Elizabeth Caskey

Elizabeth Caskey
Caskey in 1957
Born	Clara Elizabeth Conningsby Gwyn 20 May 1910 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Died	January 1994 (aged 83) Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
Nationality	Canadian
Other names	Betty
Occupation	Classical scholar, archaeologist

Elizabeth "Betty" Gwyn Caskey (20 May 1910 – January 1994) was a Canadian-American classical scholar, teacher, and archaeologist, known for her work in the excavations at Lerna and Kea, which are of importance to Greek prehistory. As an archaeologist she worked with her husband, Jack Caskey, on excavations where she supervised the trenches of every annual dig and their fortifications. She also wrote summaries of the excavations. After her marriage ended she excavated at Pylos. She was a Professor of Classics at Randolph-Macon College who became Professor Emeritus in 1981.

Elizabeth Caskey was born Clara Elizabeth Conningsby Gwyn on 20 May 1910 at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. She was the third child of seven children (four girls and three boys) of Stratton Gwyn and Fanny Coningsby. She spent her early years in the prairies of Canada under difficult conditions. She attended elementary school at Dandas until 1921. From 1922 her high school education was at the Battleford Collegiate School at Battleford. She was a good debater in the school, and graduated from the school with distinction, getting the Governor General's Medal for Saskatchewan. From 1926 to 1927 she stayed at home learning piano as her mother thought she was too young to go to college.

In 1928, when her family moved to Duncan, British Columbia, she attended Hamilton Central Collegiate, preparatory to joining college. She graduated from Hamilton with honours in English literature, history, Algebra and Geometry, Latin, French and Greek, and was the recipient of the J. M. Buchan Gold Medal and three scholarships to pursue further graduate studies at the University of Toronto. She studied at the Trinity College of the university and after four years of study in various subjects received her degree in Classics in 1932 with distinction, topping her class. After receiving her MA degree in 1933 from Toronto College she moved to the University of Cincinnati with a teaching fellowship to pursue further studies for her doctorate. Her doctoral studies covered Greek history, prose composition, elegy and epigram, and Greek civilization. She also did a course in pre-classical Greece from 1935 to 1936.

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