Lawrence Richardson Jr.
American classicist (1920–2013)
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Lawrence Richardson Jr. (December 2, 1920, in Altoona, Pennsylvania – July 21, 2013, in Durham, North Carolina)[1] was an American classicist and ancient historian educated at Yale University who was a member of the faculty of classics at Duke University from 1966 to 1991. He was married to the classical archaeologist Emeline Hill Richardson. Richardson received numerous fellowships, including a Fulbright and a Guggenheim, and support from the American Council of Learned Societies. He was a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (1950) and field director of the Academy's Cosa excavations (1952–1955). He was a resident of the American Academy in Rome (1979) and was its Mellon professor-in-charge of the School of Classical Studies (1981).[2] In 2012 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America.[3]
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| Born | December 2, 1920 |
| Died | July 21, 2013 (aged 92) |
| Spouse | Emeline Hill Richardson |
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| Alma mater | Yale University (BA, PhD) |
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Richardson's research included interests in Roman domestic architecture,[4] the sites of Pompeii and Cosa,[5] and Roman wall painting.[6]
Publications
Theses
- 1944. Poetical theory in republican Rome; an analytical discussion of the shorter narrative hexameter poems written in Latin during the first century before Christ. Undergraduate prize essays: Yale university, vol. v. New Haven, Yale University Press; London, H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
Books
- 1977: Propertius: Elegies I-IV : Ed., with introd. and commentary. Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806113715.
- 1988: Pompeii: an architectural history. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801835339.
- 1992: A new topographical dictionary of ancient Rome. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801843006.
- 1993: F. E. Brown, E. H. Richardson, L. Richardson, Jr. Cosa III: The Buildings of the Forum. Colony, Municipium, and Village. (Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, 37.) Pennsylvania State University Press.
- 1998: [Festschrift] L. Richardson Jr., M. T. Boatwright, and H. B. Evans. The shapes of city life in Rome and Pompeii : essays in honor of Lawrence Richardson, Jr. on the occasion of his retirement. New Rochelle, N.Y. : A.D. Caratzas. ISBN 9780892415663.
- 2000: A catalog of identifiable figure painters of ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801862359
Articles
- "Cosa and Rome: Comitium and Curia". Archaeology. 10 (1): 49–55. March 1957.
Ph. D. students
- James L. Franklin. 1975. The Chronology and Sequence of the Candidacies for Municipal Magistracies Attested by the Pompeian Parietal Inscriptions, A.D. 71-79. Ph.D. thesis], Duke University.[7]
Necrology
- "Lawrence Richardson, Jr., FAAR'50, RAAR'79" American Academy in Rome Society of Fellows Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- The News & Observer on July 25, 2013
External links
- Lawrence Richardson Jr. at the Database of Classical Scholars