24 Facts About Ida Hill

Ida Carleton Hill was an American archaeologist, classical scholar and historian.

Ida Hill Carleton Thallon was born on August 11,1875, to John and Grace Thallon.

Ida Hill attended Packer Collegiate Institute for Girls in Brooklyn, New York.

Ida Hill obtained a Bachelor of Art Degree from Vassar College in 1897.

Ida Hill attended the American School of Classical Studies in Athens from 1899 to 1901.

King and Ida Hill were friends who travelled together for three months in Europe before starting classes.

Ida Hill was inspired by friend and fellow student Harriet Boyd.

In 1900 when Ida Hill returned for her second year, school director Rufus Richardson offered King and Ida Hill the publication of the terracottas from Corinth.

In 1901 Ida Hill finished her master's degree at Vassar.

Ida Hill then accepted a position from her alma mater as an instructor in the Greek and Roman Studies Department.

Ida Hill spent two years teaching Greek, from 1901 to 1903.

Ida Hill's dissertation was Lycosura and the Date of Damophon, which was published in the American Journal of Archaeology.

Ida Hill had a strong interest in the study of history, with an emphasis on the relationship between history and geography and between history and archaeology and during these years started to research and publish her findings.

In 1916, Ida Hill published an article discussing the connections between archaeology and history and the mutual dependence of the two sciences.

In 1923, Ida 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.

In 1924, Ida Hill began working on a writing project for Harold North Fowler, the editor-in-chief of the Corinth publications.

Ida Hill was enlisted to publish volumes that would cover all the excavation finds and buildings.

In 1925, Ida Hill participated in an excavation directed by Carl Blegen at Heraeum in Argos.

At Pylos, Ida Hill supervised the excavation of a pillaged Tholos tomb.

The outbreak of World War I interrupted archeological work being done in Greece and both the Blegens and Thallon Ida Hill moved back to the United States.

Ida Hill met Elizabeth Pierce when she was Pierce's professor at Vassar in 1906.

Thallon Ida Hill and Pierce Blegen often worked together on excavations, cataloguing materials and publishing findings for both their husbands.

Ida Hill died at sea on December 14,1954, while traveling home to Athens, with Pierce Blegen at her side.

Hodge Ida Hill died in 1958 and Pierce Blegen died in 1966, three years after she had deeded the house on Ploutarchou Street to the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.