Agnes Freda Isabel Kirsopp Lake Michels (July 31, 1909 – November 30, 1993, in

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) known as "Nan" to her friends, was a leading twentieth century scholar of Roman religion and daily life and a daughter of the Biblical scholar

Kirsopp Lake Kirsopp Lake (7 April 187210 November 1946) was an English New Testament scholar, Church historian, Greek Palaeographer, and Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School. He had an uncommon breadth of interests. His ma ...

(1872–1946). Michels earned her bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in Latin from

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, where she was also a member of the faculty from 1934 until 1975. After her retirement she frequently taught courses at Duke University as well as at the

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. She spent time in Rome as a Fellow of the American Academy in the company of

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in 1933. Michels was president of the American Philological Association for 1971–72. During her career, Roman religion was the focus of her research. It led to her landmark book, still consulted by scholars as a work of authority, ''The Calendar of the Roman Republic'' (Princeton, 1967). A series of lectures offered at

celebrates Michels and her work. Michels was married to physicist Walter Christian Michels (1906-1975). She is buried in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

Publications

*1935. ''Campana Supellex, the pottery deposit at Minturnae''. Ph.D. thesis, Bryn Mawr College. *1935. "The archaeological evidence for the 'Tuscan temple'". ''

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'' 12:89-149. *1937. "The supplicatio and Graecus Ritus." In ''Quantulacumque; studies presented to Kirsopp Lake by pupils, colleagues and friends'', 243–251. *1949. "The 'Calendar of Numa' and the Pre-Julian Calendar." ''

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'' 80:320–346. doi:10.2307/283524. *1953. "The Topography and Interpretation of the Lupercalia." ''

'' 84:35–59. doi:10.2307/283397. *1955. "Death and Two Poets." ''

'' 86:160-179. *1967. ''The Calendar of the Roman Republic''. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. *1997. "The Many Faces of Aeneas." ''

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'' 92.4:399-416.

Necrology

* Obituary by Russell T. Scott in ''Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Sources

* Biography and bibliography written by

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, "Agnes Kirsopp Michels and the Religio." ''Classical Journal'
92.4 (1997) 323-345.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Michels, Agnes Kirsopp Lake American classical scholars Women classical scholars 1909 births 1993 deaths Duke University faculty Bryn Mawr College alumni Classical scholars of Bryn Mawr College Classical scholars of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill