe Professor at Harvard University in 1970. In 1983 Vermeule received a Litt. D. from Bates College.

Vermeule was also a published poet, whose poems appeared in "The New Yorker" and "Poetry Magazine".

Works

*"The Trojan War in Greek Art" (1964)
*"Greece in the Bronze Age" (1966)
*"The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology" (1972) with Martin P. Nilsson
*"Toumba Tou Skourou. The Mound of Darkness. A Bronze Age Town on Morphou Bay in Cyprus" (1974) with Florence Z. Wolsky
*"Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry" (1979)
*"Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting" (1982) with Vassos Karageorghis

External links

* [http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/02.15/10-vermeule.html "Harvard Gazette":] obituary


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