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| Nancy de Grummond | |
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| Name | Nancy de Grummond |
| Birth date | 1940s |
| Birth place | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Occupation | Classicist, Archaeologist, Professor |
| Spouse | Michael H. Crawford (m. 1960s) |
| Known for | Studies of Roman Republic, Augustus, Vergil, Aeneid, Sicily |
Nancy de Grummond is an American classical scholar and archaeologist noted for her work on Roman Republic, Augustan literature, Vergil, and Roman religion. She has held faculty positions at Florida State University and led major excavations in Sicily that linked literary sources such as the Aeneid with archaeological evidence. Her scholarship intersects with studies of Hellenistic period, Republican Rome, Imperial Rome, and Mediterranean archaeology.
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, de Grummond completed undergraduate studies that engaged with curricula at institutions associated with classical languages and Mediterranean studies. She pursued graduate education in classics and archaeology, earning advanced degrees that connected philological training in Latin literature with field methodology from programs affiliated with The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, University of Florida, and other centers for classical scholarship. Her doctoral work integrated analysis of texts by Vergil, Ovid, and Livy with material culture recovered from sites discussed by Strabo and Dionysius of Halicarnassus.
De Grummond joined the faculty of Florida State University where she established courses linking Latin literature to archaeological practice and heritage management. She served in departmental leadership roles connected to classical studies, Mediterranean archaeology, and museum curation, collaborating with scholars from Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and European institutions such as Sapienza University of Rome and the University of Palermo. Her teaching covered topics from the Roman Republic to Augustan Rome, incorporating readings from Vergil, Horace, Ovid, and Propertius alongside material remains from sites like Syracuse and Heraclea Minoa.
De Grummond's publications include monographs and articles examining connections between Augustan ideology in the Aeneid and archaeological evidence for cult activity in Sicily and southern Italy. Her work engages with debates involving scholars such as R. R. R. Smith, Paul Zanker, Mary Beard, T. P. Wiseman, and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. Major topics she has addressed include interpretations of Julio-Claudian iconography, the topography of cult sanctuaries discussed by Pausanias, and votive assemblages documented in excavation reports from sites mentioned by Thucydides and Diodorus Siculus. She has contributed chapters to volumes alongside editors from Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Brill and has published in journals such as American Journal of Archaeology, Journal of Roman Studies, Classical Philology, and Hesperia.
De Grummond directed excavations at key Sicilian sites including Eraclea Minoa and worked on material culture related to sanctuaries and necropoleis cited by ancient geographers like Strabo and Diodorus Siculus. Her field teams coordinated with the Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali and partnered with institutions such as The British School at Rome and The American Academy in Rome. The excavations produced stratigraphic reports, catalogues of terracotta figurines, amphorae studies linking trade networks with Phoenicia and Carthage, and architectural analyses that informed reinterpretations of Hellenistic and Roman phases at coastal Sicilian settlements referenced in the works of Thucydides and Polybius.
Her scholarship has been recognized with fellowships and awards from bodies including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and research grants associated with the Institute for Advanced Study and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation. De Grummond has been a visiting fellow at the British School at Athens and a participant in collaborative projects funded by the Getty Foundation and the European Research Council. She has received honors for contributions to classical archaeology from learned societies such as the Archaeological Institute of America and the Classical Association.
De Grummond married Michael H. Crawford, a noted numismatist and classical scholar, and their partnership has linked studies in numismatics, epigraphy, and Mediterranean archaeology. She has been active in professional organizations including the Society for Classical Studies and has lectured at venues such as the American Numismatic Society, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and university colloquia across Europe and the United States.
Category:Classical archaeologists Category:American classical scholars