Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule (New York City August 11, 1928 – Cambridge, Massachusetts February 6, 2001) was an American classical scholar and archaeologist. The construction of the Empire State Building, 1930. ... August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Cambridge City Hall Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. ... February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Classics, particularly within the Western University tradition, when used as a singular noun, means the study of the language, literature, history, art, and other aspects of Greek and Roman culture during the time frame known as classical antiquity. ... Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ...

She studied at Bryn Mawr College (A.B. 1950) and Radcliffe College (M.A. 1954), receiving her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. As a Fulbright Scholar in 1950, she attended the American School of Classical Studies in Athens; as a Catherwood Fellow three years later, she studied at Oxford University. She married the archaeologist Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III in 1957. She is the mother of Adrian Vermeule, a law professor at the University of Chicago. Bryn Mawr is also the name of an official neighborhood of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota Bryn Mawr College is a highly-selective womens liberal-arts college located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, ten miles northwest of Philadelphia. ... Radcliffe College is the historical name of a womens educational institution closely associated with Harvard University, one of the Seven Sisters. ... The Fulbright Program is program of educational grants (Fulbright Fellowships) sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The University of Chicago is a private co-educational university located in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1890, doors opened in 1892. ...

She became Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Zemurray-Stone Radcliffe Professor at Harvard University in 1970. Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ...

Vermeule was also a published poet, whose poems appeared in The New Yorker and Poetry Magazine. The New Yorkers first cover, which is reprinted most years on the magazines anniversary. ...

Works

• The Trojan War in Greek Art (1964)
• Greece in the Bronze Age (1966)
• The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology (1972) with Martin P. Nilsson
• Toumba Tou Skourou. The Mound of Darkness. A Bronze Age Town on Morphou Bay in Cyprus (1974) with Florence Z. Wolsky
• Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry (1979)
• Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting (1982) with Vassos Karageorghis

External links

• Harvard Gazette: obituary