Rachel Sargent Robinson

Rachel Louisa Sargent Robinson (February 10, 1891 – December 18, 1977) was an American classical scholar. While working at North Central College, she published The Story of Greek Athletics, which would later get an updated edition, Sources for the History of Greek Athletics (1955).

Biography Rachel Louisa Sargent was born on February 10, 1891, in Methuen, Massachusetts.

Needing money for higher education tuition, she began working as a high school Latin teacher, teaching at Westbrook College (1914–1916) while she got her AB at Bates College in 1914. She later used the fellowship to do research in Greece, which C. R. Trahman later called "one of the happiest periods in her life". she married Rodney Potter Robinson, a classics professor at the University of Cincinnati. The same year, she later moved to the University of Cincinnati, where she taught about English-language translations of Greek literature. She also spent several years organizing an informal session in which she and several classics students from the graduate school would spend an evening reading Greek together. At the time of her death, she had been spending her free time working on a then-incomplete project similar to her 1927 book but focusing on the Roman era.