Lily Ross Taylor

Lily Ross Taylor (Born in Alabama, 1886-November 18, 1969) developed an interest in Roman studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning an A.B. in 1906. She then went to Bryn Mawr College as a graduate student in 1906, receiving her Ph.D. in Latin in 1912. Her dissertation advisor was Tenney Frank. From 1912 until 1927, she taught at Vassar, and, in 1917, she became the first female Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.

In 1927, she became professor of Latin and chairman of the department at Bryn Mawr College. Her third book, "The Divinity of the Roman Emperor", "took her into a wider and more speculative area than her earlier studies, and also led to her subsequent research on the political structure of the Roman Republic."

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. She was killed by a hit-and-run driver on 18 November 1969.
* Source: "Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin" (Winter 1981), in turn adapted from the entry by Agnes Kirsopp Michels '30, Ph.D. 1934 in Barbara Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green (edd.), "Notable American Women: The Modern Period" (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1980).Posted at: http://www.brynmawr.edu/classics/taylor.html

Bibliography

Books

*"The Cults of Ostia" (Diss. Bryn Mawr) (= Bryn Mawr College Monograph Series , vol. 11). Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1912. Pp. vii + 98.
*"Local Cults in Etruria" (= Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome, vol. 2). Rome: American Academy in Rome, 1923. Pp. xi + 258 + fold-out map.
*"The Divinity of the Roman Emperor" (= Philological Monographs, vol. 1). Middletown, CT: American Philological Association, 1931. Pp. xv + 296.
*"Party Politics in the Age of Caesar" (= Sather Classical Lectures, vol. 22). Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1949.
*"The Voting Districts of the Roman Republic: The Thirty-five Urban and Rural Tribes" (= Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome, vol. 20) Rome: American Academy in Rome, 1960.
*"Roman Voting Assemblies: From the Hannibalic War to the Dictatorship of Caesar" (= Jerome Lectures, vol. 8). Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press 1966.

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. B. West).

"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. B. West).

"Tiberius' Refusals of Divine Honors," "Transactions of the American Philological Association" 60 (1929) 87-101. 1930.

"Alexander and the Serpent of Alexandria," "Classical Philology" 25.4 (1930) 375-378.

"Aniconic Worship among the Early Romans." In: George Depue Hadzsits (ed.), "Classical Studies in Honor of John C. Rolfe" (Philadelphia 1931) 305-314.

"Quirinius and the Census of Judaea," "American Journal of Philology" 54.2 (1933) 120-133.

"Artemis of Ephesus." In: F.J. Foakes-Jackson and Kirsop Lake (edd.), "The Beginnings of Christianity: Part I: The Acts of the Apostles. Vol. 5: Additional Notes to the Commentary". Edd. K. Lake and H. J. Cadbury (London 1933) 251-256.

"The Asiarchs." In: F.J. Foakes-Jackson and Kirsop Lake (edd.), "The Beginnings of Christianity: Part I: The Acts of the Apostles. Vol. 5: Additional Notes to the Commentary". Edd. K. Lake and H. J. Cadbury (London 1933) 256-262.

"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.

"M. Titius and the Syrian Command," "Journal of Roman Studies" 26.2 (1936) 161-173.

"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?" In: Robert P. Casey, Silva Lake, and Agnes K. Lake (edd.), "Quantulacumque. Studies Presented to Kirsopp Lake by Pupils, Colleagues and Friends" (London 1937) 253-264.

"Cicero's Aedileship," "American Journal of Philology" 60.2 (1939) 194-202.

General Index to Volumes I-V of: Tenney Frank et al. (edd.), "An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome, Vols. I-V." (Baltimore 1940), (with T. R. S. Broughton).

"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." In: "Hommages à Joseph Bidez et à Franz Cumont" (= Collection Latomus, vol. 2) (Bruxelles 1949) 323-330.

"The Order of the Two Consuls' Names in the Yearly Lists," "Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome" 19 (1949) 3-14 (with T. R. S. Broughton).

"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." In: P.R. Coleman et al. (edd.), "Studies in Roman Economic and Social History in Honor of A. C. Johnson" (Princeton 1951) 68-78.

"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. A. Holland).

"Lucretius on the Roman Theater." In: M. E. White (ed.), "Studies in Honour of Gilbert Norwood" (Toronto 1952) 147-155.

"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 & Rome", 2nd Series, 4.1 (1957) 10-18.

"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. in Cicero's Pro Plancio and Catullus 52," "Athenaeum" 42.1-4, New Series, (1964) 12-28.

