Florence Stawell

Florence Melian Stawell was a classical scholar.

Career

Florence Melian Stawell, youngest daughter of Sir William Foster Stawell, was born at Melbourne on 2 May 1869. She was named for the Melians, ancient Greek idealists from Melos of whom Thucydides had written, and was known as Melian.
Stawell attended Trinity College, the University of Melbourne, where she was greatly influenced by the Warden, Dr Alexander Leeper.
In 1911, she offered an interpretation of the Phaistos Disc as Homeric Greek, syllabic writing.
She died on 9 June 1936.
Stawell was a member of the Society for Psychical Research.