Dee L. Clayman

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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.classics.upenn.edu/people/dee-clayman|title=Dee Clayman {{!}} Department of Classical Studies|website=www.classics.upenn.edu|access-date=2020-04-23}}{{Cite web |last=Clayman |first=Dee L. |title=CV |url=https://www.gc.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/2023-01/CV-CLAYMAN-DEE-1-1-2023.pdf}}

Clayman began her career in 1972 as an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, ultimately rising to the position of Professor of Classics in 1982.{{Cite web|url=http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/faculty_profile.jsp|title=Faculty Profile|website=www.brooklyn.cuny.edu|language=en|access-date=2020-04-23}} 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. She became Professor Emeritus upon her retirement in 2023.

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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.

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{{Cite web|url=https://securegrants.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=RG-20207-95|title=NEH grant details: Database of Classical Bibliography [DCB]|website=securegrants.neh.gov|access-date=2020-04-23}} and various private foundations to support the development of an online database of classical bibliography.{{Cite book|last=Humanities|first=National Endowment for the|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NQAmqqOZFTgC&q=dee%20L.%20clayman%20national%20endowment%20for%20the%20humanities&pg=PA57|title=National Endowment for the Humanities ... Annual Report|date=1995|publisher=The Endowment|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Clayman|first=Dee L|title=The database of classical bibliography: methodology and design|date=1993|language=English|oclc=888807187}} 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.,{{Cite journal|last=Press|first=Gerald A.|date=1998|title=The Database of Classical Bibliography (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/228840|journal=Journal of the History of Philosophy|language=en|volume=36|issue=4|pages=619|doi=10.1353/hph.2008.0854|s2cid=149207147|issn=1538-4586|url-access=subscription}} has significantly expanded global access to a wide variety of research materials. The project was initially published in 1995 as a set of CD-ROMs{{Cite journal|url=https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/1996/1996.01.05/|title=1996.1.5, Clayman, ed., Database of Classical Bibliography – Bryn Mawr Classical Review|journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review |language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-23}} and is now incorporated with the Année philologique.{{Cite web|url=https://classicalstudies.org/awards-and-fellowships/citation-dee-clayman-dsa-1999|title=Citation: Dee Clayman, DSA 1999|date=2015-11-19|website=Society for Classical Studies|access-date=2020-04-23}}

In addition to her academic work, Clayman was the founding editor-in-chief of Oxford Bibliographies: Classics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/page/137|title=Classics - Authoritative Research Guide - Oxford Bibliographies|website=obo|language=en|access-date=2020-04-24}} She previously served as president of the Société internationale de bibliographie classique,{{Cite web|url=https://www.bibliographie-classique.org/frontpage|title=Frontpage ›› Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique · SIBC|website=Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique · SIBC|language=fr-FR|access-date=2020-04-24}} and is past-president of the American Philological Association, now known as the Society for Classical Studies.

Clayman is a former member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.{{Cite web|title=Dee Clayman|url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/dee-clayman|access-date=2020-10-21|website=Institute for Advanced Study|date=13 July 2020 |language=en}}

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• Callimachus, (3 vols. Loeb Classical Library){{Cite book |last=Clayman |first=Dee L. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/on1363832925 |title=Callimachus, vol. I: Aetia. Iambi. Lyric Poems |date=2022 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-99734-9 |series=The Loeb classical library |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |oclc=on1363832925}} {{Cite book |last=Clayman |first=Dee L. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/on1363832925 |title=Callimachus, vol. II: Hecale. Hymns. Epigrams. |date=2022 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-99734-9 |series=The Loeb classical library |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |oclc=on1363832925}} {{Cite book |last=Clayman |first=Dee L. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/on1363832925 |title=Callimachus, vol. III: Miscellaneous Epics and Elegies. Other Fragments. Testimonia |date=2022 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-99734-9 |series=The Loeb classical library |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |oclc=on1363832925}}
• Queen Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt{{Cite book|last=Clayman|first=Dee L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3z8pnQEACAAJ|title=Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt|date=2014|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-537089-8|language=en}} {{Cite web |date=2021-05-23 |title=Queen Berenice II of Egypt w. Dr. Dee L. Clayman - Ithacabound.com |url=https://ithacabound.com/podcast/queen-berenice-ii-of-egypt-w-dr-dee-l-clayman/ |access-date=2024-05-26 |language=en-US}}
• Timon of Philus: Pyrrhonism into Poetry{{Cite book|last=Clayman|first=Dee L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X78KNOrfHE8C&q=Timon%20of%20Philus:%20Pyrrhonism%20into%20Poetry&pg=PP1|title=Timon of Phlius: Pyrrhonism into Poetry|date=2009-12-15|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-022081-0|language=en}}
• Callimachus’ Iambi{{Cite book|last=Clayman|first=D. L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AIkeAAAAIAAJ|title=Callimachus' Iambi|date=1980|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-06063-0|language=en}}

• "Callimachus’ Doric Graces (15 G.-P. = AP 5.146)"{{Cite book|last1=Sistakou|first1=Evina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7XoDDgAAQBAJ&q=Callimachus%E2%80%99+Doric+Graces+clayman&pg=PT33|title=Dialect, Diction, and Style in Greek Literary and Inscribed Epigram|last2=Rengakos|first2=Antonios|date=2016-10-24|publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG|isbn=978-3-11-049702-1|language=en}}
• "Did Any Berenike Attend the Isthmian Games? A Literary Perspective on Posidippus 82 AB"{{Cite journal|last=Clayman|first=Dee L.|date=2012|title=Did Any Berenike Attend the Isthmian Games? A Literary Perspective on Posipippus 82 AB|journal=Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik|volume=182|pages=121–130|jstor=23849835|issn=0084-5388}}
• Database of Classical Bibliography
• “The Digitization of the Anneé Philologique” {{Cite journal |last=Warburg |first=Inés |date=2022-02-07 |title=De Lerina insvla : tradición manuscrita, textos y edición |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/phil.941.0143 |journal=Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes |volume=Tome XCIV |issue=1 |pages=143–153 |doi=10.3917/phil.941.0143 |issn=0035-1652|url-access=subscription }}
• "Trends and Issues in Quantitative Stylistics."{{Cite journal|last=Clayman|first=D. L.|date=1992|title=Trends and Issues in Quantitative Stylistics|journal=Transactions of the American Philological Association |volume=122|pages=385–390|doi=10.2307/284381|jstor=284381|issn=0360-5949}}
• "Time Series Analysis of Word Length in Oedipus the King,"{{Cite journal|last=Clayman|first=Dee|date=1987|title=Time Series Analysis of Word Length in Oedipus the King|journal=Favonius Supplementary|volume=I|language=en|location=Rochester, NY|ssrn=1487312}}
• "The Meaning of Corinna's Weroia."{{Cite journal|last=Clayman|first=Dee Lesser|date=1978|title=The Meaning of Corinna's ϝεροι̑α|journal=The Classical Quarterly|volume=28|issue=2|pages=396–397|doi=10.1017/S0009838800034923|jstor=638690|s2cid=170689717 |issn=0009-8388}}

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

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