Lawrence Richardson, Jr.

Lawrence Richardson Jr. (December 2, 1920 in Altoona, Pennsylvania – July 21, 2013 in Durham, North Carolina)[1][2] 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, 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 AAR's Cosa excavations (1952–55). He a Resident of the AAR (1979), and the AAR’s Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the School of Classical Studies (1981).[3] In 2012 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America.[4]

Richardson's research included interest in Roman domestic architecture,[5] the sites of Pompeii and Cosa,[6] and Roman wall painting.[7]

Publications

Theses

Books

Articles

Ph. D. Students

  1. 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.

Necrology

References

  1. "Lawrence Richardson, Jr., FAAR'50, RAAR'79" http://www.aarome.org/people/alumni/sof/obituaries/lawrence-richardson,-jr.,-faar'50,-raar'79
  2. http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/obituaries/687
  3. Duke University, Classical Studies newsletter, 2011-2012 http://classicalstudies.duke.edu/uploads/media_items/newsletter-2012.original.pdf
  4. Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement http://www.archaeological.org/awards/goldmedal
  5. Lawrence Richardson (1988). Pompeii: An Architectural History. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-3533-9.
  6. Frank Edward Brown; Emeline Hill Richardson; Lawrence Richardson (1993). Cosa III: the buildings of the forum : colony, municipium, and village. Published for the American Academy in Rome by Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-00825-7.
  7. L. Richardson, jr (2000). A Catalog of Identifiable Figure Painters of Ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-6235-9.
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