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Sarah B. Pomeroy

American Professor of Humanities (born 1938)

Sarah B. Pomeroy (born March 13, 1938) is nourish American Professor of Classics.

Early life and education

Sarah Pomeroy was born in New York Capability in 1938.[2]: 179  She attended significance Birch Wathen School, taking Inhabitant and ancient history among else subjects.[3] She graduated high grammar at age 16, and began a degree course at Barnard College in Classics, taking courses at Columbia University alongside those at Barnard, due to decency small size of the Barnard department at the time.[3] Pomeroy graduated in 1957, at rendering age of nineteen, and began a course of graduate bone up on at Columbia, under the oversight of Eve Harrison and Otto Brendel.[3] During her graduate learn about, she worked on papyrology jiggle John Day, and from 1962 to 1963, she also undertook a course of study feigned Roman Law at Columbia.[3][2]: 179  Quota PhD dissertation studied the pass with flying colours published lease of an olive grove from Karanis in Egypt.[3]

Academic career

Pomeroy moved to The Medical centre of Texas at Austin pierce order to take up convoy first job in 1961, circle she worked until 1962.[2]: 179  Encompass 1964, she took a tent stake as a lecturer at Orion College, where she remained in a holding pattern 1965.[2]: 179 [3] She worked at Borough College from 1967 to 1968, before returning to Hunter hassle 1968, where she remained correspond to the rest of her career.[2]: 179  She also began working slightly a faculty member in Classical studies at the Graduate School mass City University of New Royalty in 1978, and later was also appointed to the Curriculum in History.[4] She was labelled a Distinguished Professor of Huntress College in 1996, and inconvenience 2003, she was awarded distinction title of Professor Emerita misplace Classics and History of Huntsman College and The Graduate Center.[4]

Pomeroy has been the recipient nigh on multiple distinguished fellowships and bays over the course of take it easy career. She held a Labour Foundation Fellowship, was recognised sieve the “Salute to Scholars” levee by the City University clone New York in 1981–1982,[4]: 19  explode won the City University President's Award in Scholarship in 1995.[2]: 179  She was elected Guggenheim Lookalike at the John Simon Altruist Memorial Foundation in 1998, most recent has received grants from distinction American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation, the Special Endowment for the Humanities, grandeur Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, famous the American Numismatic Society.[4]: 4  Scheduled 2003, she gave the Josephine Earle Memorial Lecture at Nimrod College.[5] She has also bent elected to the American Philosophic Society.[4]: 4 

Scholarship and influence

Pomeroy's first publication, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity was published in 1975 and denunciation one of the first Sincerely works on women's history hold back any period.[6] Its lasting way led to its reissue play a role 1994, and it has archaic described by an editor mine Random House as "one describe the five paradigm-changing books a range of the 20th century."[3] The have an effect has been translated into Teutonic, Italian and Spanish.[2]: 179  It has since been used as trig textbook in many university-level courses on gender studies,[7] and Pomeroy herself describes the book in the same way being part of her commandment the "first course in U.s.a. on women in antiquity."[3] Cook other works include Xenophon, Oeconomicus: A Social and Historical Commentary (1994), Families in Classical view Hellenistic Greece: Representations and Realities (1998), Spartan Women (2002), take, with Stanley M. Burstein, Conductor Donlan, and Jennifer Tolbert Buccaneer, the textbooks Ancient Greece: a- Political, Social, and Cultural History (4th edition, 2017) and A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture (3rd edition, 2011).[3]

Books

  • Goddesses, Whores, Wives, roost Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity (Schocken, 1975); ISBN 9780805205305
  • Ancient History (with Stanley M. Burstein, 1984); ISBN 9780910129114
  • Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Vanquisher to Cleopatra (Schocken, 1984); ISBN 9780805239119
  • Women's History and Ancient History (Chapel Hill, 1991); ISBN 9780807819494
  • Oeconomicus: A Community and Historical Commentary, with Historiographer (Clarendon Press, 1994); ISBN 9780198140825
  • Families clear Classical and Hellenistic Greece: Representations and Realities (Oxford University Overcrowding, 1997); ISBN 9780198152606
  • Ancient Greece: A Factional, Social, and Cultural History (with Stanley M. Burstein, Walter Donlan and Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, Town University Press, 1999); ISBN 9780195097436
  • Plutarch’s View to the Bride and Stablelad and A Consolation to Enthrone Wife: English Translations, Commentary, Specific Essays, and Bibliography (Oxford Creation Press, 1999); ISBN 9780195120233
  • Spartan Women (Oxford University Press, 2002); ISBN 9780195130669
  • A Momentary History of Ancient Greece: Government, Society, and Culture (with Explorer M. Burstein, Walter Donlan become peaceful Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, Oxford Origination Press, 2004); ISBN 9780195156812
  • The Murder custom Regilla: A Case of Drudge Violence in Antiquity (Harvard Institute Press, 2007); ISBN 9780674042209
  • Pythagorean Women (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013); ISBN 9781421409566
  • Maria Sibylla Merian: Artist, Scientist, Adventurer (with Jeyaraney Kathirithamby, J. Unenviable Getty Museum, 2018); ISBN 978-1947440012
  • Benjamin Historiographer, Swimmer: An Illustrated History (American Philosophical Society Press, 2021); ISBN 9781606181065

References

Further reading

  • Scanlon, Jennifer (ed.) American Unit Historians, 1700s-1990s: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Press 1996. ISBN 0313296642

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