Rhys Carpenter
Rhys Carpenter | |
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M.A. 1914)Columbia University (Ph.D., 1916) | |
Occupation(s) | professor, classical scholar, art historian, author |
Known for | Homeric studies |
Spouse | Eleanor Houston Hill (m. 1918) |
Rhys Carpenter (August 5, 1889 – January 2, 1980) was an American classical art historian and professor at Bryn Mawr College.
Carpenter was unconventional as a scholar. He analyzed Greek art from the standpoint of artistic production and behavior. He argued for dating the Greek alphabet to the eighth century B.C.
Early life and career
Carpenter was born in
He spent the year 1912–13 at the
By 1918 he was already a full professor at Bryn Mawr. In 1918 Carpenter married Eleanor Houston Hill. In 1926 Carpenter became professor at the
Retirement
Carpenter retired in 1955. In his retirement he held visiting professorships at the
Dr. Carpenter, one year before his death, was forced from his estate "Jerry Run" by the government so Marsh Creek State Park lake could be built.[4]
Death
He died in Devon, Pennsylvania in 1980.[5]
Legacy
Bryn Mawr College dedicated their newly built archaeology library in Carpenter's name and memory in 1997.[6]
Bibliography
- [bibliography to 1969]: Hesperia 38 no. 2 (1969) : 123–132.
- Greek Sculpture: a Critical Review. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960.
- and Ackerman, James. Art and Archaeology. New York: Prentice Hall, 1963.
- Humanistic Value of Archaeology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1933.
- The Esthetic Basis of the Greek Art of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1921, 2nd ed.: Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1959.
- Ancient Corinth: a guide to the excavations. Athens: Hestia, 1936.
- Art; a Bryn Mawr Symposium. Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1940.
- Discontinuity in Greek Civilization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966.
- Folk Tale: Fiction and Saga in the Homeric Epics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1946.
- The Greeks in Spain. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1925.
- Historical Aspects of the Fine Arts: Addresses by Rhys Carpenter [and others]. Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College, 1938.
- The Sun-Thief, and Other Poems. London: H. Milford, 1914.
Notes
- ^ Rhys Carpenter (1916). The Ethics of Euripides. Columbia University Press. pp. 43–.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
- ISBN 978-0-520-02808-1.
- ^ "Owners of Estate in Upper Uwchlan Township Fight Dam Project"". Philadelphia Inquirer. March 6, 1966.
- ^ Mellink, Machteld J. , Robert Whallon and Patty Jo Watson. 1980. "Necrology." American Journal of Archaeology 84.2:260-261. [1]
- ^ "Rhys Carpenter Library". brynmawr.edu. Archived from the original on April 8, 2009. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
References
- For Carpenter's full bibliography, see Hesperia 38 (1969) 123–32.
- For his obituary, see Machteld Mellink in American Journal of Archaeology 84, No. 2 (Apr., 1980), pp. 260–1.
- Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Research Guide to the History of Western Art. Sources of Information in the Humanities, no. 2. Chicago: American Library Association, 1982, p. 43.
- Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Modern Perspectives in Western Art History: An Anthology of 20th-Century Writings on the Visual Arts. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, p. 40.
- Medwid, Linda M. The Makers of Classical Archaeology: A Reference Work. New York: Humanity Books, 2000 pp. 48–51.
- Mabel Lang "Rhys Carpenter." American National Biography 4: 433–34.
- Mortimer Chambers "Rhys Carpenter." Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology. Nancy Thomson de Grummond, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996, pp. 245–46.
- [Obituary:] New York Times, January 4, 1980: 15.
External links
- Rhys Carpenter at the Database of Classical Scholars
- Breaking Ground, Breaking Tradition: Bryn Mawr and the First Generation of Women Archaeologists