Editing Society for Classical Studies (section)

==History==
The APA was inaugurated by [[William D. Whitney]], of [[Yale University|Yale]], at [[Poughkeepsie, New York]], in 1869 as an outgrowth of the Classical Section of the [[Oriental Society]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://classicalstudies.org/about-scs/scs-glance|title=SCS at a Glance|publisher=Society for Classical Studies}}</ref> Of the 151 inaugural members, just 8 were women, including [[Alice Robinson Boise Wood]], the first woman to study (informally) at the [[University of Michigan]] and to graduate with a B.A. from the [[Old University of Chicago]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dbcs.rutgers.edu/all-scholars/9307-wood-alice-robinson-boise|title=WOOD, Alice Robinson Boise|last=Brennan|first=T. Corey|work=Database of Classical Scholars|publisher=[[The State University of New Jersey]]|access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref> Originally its members studied a great variety of texts and languages, but as disciplines such as [[linguistics]] and modern languages have created their own societies, the APA came to be concerned with classical antiquity and fields closely related to the study of antiquity, while the definition of "philology" broadened to include many approaches to understanding the ancient world. In 2013, the American Philological Association elected to change its name to the Society for Classical Studies.<ref>{{cite web
| url=http://apaclassics.org/apa-blog/update-change-of-associations-name
| title=Update on Change of Association's Name
| first=Adam
| last=Blistein
| date=2013-11-18
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421191420/http://apaclassics.org/apa-blog/update-change-of-associations-name
| archive-date=2015-04-21
| url-status=dead
| publisher=Society for Classical Studies}}</ref>