Dee L. Clayman

Dee L. Clayman is an American classical scholar and a professor of Classics at the City University of New York.^[1] She is a pioneer in the effort to digitize the humanities^[2] and served as president of the Society for Classical Studies.^[3]

Education

Clayman earned a bachelor’s degree in Greek with honors from Wellesley College. She holds a MA in Latin and Greek as well as a Ph.D. in Classical Studies, from the University of Pennsylvania.^[4][5]

Career

Clayman began her career in 1972 as an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, ultimately rising to the position of Professor of Classics in 1982.^[6] Beginning in 1985, Clayman also served as Professor of Classics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where she was Executive Officer of the PhD Program in Classics from 1995 to 2022.^[5] She became Professor Emeritus upon her retirement in 2023.^[1]

Hellenistic Period

Her areas of academic research include the Hellenistic period, with specific emphasis on the work of Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius of Rhodes and the epigrammatists, as well as the intersection of Hellenistic poetry with history and philosophy.^[1]

An early adopter of using digital technology to explore the classics, Clayman is the recipient of 10 individual grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities^[7] and various private foundations to support the development of an online database of classical bibliography.^[8][9] 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.,^[10] has significantly expanded global access to a wide variety of research materials.^[2] The project was initially published in 1995 as a set of CD-ROMs^[11] and is now incorporated with the Année philologique.^[12]

In addition to her academic work, Clayman was the founding editor-in-chief of Oxford Bibliographies: Classics.^[13] She previously served as president of the Société internationale de bibliographie classique,^[14] and is past-president of the American Philological Association, now known as the Society for Classical Studies.^[3]

Clayman is a former member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.^[15]

Selected works

Queen Berenice II

Books

• Callimachus, (3 vols. Loeb Classical Library)^{[16] [17] [18]}
• Queen Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt^{[19] [20]}
• Timon of Philus: Pyrrhonism into Poetry^[21]
• Callimachus’ Iambi^[22]

Articles

• "Callimachus’ Doric Graces (15 G.-P. = AP 5.146)"^[23]
• "Did Any Berenike Attend the Isthmian Games? A Literary Perspective on Posidippus 82 AB"^[24]
• Database of Classical Bibliography^[9]
• “The Digitization of the Anneé Philologique” ^[25]
• "Trends and Issues in Quantitative Stylistics."^[26]
• "Time Series Analysis of Word Length in Oedipus the King,"^[27]
• "The Meaning of Corinna's Weroia."^[28]

Awards

• Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2010–11^[5]
• Senior Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2002-3^[5]
• Medal for Distinguished Service, American Philological Association, 1999^[12]

References

1. "Dee L. Clayman". www.gc.cuny.edu. Archived from the original on 2021-09-21. Retrieved 2020-04-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link).
2. Catenaccio, Claire (2020-04-10). "Blog: Women in Classics: An Interview with Dee Clayman". Society for Classical Studies. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
3. "Past Presidents". Society for Classical Studies. 2010-05-21. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
4. "Dee Clayman | Department of Classical Studies". www.classics.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
5. Clayman, Dee L. "CV" (PDF).
6. "Faculty Profile". www.brooklyn.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
7. "NEH grant details: Database of Classical Bibliography [DCB]". securegrants.neh.gov. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
8. Humanities, National Endowment for the (1995). National Endowment for the Humanities ... Annual Report. The Endowment.
9. Clayman, Dee L (1993). The database of classical bibliography: methodology and design. OCLC 888807187.
10. Press, Gerald A. (1998). "The Database of Classical Bibliography (review)". Journal of the History of Philosophy. 36 (4): 619. doi:10.1353/hph.2008.0854. ISSN 1538-4586. S2CID 149207147.
11. "1996.1.5, Clayman, ed., Database of Classical Bibliography – Bryn Mawr Classical Review". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
12. "Citation: Dee Clayman, DSA 1999". Society for Classical Studies. 2015-11-19. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
13. "Classics - Authoritative Research Guide - Oxford Bibliographies". obo. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
14. "Frontpage ›› Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique · SIBC". Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique · SIBC (in French). Retrieved 2020-04-24.
15. "Dee Clayman". Institute for Advanced Study. 13 July 2020. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
16. Clayman, Dee L. (2022). Callimachus, vol. I: Aetia. Iambi. Lyric Poems. The Loeb classical library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-99734-9. OCLC 1363832925.
17. Clayman, Dee L. (2022). Callimachus, vol. II: Hecale. Hymns. Epigrams. The Loeb classical library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-99734-9. OCLC 1363832925.
18. Clayman, Dee L. (2022). Callimachus, vol. III: Miscellaneous Epics and Elegies. Other Fragments. Testimonia. The Loeb classical library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-99734-9. OCLC 1363832925.
19. Clayman, Dee L. (2014). Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-537089-8.
20. "Queen Berenice II of Egypt w. Dr. Dee L. Clayman - Ithacabound.com". 2021-05-23. Retrieved 2024-05-26.
21. Clayman, Dee L. (2009-12-15). Timon of Phlius: Pyrrhonism into Poetry. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-022081-0.
22. Clayman, D. L. (1980). Callimachus' Iambi. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-06063-0.
23. Sistakou, Evina; Rengakos, Antonios (2016-10-24). Dialect, Diction, and Style in Greek Literary and Inscribed Epigram. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-049702-1.
24. Clayman, Dee L. (2012). "Did Any Berenike Attend the Isthmian Games? A Literary Perspective on Posipippus 82 AB". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 182: 121–130. ISSN 0084-5388. JSTOR 23849835.
25. Warburg, Inés (2022-02-07). "De Lerina insvla : tradición manuscrita, textos y edición". Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes. Tome XCIV (1): 143–153. doi:10.3917/phil.941.0143. ISSN 0035-1652.
26. Clayman, D. L. (1992). "Trends and Issues in Quantitative Stylistics". Transactions of the American Philological Association. 122: 385–390. doi:10.2307/284381. ISSN 0360-5949. JSTOR 284381.
27. Clayman, Dee (1987). "Time Series Analysis of Word Length in Oedipus the King". Favonius Supplementary. I. Rochester, NY. SSRN 1487312.
28. Clayman, Dee Lesser (1978). "The Meaning of Corinna's ϝεροι̑α". The Classical Quarterly. 28 (2): 396–397. doi:10.1017/S0009838800034923. ISSN 0009-8388. JSTOR 638690. S2CID 170689717.