Mary Zelia Pease Philippides Explained

Mary Zelia Pease Philippides
Other Names:	Maria Zelia Pease Philippides
Birth Name:	Mary Zelia Pease
Birth Date:	January 16, 1906
Death Date:	January 23, 2009 (aged 103)
Occupation:	Librarian, archaeologist
Spouse(S):	John Philippides

Mary Zelia Pease Philippides (January 16, 1906 – January 23, 2009) was an American archaeologist and librarian. She was librarian at the American School for Classical Studies in Athens from 1958 to 1971.

Early life and education

Pease was born in New York City, the daughter of Lewis Frederic Pease and Laurette Eustis Potts Pease. Her mother was a social worker; her father was an organist and music librarian,^[1] and taught at the New England Conservatory of Music and at the Yale School of Music.^[2] She attended the Chapin School, and a girls' school in Switzerland, and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1927.^{[3] [4]} She worked on excavations in Greece after college, and completed doctoral studies in archaeology in 1933.^[5] Her dissertation was titled "A Catalogue of the Greek Vases in the Collection of Albert Gallatin in New York City".^[6]

Career

Pease taught at Bryn Mawr College^[7] and at the Shipley School as a young woman. She was book review editor for the American Journal of Archaeology in the 1940s. She worked for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and the Greek War Relief Association during and after World War II.^[8] She taught at the Hotchkiss School in the 1950s. She was an archaeologist who spent several residencies in Athens until she was appointed librarian at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens in 1958. She retired in 1971. She was one of several Bryn Mawr and Wellesley alumni involved in excavations in Greece in the 1930s, a group that included Hetty Goldman, Dorothy Cox, and Virginia Randolph Grace.^[9]

Publications

• "The Pottery from the North Slope of the Acropolis" (1935)^[10]
• "A Well of the Late Fifth Century at Corinth" (1937)^[11]
• Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, U.S.A.: volume 8, Fogg Museum and Gallatin Collections (1942, with George H. Chase)^[12]
• "Attic Black-Figured Pottery" (1986, with Mary B. Moore and Dietrich von Bothmer)^[13]

Personal life

Pease married Greek-born American educator John Argyros Philippides in 1946. They had a daughter, Dia.^{[14] [15]} Mary Zelia Pease Philippides died in 2009, at the age of 103.^[16]

Notes and References

1. Book: Princeton University Class of 1895 . The Class of 1895, Princeton University, Quindecennial Record 1895–1910 . 1911 . Princeton University Press . 46 . en.
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=_21IAAAAYAAJ&dq=Mary+Zelia+Pease&pg=PA45 "The Alumni"
3. Bryn Mawr College, Class of 1927 (1927 yearbook). via Internet Archive
4. News: 1923-07-19 . Bryn Mawr Prize Winner . 4 . The Tampa Tribune . 2023-06-12 . Newspapers.com.
5. News: Wister . Jane . 1946-10-22 . Mary Zelia Pease Bride of John A. Philippides . 22 . The Philadelphia Inquirer . 2023-06-12 . Newspapers.com.
6. Web site: Dissertations List . 2023-06-12 . Bryn Mawr College.
7. News: 1938-04-17 . 2 Bryn Mawr Alumnae Named to Faculty . 5 . The Philadelphia Inquirer . 2023-06-12 . Newspapers.com.
8. News: 1944-10-02 . GIrls' Club to Have Luncheon Tomorrow . 11 . The News Journal . 2023-06-12 . Newspapers.com.
9. News: 1937-02-28 . Dr. Goldman Leads Archaeology Trip; Princeton Woman Professor Will Direct Excavations in Tarsus, Asia Minor . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-06-12 . 0362-4331.
10. Pease . Mary Zelia . 1935 . The Pottery from the North Slope of the Acropolis . Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens . 4 . 2 . 214–302 . 146638 . 0018-098X.
11. Pease . M. Z. . 1937 . A Well of the Late Fifth Century at Corinth . Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens . 6 . 2 . 257–316 . 146521 . 0018-098X.
12. Chase, George Henry, and Mary Zelia Pease. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Harvard University Press, 1942.
13. Moore . Mary B. . Philippides . Mary Zelia Pease . von Bothmer . Dietrich . 1986 . Attic Black-Figured Pottery . The Athenian Agora . 23 . iii–382 . 10.2307/3601997 . 3601997 . 1558-8610.
14. Web site: Dia Philippides . 2023-06-12 . Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College.
15. Web site: 2022-06-21 . Reading Greece: Professor Dia Philippides on the 'CENSUS of Modern Greek Literature' . 2023-06-12 . Greek News Agenda . en-GB.
16. Web site: Maria Zelia Pease Philippides (1906–2009) . 2023-06-12 . American School of Classical Studies at Athens.