Dee L. Clayman is an American classical scholar and a professor of

Classics Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

at the

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. She is a pioneer in the effort to digitize the humanities and served as president of the

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Education

Clayman earned a bachelor’s degree in Greek with honors from

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial g ...

. She holds a MA in Latin and Greek as well as a Ph.D in Classical Studies, from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

Career

Clayman began her career in 1972 as an assistant professor at

Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls about 15,000 undergraduate and 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre campus. Being New York City's first publ ...

, ultimately rising to the position of Professor of Classics in 1982. Beginning in 1985, Clayman also served as Professor of Classics at the

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where she is Executive Officer of the PhD Program in Classics. Her areas of academic research interest include the

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, with specific emphasis on the work of

Callimachus Callimachus (; ) was an ancient Greek poet, scholar and librarian who was active in Alexandria during the 3rd century BC. A representative of Ancient Greek literature of the Hellenistic period, he wrote over 800 literary works in a wide variety ...

Theocritus Theocritus (; grc-gre, Θεόκριτος, ''Theokritos''; born c. 300 BC, died after 260 BC) was a Greek poet from Sicily and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry. Life Little is known of Theocritus beyond what can be inferred from hi ...

Apollonius of Rhodes Apollonius of Rhodes ( grc, Ἀπολλώνιος Ῥόδιος ''Apollṓnios Rhódios''; la, Apollonius Rhodius; fl. first half of 3rd century BC) was an ancient Greek author, best known for the ''Argonautica'', an epic poem about Jason and t ...

and the

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matists. An early adopter of using digital technology to explore the classics, Clayman is the recipient of 10 individual grants from the

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and various private foundations to support the development of an online database of classical bibliography. This effort, which attempts to catalog scholarly work about ancient Greek and Latin language, linguistics and history as well as Roman history, literature, and philosophy from the second millennium B.C. to roughly 500-800 A.D., has significantly expanded global access to a wide variety of research materials. The project was initially published in 1995 as a set of

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s and is now incorporated with the '' Année philologique''. In addition to her academic work, Clayman was the founding editor-in-chief of Oxford Bibliographies: Classics. She previously served as president of the Société internationale de bibliographie classique, and is past-president of the American Philological Association, now known as the

. Clayman is a member of the

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Princeton Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine ...

, New Jersey.

Selected works

Books

* ''Queen Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt'' * ''Timon of Philus: Pyrrhonism into Poetry'' * ''Callimachus’ Iambi''

Articles

* “Callimachus’ Doric Graces (15 G.-P. = AP 5.146)” * “Did Any Berenike Attend the Isthmian Games? A Literary Perspective on Posidippus 82 AB” * ''Database of Classical Bibliography'' * "Trends and Issues in Quantitative Stylistics.''"'' * "Time Series Analysis of Word Length in Oedipus the King," * "The Meaning of Corinna's ''Weroia''."

Awards

* Fellowship,

, 2010–11 * Senior Fellowship,

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, 2002-3 * Medal for Distinguished Service,

American Philological Association The Society for Classical Studies (SCS), formerly known as the American Philological Association (APA) is a non-profit North American scholarly organization devoted to all aspects of Greek and Roman civilization founded in 1869. It is the preemine ...

, 1999

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clayman, Dee L. Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Wellesley College alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni American scholars of ancient Greek philosophy City University of New York alumni Brooklyn College faculty 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women