ABSTRACT
Everything in Adelaide Hahn’s life was connected to everything else. Her home was her school; her school became her career. In an academic world dominated by men, she did what they did. Colleagues were friends; friends became colleagues. She wrote small verses to entertain students and scholars; she described and explained the poetry of Vergil. She published learned studies of the classics; she wrote about their connections to modern life in magazines and the newspapers. She was at once a classicist, a philologist, and a linguist. She remained a New Yorker from her birth on the first day of April in the year 1893 until she died on the eighth of July in 1967 at the age of 74, but Adelaide Hahn drew no boundaries.1
