Researching Eleanor Leach
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The name Eleanor means "Light" and is of Greek origin.
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Eleanor Leach and the Leach Family History
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Some Famous People called Eleanor Leach
Eleanor Winsor Leach
Eleanor Winsor Leach (August 16, 1937 – February 16, 2018) was the Ruth N. Halls Professor with the Department of Classical Studies at Indiana University. She was a trustee of the Vergilian Society in 1978-83 and was second and then first vice-president in 1989-92. Leach was the president of the Society of Classical Studies (formerly, the American Philological Association) in 2005/6, and the chair of her department (1978-1985). She was very involved with academics and younger scholars - directing 26 dissertations, wrote letters for 200 tenure and promotion cases, and refereed more than 100 books and 200 articles. Leach's research interests included Roman painting, Roman sculpture, and Cicero and Pliny's Letters. She published three books (with another forthcoming) and more than 50 articles. Leach's work had an interdisciplinary focus, reading Latin texts against their social, political, and cultural context. From the 1980s onwards, she combined her work on ancient literature with the study of Roman painting, monuments, and topography.
Source: Eleanor Winsor Leach, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
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