Classicist and ancient historian, born in Auburn, Alabama, USA. A student of Tenney Frank, she spent most of her teaching career at Bryn Mawr (192752). Both her teaching and her scholarship received many honours. Life magazine cited her as one of the country's great teachers, and her Voting Districts of the Roman Republic (1962) won the Goodwin Award of the American Philological Association. Her seven books and more than 70 articles focused on Roman politics and political institutions, including the cults of Ostia and Etruria. Her Divinity of the Roman Empire (1931) was the first extensive study of that subject and remains a classic. At the time of her death in a car accident at age 83, she was working on a study of the Roman Senate.
Lily Ross Taylor (Born in Alabama, 1886-November 18, 1969) developed an interest in Roman studies at the University of Wisconsin, earning an A.B.
In 1927, she became professor of Latin and chairman of the department at Bryn Mawr College.
Lily Ross Taylor became Dean of the Graduate School at Bryn Mawr in 1942 but continued to be very prominent in the Classics field-serving as President of the American Philological Association in 1942 and Sather Professor in the University of California in 1947-and beyond (in 1943-1944 she was Principal Social Science Analyst in the Office of Strategic Services).
Retiring from Bryn Mawr in 1952, she remained active as professor in charge of the Classical School of the American Academy in Rome, Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, visiting professor in various universities, and Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Posted at: http://www.brynmawr.edu/classics/taylor.html
Bibliography
Books
The Cults of Ostia (Diss.
Local Cults in Etruria (= Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome, vol.
The Divinity of the Roman Emperor (= Philological Monographs, vol.
Party Politics in the Age of Caesar (= Sather Classical Lectures, vol.
The Voting Districts of the Roman Republic: The Thirty-five Urban and Rural Tribes (= Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome, vol.
Roman Voting Assemblies: From the Hannibalic War to the Dictatorship of Caesar (= Jerome Lectures, vol.
Articles
"Augustales, Seviri Augustales, and Seviri: a Chronological Study," Transactions of the American Philological Association 45 (1914) 231-253.
"Livy and the Name Augustus," Classical Review 32.7&8 (1918) 158-161.
"The Site of Lucus Feroniae," Journal of Roman Studies 10 (1920) 29-36.
"The Worship of Augustus in Italy during his Lifetime," Transactions of the American Philological Association 51 (1920) 116-133.
"The Latina colonia of Livy XL, 43," Classical Philology 16.1 (1921) 27-33.
"The Altar of Manlius in the Lateran," American Journal of Archaeology 25.4 (1921) 387-395.
"Labienus and the Status of the Picene Town Cingulum," Classical Review 35.7&8 (1921) 158-159.
"Seviri Equitum Romanorum and Municipal Seviri: A Study in Pre-military Training Among the Romans," Journal of Roman Studies 14 (1924) 158-171.
"Horace's Equestrian Career," American Journal of Philology 46.2 (1925) 161-170.
"The Mother of the Lares," American Journal of Archaeology 29.3 (1925) 299-313.
"The Euryclids in Latin Inscriptions from Corinth," American Journal of Archaeology 30.4 (1926) 389-400 (with A.
"The Proskynesis and the Hellenistic Ruler Cult," Journal of Hellenic Studies 47.1 (1927) 53-62.
"The Cult of Alexander at Alexandria," Classical Philology 22.2 (1927) 162-169.
"The Daimon of the Persian King," Journal of Hellenic Studies 48.1 (1928) 6.
"Latin Elegiacs from Corinth," American Journal of Archaeology 32.1 (1928) 9-22 (with A.
"Tiberius' Refusals of Divine Honors," Transactions of the American Philological Association 60 (1929) 87-101.
"Alexander and the Serpent of Alexandria," Classical Philology 25.4 (1930) 375-378.
"Aniconic Worship among the Early Romans."
"Quirinius and the Census of Judaea," American Journal of Philology 54.2 (1933) 120-133.
"Artemis of Ephesus."
"The Asiarchs."
"New Light on the History of the Secular Games," American Journal of Philology 55.2 (1934) 101-120.
"Varro's De gente populi Romani," Classical Philology 29.3 (1934) 221-229.
"The Sellisternium and the Theatrical Pompa," Classical Philology 30.2 (1935) 122-130.
"Seats and Peplos on the Parthenon Frieze," American Journal of Archaeology 40.1 (1936) 121.
"The Publii Lucilii Gamalae of Ostia," American Journal of Philology 57.2 (1936) 183-189.
