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Lillian B. Lawler
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Lillian B. Lawler, from the 1919 yearbook of the University of Pittsburgh
BornJune 30, 1898
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
DiedDecember 13, 1990 (aged 92)
Coralville, Iowa
Occupation(s)Classics scholar, college professor

Lillian B. Lawler (June 30, 1898 – December 13, 1990) was an American philologist and college professor. She taught Greek, Latin, and archaeology courses at Hunter College for thirty years, from 1929 to 1959, and published two books on dance in Ancient Greece.

Early life and education

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Lawler was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Thomas Joseph Lawler and Ellen Nuttridge Lawler.[1] Her father worked for Westinghouse.[2] She earned a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Pittsburgh in 1919,[3][4] a master's degree in Latin from the University of Iowa in 1921,[5] and a Ph.D. in education, also from Iowa,[6] with a doctoral dissertation titled "The Potential Remediability of Errors in English Spelling through the Study of High School Latin" (1925).[7]

Career

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Lawler taught at the University of Iowa during her graduate studies in the 1920s. From 1926 to 1929, she taught at the University of Kansas. She taught Greek, Latin, and archaeology classes at Hunter College from 1929 to 1959, and was recognized as an expert on dance in the literature and iconography of Ancient Greece.[8][9]

Lawler edited the study aid Auxilium Latinum from 1931 to 1968, and was editor-in-chief of The Classical Outlook from 1936 to 1957. From 1946 to 1949, she was president of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States.[6] From 1957 to 1964, she was vice-president of the American Classical League.[1]

Publications

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Lawler's scholarly papers appeared in academic journals including The Classical Journal,[10][11] Philological Quarterly,[12] and Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association.[13][14][15] Her 1964 book The Dance in Ancient Greece was well-reviewed in The Daily Telegraph, where critic A. V. Coton wrote that "Miss Lawler's history effortlessly presents a persuasive account of how and why the Greeks used dancing."[16]

  • "Consilium Malum" (1920, a playlet)[17]
  • "Cordelia, a Play for the Junior High School" (1924)[18]
  • Latin Playlets for High Schools (1925)
  • "The Maenads: A Contribution to the Study of the Dance in Ancient Greece" (1927)[19]
  • "The Easter Dances at Megara" (1927)[10]
  • Easy Latin Plays (1929)
  • "Two Portraits from Tertullian" (1929)[20]
  • The Latin Club (1929)[21]
  • "The Dance of the Owl and Its Significance in the History of Greek Religion and the Drama" (1939)[13]
  • Adventures in Language (1941, with Rollin Harvelle Tanner and Mary L. Riley)[22]
  • "Four Dancers In The Birds of Aristophanes" (1942)[23]
  • "The Dance of the Holy Birds" (1942)[24]
  • "The Dance of the Ancient Mariners" (1944)[25]
  • "'The Lily' in the Dance" (1944)[26]
  • "The 'Thracian Pig Dance'" (1945, with Alice E. Kober}[27]
  • "Portrait of a Dancer" (1946)[28]
  • "The Geranos Dance: A New Interpretation" (1946)[29]
  • "A Dancer's Trophy" (1947)[30]
  • "Orchêsis Kallinikos" (1948)[14]
  • "On Certain Homeric Epithets" (1948)[12]
  • "'Limewood' Cinesias and the Dithyrambic Dance" (1950)[31]
  • "Krêtikôs in the Greek Dance" (1951)[32]
  • "The Dance in Metaphor" (1951)[33]
  • "Dancing Herds of Animals" (1952)[11]
  • "Bee Dances and the 'Sacred Bees'" (1954)[34]
  • "Phora, Schêma, Deixis in the Greek Dance" (1954)[15]
  • The Dance in Ancient Greece (1964)[16]
  • The Dance of the Ancient Greek Theatre (1964)[35]

