__NOTOC__ Darrell Arlynn Amyx (2 April 1911 – 10 January 1997) was an American

classical archaeologist Classical archaeology is the archaeological investigation of the Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Nineteenth-century archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann were drawn to study the societies they had read about i ...

. His principal field of study was the archaic pottery of

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. Complementing the pioneering work of

John Beazley Sir John Davidson Beazley, (; 13 September 1885 – 6 May 1970) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the U ...

and

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, Amyx applied stylistic analysis to the work of previously unnamed and unstudied Corinthian painters, discerning many otherwise forgotten "hands". Born in

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, Amyx studied classics at

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, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1930. He pursued further studies at the

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; earning first a master's degree in Latin in 1932 and later a Ph.D. in Latin and classical archaeology in 1937. He then studied in Greece as a

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. He later was the recipient of two

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s and four grants from the

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. In 1946 he joined the faculty at Berkeley where he taught until his retirement in 1978. In addition to teaching classes at Berkeley he served variously as the art department's chair, assistant dean of the College of Letters and Science, and curator of classical art in the University Art Museum as well as the

Lowie Museum of Anthropology The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (formerly the Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology) is an anthropology museum located in Berkeley, California, on the University of California, Berkeley, campus. History Founded in 1901 under the pat ...

. He died after a long illness in 1997 at the age of 85.

Published works

*''An Amphora with A Price Inscription in the Hearst Collection at San Simeon''. Berkeley 1941 *''Echoes from Olympus: Reflections of Divinity into Small Scale Classical art''. Berkeley 1974 (with Barbara A. Forbes (ed.)) *''Archaic Corinthian Pottery and the Anaploga Well''. Princeton, NJ 1975, (with Patricia Lawrence) *''Corinthian Vase Painting of the Archaic Period''. 3 vols. Berkeley 1988, *''Studies in Archaic Corinthian Vase Painting''. Princeton, NJ 1996, (with Patricia Lawrence)

Secondary literature

*Mario A. Del Chiaro (ed.): ''Corinthiaca. Studies in honor of Darrell A. Amyx'', Columbia, Missouri 1986, (with bibliography). *Evelyn E. Bell, Barbara A. Forbes: "Darrell Arlynn Amyx, 1911–1997". In ''American Journal of Archaeology'' 102 (1998) 179-180. *Evelyn E. Bell, Barbara A. Forbes: "Darrell A. Amyx". In ''Gnomon'' 70 (1998) 575-576.

References

External links

Dictionary of Art Historians

Scholars of ancient Greek pottery 1911 births 1997 deaths Stanford University alumni UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni People from Exeter, California {{US-archaeologist-stub