"The Office of Nasica Recorded in Cicero, ad Atticum 2.1.9." In: Charles Henderson, Jr. (ed.), "Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies in Honor of Berthold Louis Ullman". 2 vols. (Roma 1964) 79-85.

"Cornelius Nepos and the Publication of Cicero's Letters to Atticus." In: M. Renard and R. Schilling (edd.), "Hommages à Jean Bayet" (= Collection Latomus 70) ( Bruxelles-Berchem 1964) 678-681. "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. Broughton).

"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. Scott).

Reviews

Review of: J. Carcopino, "Virgile et les Origines d' Ostie" (Paris 1919). In: "American Journal of Philology" 41.4 (1920) 396-400.

Review of: L. E. W. Adams, "A Study of the Commerce of Latium from the Early Iron Age through the Sixth Century B. C." (Northampton, Mass. 1921). In: "Classical Philology" 17.3 (1922) 267-268.

Review of: F. von Duhn, "Italische Graberkunde, Part 1" (Heidelberg 1924). In: "American Journal of Philology" 45.4 (1924) 391-395.

Review of: R. A. L. Fell, "Etruria and Rome" (Cambridge 1924). In: "Classical Philology" 20.1 (1925) 93-94.

Review of: F. Cumont, "After Life in Roman Paganism" (New Haven 1922). In: "Classical Philology" 20.1 (1925) 94-95.

Review of: M. della Corte, "Iuventus" (Arpino 1924). In: "American Journal of Archaeology" 29.2 (1925) 192-194.

Review of: J. Carcopino, "La Basilique Pythagoricienne de la Porte Majeure" (Paris 1927). In: "American Journal of Archaeology" 33.1 (1929)149-150.

Review of: C.C. Van Essen, "Did Orphic Influence on Etruscan Tomb Painting Exist?" (Amsterdam 1927). In: "American Journal of Archaeology" 33.1 (1929) 170-171.

Review of: J. Stroux and L. Wenger, "Die Augustus Inschrift auf dem Marktplatz von Kyrene" (Munich 1928). In: "Classical Philology" 25.4 (1930) 389-390.

Review of: R. Heinze, "Die Augusteische Kultur" (Leipzig and Berlin 1930). In: "Classical Philology" 26.4 (1931) 433. Review of: F. Poulsen, "Katalog des Etruskischen Museums (Helbig Museum) der Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek" (Copenhage 1927); "Bildertafeln des Etruskischen Museums der Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek" (Copenhagen 1928). In: "American Journal of Archaeology" 36.3 (1932) 375.

Review of: L. Vitali (ed.), "Fonti per la Storia della Religione Cyrenaica" (Padova 1932). In: "American Journal of Archaeology" 36.3 (1932) 376.

Review of: W. Hüttl, "Antoninus Pius, vol. II" (Prag 1933). In: "American Journal of Archaeology" 37.4 (1933) 648.

Review of: O. Immisch, W. Kolbe, W. Schadewaldt, H. Heiss, "Aus Roms Zeitwende: Von Wesen und Wirken des Augusteischen Geistes" (Leipzig 1931). In: "Classical Philology" 29.3 (1934) 270-271.

Review of: J. Gagé, "Recherches sur les jeux séculaires" (Paris 1934). In: "American Journal of Philology" 56.1 (1935) 83-85.

Review of: J. Johnson, "Excavations at Minturnae I: Monuments of the Republican Forum" (Philadelphia 1935). In: "American Journal of Archaeology" 40.2 (1936) 284-285.

Review of: F. Sauter, "Der römische Kaiserkult bei Martial und Statius" (Stuttgart-Berlin 1934). In: "American Journal of Philology" 58.1 (1937) 126.

Review of: C. W. McEwan, "The Oriental Origin of Hellenistic Kingship" (Chicago 1934). In: "American Journal of Archaeology" 41.1 (1937) 161.

Review of: "Opuscula Archaeologica I, fasc. 2" (Lund 1935). In: "American Journal of Archaeology" 41.3 (1937) 512-513.

Review of: "Papers presented to Sir Henry Stuart Jones, Journal of Roman Studies" 27.1 (1937). In: "American Journal of Philology" 59.1 (1938) 103-106.

Review of: B. Förtsch, "Die Politische Rolle der Frau in der Römischen Republik" (Stuttgart 1935). In: "Classical Philology" 33.1 (1938) 117-118.

Review of: G. H. Macurdy, "Vassal Queens and Some Contemporary Women of the Roman Empire" (Baltimore 1937). In: "American Journal of Archaeology" 43.1 (1939) 173.

