Lawrence Richardson Jr.

Lawrence Richardson Jr.
Born	(1920-12-02)December 2, 1920 Altoona, Pennsylvania, US
Died	July 21, 2013(2013-07-21) (aged 92) Durham, North Carolina, US
Spouse	Emeline Hill Richardson
Academic background
Alma mater	Yale University (BA, PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	Classicist Ancient historian
Main interests	Roman architecture Roman wall painting

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]

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

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.[7]

Necrology

• "Lawrence Richardson, Jr., FAAR'50, RAAR'79" American Academy in Rome Society of Fellows [1]
• The News & Observer on July 25, 2013

External links

• Lawrence Richardson Jr. at the Database of Classical Scholars

References

1. "Lawrence Richardson Jr., FAAR'50, RAAR'79". American Academy in Rome. Archived from the original on May 4, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2019.
   - "Lawrence Richardson Jr. '42, '52 PhD | Obituaries". Yale Alumni Magazine. Retrieved May 4, 2019.
2. "Gold Medal Citation from AIA for Lawrence Richardson, jr. Jan 6, 2012" (PDF). Classical Studies (16). Duke University: 3. 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 8, 2013. Retrieved November 6, 2023.
3. "Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement". Archaeological Institute of America. Retrieved May 4, 2019.
4. Lawrence Richardson (1988). Pompeii: An Architectural History. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-3533-9.
5. 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 – via Google Books.
6. Lawrence Richardson, jr (2000). A Catalog of Identifiable Figure Painters of Ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae. JHU Pres s. ISBN 978-0-8018-6235-9 – via Google Books.
7. Ph.D. thesis