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"Recenti Studi Americani Sulla Religione Romana," Gli Studi Romani nel Mondo 3 (1936) 3-19.
"Tiberius' Ovatio and the Ara Numinis Augusti," American Journal of Philology 58.1 (1937) 185-193.
"On the Chronology of Cicero's Letters to Atticus, Book XIII," Classical Philology 32.3 (1937) 228-240.
"The Opportunies for Dramatic Performances in the Time of Plautus and Terence," Transactions of the American Philological Association 68 (1937) 284-304.
"A Sellisternium on the Parthenon Frieze?"
"Cicero's Aedileship," American Journal of Philology 60.2 (1939) 194-202.
General Index to Volumes I-V of: Tenney Frank et al.
"Caesar's Early Career," Classical Philology 36.2 (1941) 113-132.
"Caesar's Colleagues in the Pontifical College," American Journal of Philology 63.4 (1942) 385-412.
"The Election of the Pontifex Maximus in the Late Republic," Classical Philology 37.4 (1942) 421-424.
"Caesar and the Roman Nobility," Transactions of the American Philological Association 73 (1942) 1-24.
"Symbols of the Augurate on Coins of the Caecilii Metelli," American Journal of Archaeology 48.4 (1944) 352-356.
"The Date of the Capitoline Fasti," Classical Philology 41.1 (1946) 1-11.
"On the Chronology of Cicero's Letters of 56-55 B.C.," Classical Philology 44.4 (1949) 217-221.
"Foreign Groups in Roman Politics of the Late Republic."
"The Order of the Two Consuls' Names in the Yearly Lists," Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 19 (1949) 3-14 (with T.
"The Date and the Meaning of the Vettius Affair," Historia 1 (1950) 45-51.
"Degrassi's Edition of the Consular and Triumphal Fasti," Classical Philology 45.2 (1950) 84-95.
"Annals of the Roman Consulship on the Arch of Augustus," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 94.6 (1950) 511-516.
"New Indications of Augustan Editing in the Capitoline Fasti," Classical Philology 46.2 (1951) 73-80.
"On the Chronology of Caesar's First Consulship," American Journal of Philology 72.3 (1951) 254-268.
"Caesar's Agrarian Laws and his Municipal Policy."
"Objectives of the Graduate School," Journal of Higher Education 23.1 (1952) 18-23.
"Janus and the Fasti," Classical Philology 47.3 (1952) 137-142 (with L.
"Lucretius on the Roman Theater."
"The Four Urban Tribes and the Four Regions of Ancient Rome," Rendiconti Pontificia Accademia romana di archeologia 27 (1952-1954) 225-238.
"On the Date of Ad Atticum 2.24," Classical Quarterly, New Series, 4.3&4 (1954) 181-182.
"Trebula Suffenas and the Plautii Silvani," Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 24 (1956) 9-30.
"The Rise of Julius Caesar," Greece &
"The Centuriate Assembly before and after the Reform," American Journal of Philology 78.4 (1957) 337-354.
"In Praise of Curiosity," Boston University Graduate Journal 8.2 (1959) 35-43.
"Freedmen and Freeborn in the Epitaphs of Imperial Rome," American Journal of Philology 82.2 (1961) 113-132.
"The Corrector of the Codex of Cicero's De Republica," American Journal of Philology 82.4 (1961) 337-345.
"Forerunners of the Gracchi," Journal of Roman Studies 52.1&2 (1962) 19-27.
"On Length of Lines in the Tradition of the De Republica," American Journal of Philology 84.1 (1963) 66-67.
"Was Tiberius Gracchus' Last Assembly Electoral or Legislative?," Athenaeum 41.1-2, New Series, (1963) 51-69.
"Magistrates of 55 B.C.
"The Office of Nasica Recorded in Cicero, ad Atticum 2.1.9."
"Cornelius Nepos and the Publication of Cicero's Letters to Atticus."
"Appian and Plutarch on Tiberius Gracchus' Last Assembly," Athenaeum 44.3-4, New Series, (1966) 238-250.
"The Order of the Consuls' Names in Official Republican Lists," Historia 17.2 (1968) 166-172 (with T.R.S.
"The Dating of Major Legislation and Elections in Caesar's First Consulship," Historia 17.2 (1968) 178-193.
"Republican and Augustan Writers Enrolled in the Equestrian Centuries," Transactions of the American Philological Association 99 (1968) 469-486.
†"Seating Space in the Roman Senate and the Senatores Pedarii," Transactions of the American Philological Association 100 (1969) 529-582 (with Russell T.
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