Personal life and legacy

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Lawler died in a nursing home in Coralville, Iowa, in 1990, at the age of 92.[1][6] The University of Pittsburgh awards a Lillian B. Lawler Fellowship to graduate students.[36]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Lillian Lawler, 92". Iowa City Press-Citizen. 1990-12-14. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-03-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Thomas J. Lawler, Rites in Cathedral for Ex-Westinghouse Man". Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph. 1943-01-16. p. 14. Retrieved 2023-03-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ University of Pittsburgh, The Owl (1919 yearbook): 84.
  4. ^ Hallam, Mary (1938-04-03). "Pitt Salutes Eight of its Alumnae Who Vindicate Co-Education". Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph. p. 61. Retrieved 2023-03-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Award Scholarship to Lillian Lawler; to Study in Rome". The Daily Times. 1925-05-12. p. 12. Retrieved 2023-03-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ a b c "Lawler, Lillian Beatrice". Database of Classical Scholars. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  7. ^ Lawler, Lillian B. (1925). The potential remediability of errors in English spelling through the study of high-school Latin ... Cedar Rapids, Ia.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ^ Macintosh, Fiona (2012-07-05). The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World: Responses to Greek and Roman Dance. Oxford University Press. pp. 89–91. ISBN 978-0-19-163438-3.
  9. ^ Smith, Tyler Jo (2014). Oakley, John (ed.). "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Red-Figure Komasts and the Performance Culture of Athens". Athenian Potters and Painters. 3. Oxbow Books: 231. ISBN 9781782976639.
  10. ^ a b Lawler, Lillian B. (October 1927). "The Easter Dances at Megara". The Classical Journal. 23 (1): 7–15.
  11. ^ a b Lawler, Lillian B. (1952). ""Dancing Herds of Animals"". The Classical Journal. 47 (8): 317–324. ISSN 0009-8353. JSTOR 3293059.
  12. ^ a b Lawler, Lillian B. "On Certain Homeric Epithets." Philological Quarterly 27 (1948): 80.
  13. ^ a b Lawler, Lillian B. (1939). "The Dance of the Owl and Its Significance in the History of Greek Religion and the Drama". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 70: 482–502. doi:10.2307/283103. ISSN 0065-9711. JSTOR 283103.
  14. ^ a b Lawler, Lillian B. (1948). "Orchêsis Kallinikos". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 79: 254–267. doi:10.2307/283364. ISSN 0065-9711. JSTOR 283364.
  15. ^ a b Lawler, Lillian B. (1954). "Phora, Schêma, Deixis in the Greek Dance". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 85: 148–158. doi:10.2307/283472. ISSN 0065-9711. JSTOR 283472.
  16. ^ a b Coton, A. V. (1964-08-20). "Hellenic Dances". The Daily Telegraph. p. 18. Retrieved 2023-03-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ Lawler, Lillian B. (February 16, 1920). "Consilium Malum". The Classical Weekly: 127. doi:10.2307/4387948. JSTOR 4387948.
  18. ^ Lawler, Lillian B. (1924). "Cordelia, a Play for the Junior High School". Latin Notes. 1 (8): 33–34.
  19. ^ Lawler, Lillian B. (1927). "The Maenads: A Contribution to the Study of the Dance in Ancient Greece". Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche. pp. 69–112.
  20. ^ Lawler, Lillian B. (1929). "Two Portraits from Tertullian". The Classical Journal. 25 (1): 19–23. ISSN 0009-8353. JSTOR 3289602.
  21. ^ Lawler, Lillian B. (1941). The Latin club. New York: American Classical League, Service Bureau, New York University.
  22. ^ Tanner, Rollin Harvelle; Riley, Mary L.; Lawler, Lillian B. (1941). Adventures in language. New York, Chicago etc.: Prentice-Hall, inc.
  23. ^ Lawler, Lillian B. (1942). "Four Dancers in the Birds of Aristophanes". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 73: 58–63. doi:10.2307/283537. ISSN 0065-9711. JSTOR 283537.
  24. ^ Lawler, Lillian B. (1942). "The Dance of the Holy Birds". The Classical Journal. 37 (6): 351–361. ISSN 0009-8353. JSTOR 3292318.
  25. ^ Lawler, Lillian B. (1944). "The Dance of the Ancient Mariners". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 75: 20–33. doi:10.2307/283307. ISSN 0065-9711. JSTOR 283307.
  26. ^ Lawler, Lillian B. (1944). ""The Lily" in the Dance". The American Journal of Philology. 65 (1): 75–80. doi:10.2307/291142. ISSN 0002-9475. JSTOR 291142.
  27. ^ Lawler, Lillian B.; Kober, Alice E. (April 1945). "The "Thracian Pig Dance"". Classical Philology. 40 (2): 98–107. doi:10.1086/362878. ISSN 0009-837X. S2CID 162241472.
  28. ^ Lawler, Lillian B. (1946). "Portrait of a Dancer". The Classical Journal. 41 (6): 241–247. ISSN 0009-8353. JSTOR 3291724.
  29. ^ Lawler, Lillian Brady (1946). "The Geranos Dance - A New Interpretation". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 77: 112–130. doi:10.2307/283449. ISSN 0065-9711. JSTOR 283449.
  30. ^ Lawler, Lillian B. (1947). "A Dancer's Trophy". The Classical Weekly. 41 (4): 50–52. doi:10.2307/4342366. ISSN 1940-641X. JSTOR 4342366.
  31. ^ Lawler, Lillian B. (1950). ""Limewood" Cinesias and the Dithyrambic Dance". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 81: 78–88. doi:10.2307/283571. ISSN 0065-9711. JSTOR 283571.
  32. ^ Lawler, Lillian B. (1951). "Krêtikôs in the Greek Dance". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 82: 62–70. doi:10.2307/283420. ISSN 0065-9711. JSTOR 283420.
  33. ^ Lawler, Lillian B. (1951). "The Dance in Metaphor". The Classical Journal. 46 (8): 383–391. ISSN 0009-8353. JSTOR 3292556.
  34. ^ Lawler, Lillian B. (1954). "Bee Dances and the "Sacred Bees"". The Classical Weekly. 47 (7): 103–106. doi:10.2307/4343554. ISSN 1940-641X. JSTOR 4343554.
  35. ^ Lawler, Lillian B. (1974). The dance of the ancient Greek theatre. University of Iowa monograph. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
  36. ^ "Lillian B. Lawler Fellowship Award". Department of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
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