Florence Alden Gragg
American classics scholar
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Florence Alden Gragg (November 2, 1877 – January 13, 1965) was an American classics scholar and college professor. She taught Latin and Greek at Smith College from 1909 to 1943.
Florence Alden Gragg | |
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Florence Alden Gragg, from the 1929 yearbook of Smith College | |
| Born | November 2, 1877 Roxbury, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | January 13, 1965 (age 87) Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupations | College professor, classics scholar, philologist |
| Partner | Amy Louise Barbour |
Early life and education
Gragg was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the daughter of Isaac Paul Gragg and Eldora Olive Waite Gragg.[1] Her mother was a student of Mary Baker Eddy and closely involved with the founding of The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston.[2] Her sister Elisabeth F. Norwood was also prominent in Christian Science.[3]
Gragg attended Boston Girls' Latin School, and graduated from Radcliffe College. She pursued further studies at Bryn Mawr College and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. She earned a master's degree from Radcliffe in 1906, and a Ph.D. in 1908, both in classical studies.[4] She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.[5]
Career
Gragg taught school in New Hampshire and New York after college. In 1909 she began teaching Latin and Greek at Smith College.[6] She participated in campus productions of Greek dramas, including Euripides' The Iphigenia at Aulis in 1912.[7] She became a full professor in 1917,[8] and retired in 1943.[9] She was named to the Radcliffe College Board of Trustees in 1939.[5]
Publications
- A Study of the Greek Epigram before 300 B.C. (1910)[10]
- "Two Schoolmasters of the Renaissance" (1919)[11]
- "The Inauguration of President Neilson at Smith College" (1919)[12]
- Latin Writings of the Italian Humanists (1927, translator)[13]
- Paolo Giovio, An Italian Portrait Gallery (1935, translator)
- The Commentaries of Pius II (1937–1957, translator)[14][15]
Personal life
Gragg lived with her partner and colleague Amy Louise Barbour; she also had a house in Cohasset and a farm in Hudson, Massachusetts. Gragg and Barbour traveled in Italy and Greece together, and in 1933 drove across the United States together after visiting Gragg's sister in Los Angeles.[16] Barbour died in 1950, and Gragg died in 1965, at the age of 87, in Brookline, Massachusetts.[17]