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 was a Resident of the American Academy in Rome (1979), and served as the American Academy in Rome’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 interests in Roman domestic architecture,[5] the sites of Pompeii and Cosa,[6] and Roman wall painting.[7]

Publications

Theses

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

  • 1957. "Cosa and Rome: Comitium and Curia." Archaeology 10.1:49-55.

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 "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-03-08. Retrieved 2014-11-10.
  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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