Erika Simon (27 June 1927 – 15 February 2019) was a German scholar of
classical archaeology and
professor emeritus
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of the
University of Würzburg
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. She was elected to the
American Philosophical Society
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in 2002. Simon died in February 2019 at the age of 91.
[Tonio Hölscher: ''Die Antike als offene Zone. Brückenbauerin: Zum Tod der Archäologin Erika Simon.'' In: ]Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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, 20. Februar 2019 (Druckausgabe)
Selected writings
* 1968 ''Ara Pacis Augustae''
* 1969 ''The Gods of the Greek ''(Hirmer, Munich)
* 1983 ''Festivals of Attica: an Archaeological Commentary''
* 2006 ''The Religion of the Etruscans'' (co-editor with
Nancy Thomson de Grummond
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)
References
Further reading
;Writings in her honor
* ''Laudatio für Frau Professor Dr. phil. Erika Simon'' in ''Feier zur Verleihung des E.H. Vits-Preises'' 1983, 5–8, Tonio Hölscher.
* ''Kotinos: Festschrift für Erika Simon'' 1992. von Zabern.
1927 births
2019 deaths
German archaeologists
German women archaeologists
20th-century German non-fiction writers
21st-century German non-fiction writers
20th-century German women writers
21st-century German women writers
Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Members of the American Philosophical Society