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Ida Carleton Hill (née Thallon; August 11, 1875 – December 14, 1954) was an American archaeologist, classical scholar and historian. Hill had a strong interest in the relationship between history, geography, and archaeology, which was reflected in her research and publications over her fifty-year career.
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Ida Carleton Hill (née Thallon; August 11, 1875 – December 14, 1954) was an American archaeologist, classical scholar and historian. Hill had a strong interest in the relationship between history, geography, and archaeology, which was reflected in her research and publications over her fifty-year career.
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Early life and education Ida Carleton Thallon was born on August 11, 1875, to John and Grace (Green) Thallon. She attended Packer Collegiate Institute for Girls in Brooklyn, New York. She obtained a Bachelor of Art Degree (AB) from Vassar College in 1897.
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Early archaeological and academic career Hill attended the American School of Classical Studies in Athens from 1899 to 1901. Joining her at the school was fellow Vassar alumna Lida Shaw King. King and Hill were friends who travelled together for three months in Europe before starting classes. They would later collaborate on archaeological publications. While at school, archaeologist Wilhelm Dörpfeld's lectures on the topography of Athens had a strong influence on Hill. She was also inspired by friend and fellow student Harriet Boyd. Boyd was a strong advocate for allowing women students to participate in excavations and was successful in gaining permission from the school director to excavate a site of her choosing. In 1900 when Hill returned for her second year, school director Rufus Richardson offered King and Hill the publication of the terracottas from Corinth. They began this project together, but Hill completed the project twenty four years later. During this time in Athens, Hill also studied geometric vases for her Master's thesis at Vassar. Hill's first experience of fieldwork was in February 1901, when she participated in the excavation at Vari Cave, Attica, under the direction of Charles Weller. Hill and King worked again together as part…
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Later archaeological career In 1923, Hill travelled to Italy and Greece to work on a publication on pre-Roman Italy with the focus being the relationship between archaeology and history. The following year, she resigned from Vassar and made Athens her permanent home, where she lived with Bert Hodge Hill, then director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, whom she had married in 1924; her long-term partner Elizabeth Pierce Blegen; and Pierce Blegen's husband Carl Blegen. In 1924, Hill began working on a writing project for Harold North Fowler, the editor-in-chief of the Corinth publications. She was enlisted to publish volumes that would cover all the excavation finds and buildings. Hill committed to publishing the terracottas of Corinth, the project she and Lida Shaw King had initiated and not completed in 1900. With the assistance of Elizabeth Van Buren, a specialist in terracottas, Hill and Elizabeth Pierce Blegen catalogued the new finds from the excavation. In 1925, Hill participated in an excavation directed by Carl Blegen at Heraeum in Argos. Blegen had discovered Prosymna, an important Bronze Age settlement. In 1927–1928 she participated in excavations at Prosymna and, in 1932–1938, the excavations at Troy and then Pylos. At…
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Personal life Hill met Elizabeth Pierce when she was Pierce's professor at Vassar in 1906. The two women formed an intimate student/mentor relationship that developed into an intimate personal relationship which continued after Pierce left for graduate work at Columbia University. When Pierce returned to Vassar to teach art history in 1915, the couple started living in adjacent rooms in Davison house on campus; their relationship at this time has been described as a 'Boston marriage'. In 1921, Pierce travelled to Greece with Hill, and the next year attended the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. While in Athens, her budding relationship with archaeologist Carl Blegen led to a marriage proposal from Blegen. Pierce initially accepted but then broke off the engagement as she did not wish to end her relationship with Thallon; a plan was formed by Blegen, Pierce, and Bert Hodge Hill (who appears to have had unreciprocated romantic feelings for Blegen) that Hodge Hill and Thallon would marry at the same time as Pierce and Blegen, and the four would live together; Thallon agreed on condition that she and Pierce would continue to travel and spend time together away from their husbands, and the two couples…
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Selected bibliography The Cave at Vari. III. Marble Reliefs, Journal of Archeology, Vol. 7, No. 3, (1903), p 301-319 Readings in Greek History, From Homer to the Battle of Cheronea; a Collection of Extractions from the Sources. Boston: University of California Libraries, 1914 Some Balkan and Danubian Connexions of Troy, Journal of Historical Studies 39 (1919), 185-201 New Light on Some Problems of Ancient History Classical World 15 (1921), 10-15. A mediaeval humanist: Michael Akominatos, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923 Rome of the kings: an archæological setting for Livy and Virgil, New York: E.P Dutton & Co., 1925 Corinth Series : results of excavations conducted by the American school of classical studies at Athens. Vol. 4., Decorated architectural terracottas, Cambridge: Pub. for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Harvard University Press, 1929, (with Lida Shaw King) The Ancient City of Athens: Its Topography and Monuments, Chicago: Argonaut, 1953