Emily Vermeule

Emily Vermeule ( born August 11, 1928 in New York City; † February 6, 2001 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American Classical archaeologist.

Life

Vermeule studied Gräzistik and Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College ( BA 1950) and then went as a Fulbright Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Then continued her studies at Radcliffe College, where she (after one year at the University of Oxford) 1954 Master's degree earned. In 1956, she was at Bryn Mawr College for Ph.D. doctorate.

After studying Vermeule worked as a lecturer at Bryn Mawr College, and later at Wellesley College and Boston University. She also participated in excavations in Greece, Turkey, Libya and Cyprus. Her specialty was the Greek Bronze Age and the Mycenaean culture.

1970 Vermeule was when Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor at Harvard University called, where she taught classical philology and art history. Your reputation as a researcher and lecturer earned her national recognition: For the year 1974/1975 she was invited as Sather Professor at the University of California, Berkeley; in 1982, she held the Jefferson Lecture.

Since 1957, Vermeule was married to Cornelius C. Vermeule classical archaeologists. Your children are the literary historian Blakey Vermeule and legal scholar Adrian Vermeule.

Her research focused on the early Greek intellectual and cultural history and the relations of the Greek cities and tribes to the neighboring peoples.

Writings (selection )

• The Trojan War in Greek Art 1964
• Greece in the Bronze Age. 1964
• Introduction and Bibliography, in Martin Persson Nilsson: The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology. Berkley, 1972 ( reissue )
• With Florence Z. Wolsky: Toumba Tou Skourou. The Mound of Darkness. A Bronze Age Town on Morphou Bay in Cyprus. 1974
• Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry. Berkeley / Los Angeles 1979
• Vassos Karageorghis with: Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting. 1982