Review of: V. Niebergall, "Griechische Religion und Mythologie in der ältesten Literatur der Römer" (Giessen 1937). In: "American Journal of Philology" 60.3 (1939) 393-394.

Review of: F. Altheim, "A History of Roman Religion" (tr. Harold Mattingly) (New York 1938). In: "American Journal of Archaeology" 43.3 (1939) 545-546.

Review of: Chandler Shaw, "Etruscan Perugia" (Baltimore 1939). In: "Classical Philology" 36.2 (1941) 206.

Review of: A. Degrassi (ed.), "Inscriptiones Italiae. Academiae Italicae consociatae ediderunt. Vol. XIII, Fasti et Elogia, fasc. 3, Elogia" (Rome 1937). In: "American Journal of Philology" 62.3 (1941) 379-380.

Review of: "Papers of the British School at Rome 14, New Series 1" (London 1938). In: "American Journal of Philology" 62.3 (1941) 380-381.

Review of: H. Strasburger, "Caesars Eintritt in die Geschichte" (Munich 1938). In: "Classical Philology" 36.4 (1941) 413-414.

Review of: E. C. Evans, "The Cults of the Sabine Territory" (Rome 1939). In: "Classical Philology" 36.4 (1941) 414-415.

Review of: Theodor Klauser and Adolf Rücker (edd.) "Pisciculi. Studien zur Religion und Kultur des Altertums. Franz Josef Dölger zum sechzigsten Geburtstage dargeboten von Freunden, Verehren und Schülern." Antike und Christentum, Ergänzungsband I (Münster in Westfalen, 1939). In: "American Journal of Archaeology" 46.1 (1942) 157.

Review of: R. O. Fink, A. S. Hoey, W. F. Snyder, "The Feriale Duranum" (New Haven 1940); Walter F. Snyder, "Public Anniversaries in the Roman Empire: The Epigraphical Evidence for their Observance in the First Three Centuries" (New Haven 1940). In: "American Journal of Archaeology" 46.2 (1942) 310-311.

Review of: I.S. Ryberg, "An Archaeological Record of Rome" (Philadelphia 1940). In: "American Historical Review" 47.2 (Jan., 1942) 310-311.

Review of: J. M. C. Toynbee, "Roman Medallions". (New York 1944). In: "American Historical Review" 51.1 (Oct., 1945) 103-104.

Review of: F. B. Marsh, "Modern Problems in the Ancient World" (Austin 1943). In: "The Classical Weekly" 39.15 (Feb. 18, 1946) 117-118. Review of: Santo Mazzarino, "Dalla Monarchia allo Stato Repubblicano" (Catania 1945). In: "American Journal of Archaeology" 53.4 (1949) 419-420.

Review of: Varii Auctores, "Les religions de l'Europe ancienne. Tome III: les religions Étrusque et Romaine, les religions des Celtes, des Germains, et des anciens Slaves" (Paris 1948). In: "American Historical Review" 55.3 (1950) 576-578.

Review of: K. Hanell, "Das altrömische eponyme Amt" (Lund 1946). In: "American Journal of Philology" 72.1 (1951) 69-72.

Review of: P. Meloni, "Servio Sulpicio Rufo e i suoi tempi: Studio biografico" (Sassari 1946). In: "Classical Philology" 46.2 (1951) 134.

Review of: J. Carcopino, "Cicero: the Secret of his Correspondence". 2 vols. (translated by E. O. Lorimer) (New Haven 1951). In: "American Historical Review" 57.2 (Jan., 1952) 414-416.

Review of: M. Gelzer, "Pompeius" (Munich 1949). "The Classical Weekly" 46.1 (Nov. 10. 1952) 23-24.

Review of: H. H. Scullard, "Roman Politics, 220-150 B. C." (Oxford 1951). In: "American Journal of Philology" 73.3 (1952) 302-306.

Review of W. F. Jashemski, "The Origins and History of the Proconsular and the Propraetorian Imperium to 27 B.C." (Chicago 1950). In: "American Journal of Archaeology" 57.2 (1953) 146-148.

Review of: G. De Sanctis, "Storia dei Romani. Vol. IV: La Fondazione dell' Impero. Parte II: vita e pensiero nell'età delle grandi conquiste, Tomo I, Text" (Firenze 1953). In: "American Journal of Philology" 76.1 (1955) 86-89.

