Marion Elizabeth Blake

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Marion Elizabeth Blake (23 March 1892 - 11 September 1961), was a classics professor known for her work on the technology of Roman construction.

1 Background
2 Career
3 Works
4 References

[edit] Background

Blake was born in New Britain, Connecticut. She was the daughter of Arthur C. and Elizabeth Snow Blake. She studied at Mount Holyoke College, earning her B.A. in 1913 with majors in Greek and Latin. She earned the M.A. (1917) and Ph.D. (1921) from Cornell University.

She died in Rome, Italy in 1961.

[edit] Career

She was a professor of classical languages at Illinois College(1921-1922), Converse College (1922-1928), Mount Holyoke College (1929-1936), Sweet Briar College (1936), and Winthrop College (1937-1938).

She served as a research associate on Roman Archaeology at the Carnegie Institute in Washington, D.C. (1938-1947) and then worked in Rome at the American Academy in Rome from 1947 to 1961.

Her work was closely connected to that of Esther Boise Van Deman, with Blake picking up and completing Van Deman's unfinished manuscript on Roman construction at the death of Van Deman.

[edit] Works

Ancient Roman construction in Italy from the prehistoric period to Augustus. A chronological study based in part upon the material accumulated by Esther Boise Van Deman. (Washington, 1947).
Roman construction in Italy from Tiberius through the Flavians. (Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1959).
Roman construction in Italy from Nerva through the Antonines. Edited and completed by Doris Taylor Bishop (1917-1969). (Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1973).