 from Wellesley College in 1957, "Phi Beta Kappa" with honors in Greek, and received her Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Radcliffe College (now part of Harvard University) in 1961.She returned to Wellesley College in 1959 as an instructor in Greek.In 1979 she was named Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, a position she held until her retirement in 2005.