Review of: R. E. Smith, "The Failure of the Roman Republic" (New York 1955). In: "American Historical Review" 62.1 (Oct., 1956) 107-108.

Review of: P. Fraccaro, "Opuscula I: Scritti di Carattere Generale; Studi Catoniani; I Processi Degli Scipioni" (Pavia 1956). In: "American Historical Review" 63.1 (Oct., 1957) 168.

Review of: P. Fraccaro, "Opuscula. Vol. II; Vol III, Part I, Testo; Part 2, Tavole". (Pavia 1957). In: "American Historical Review" 64.1 (Oct., 1958) 143.

Review of: "Papers Presented to Hugh Macilwain Last, JRS" 47 (1957), part 1. In: "American Journal of Philology" 80.1 (1959) 102-104.

Review of: A. Degrassi (ed.), "Inscriptiones Latinae Liberae Rei Publicae, fasc. prior" (Florence 1957). In: "Classical Philology" 54.2 (1959) 142-144.

Review of: E. Badian, "Foreign Clientelae (264-70 B.C.)" (Oxford 1958). In: "American Journal of Archaeology" 64.2 (1960) 210-211. Review of: K. Latte, "Römische Religionsgeschichte" (München 1960). In: "The Classical World" 54.7 (April 1961) 217-218.

Review of: M. Sordi, "I rapporti romanoceriti e l' origine della civitas sine suffragio" (Rome 1960). In: "American Journal of Philology" 82.4 (1961) 449-450. Review of: R. Lambrechts, "Essai sur les Magistratures des Républiques Étrusques" (Rome 1959). In: "American Journal of Archaeology" 65.4 (1961) 407-408.

Review of: D. R. Shackleton Bailey, "Towards a Text of Cicero: Ad Atticum" (Cambridge & Toronto 1960). In: "Phoenix" 15.4 (1961) 243-244.

Review of: J. H. Oliver, "Demokratia, the Gods, and the Free World" (Baltimore 1960). In: "Archaeology" 15.2 (June, 1962) 141-142.

Review of: J. P. V. D. Balsdon, "Roman Women. Their History and Habits" (London 1962). In: "Gnomon" 35 (1963) 840-841.

Review of: D. C. Earl, "The Political Thought of Sallust" (Cambridge 1961); A. Ernout "Pseudo-Salluste. Lettres à César, Invectives" (Paris, Collection Budé, 1962). In: "American Journal of Philology" 85.1 (1964) 94-96.

Review of: A. Degrassi, "Scritti Vari di Antichità. Raccolti da amici e allievi nel 75 compleanno dell'autore". 2 vols. (Rome 1962). In: "American Journal of Archaeology" 69.3 (1965) 288-289.

Review of: A. P. Frutaz et al., "Le Piante di Roma". 3 vols. (Rome 1962). In: "Classical Philology" 60.3 (1965) 220-222.

Review of: J. Hellegouarc'h, "Le vocabulaire latin des relations et des partis politiques sous la république" (Paris 1963). In: "American Journal of Philology" 86.3 (1965) 328-330.

Review of: D.R. Shackleton Bailey, "Cicero's Letters to Atticus.Vols. I & II" (Cambridge and New York 1965). In: "Classical Philology" 62.3 (1967) 196-199. Review of: A. Weische, "Studien zur politischen Sprache der römischen Republik" (Münster, Westfalen 1966). In: "American Journal of Philology" 88.4 (1967) 500.

Review of: R. E. Smith, "Cicero, the Statesman" (Cambridge 1966). In: "Political Science Quarterly" 83.1 (1968) 122-123.

Review of: H. Bengtson, "Grundriss der römischen Geschichte mit Quellenkunde, I: Republik und Kaiserzeit bis 264 n. Chr." (Munich 1967). In: "American Journal of Philology" 90.1 (1969) 78-81.

Review of: E.T. Salmon, "Samnium and the Samnites" (Cambridge 1967). In: "American Journal of Philology" 90.2 (1969) 225-227.

†Review of: D. R. Shackleton Bailey, "Cicero's Letters to Atticus. Vols. III-VI" (Cambridge 1968). In: "Classical Philology" 65.2 (1970) 111- 116.

Further reading

* See further T.R.S. Broughton's expert assessment of the life and work of Lily Ross Taylor in W.W. Briggs and W.M. Calder III (edd.), "Classical Scholarship: A Biographical Encyclopedia" (New York and London 1990) pp. 454-461 and in Ward W. Briggs, Jr. (ed.) "Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists" (Greenwood Press: Westport, CT and London, 1994) pp. 636-638.