, 1942–2012, was Professor of Art and Classical Studies at Wellesley College. Educated at Bryn Mawr College (B.A.) and Harvard University (Ph.D.), she was twice a visiting professor at Williams College, a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute, and in 2004 Resident in Classics at the American Academy in Rome. The culmination of her scholarly work was her »dazzling« and »magisterial« book, The Language of the Muses.