David Ridgway (11 May 1938 – 20 May 2012 in

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) was a British scholar of Italian archaeology and the

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Life

Born in Athens, Greece, Ridgway studied Classics at

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under Professors Webster, Skutsch and Robertson. After graduating in 1960 he went on to post graduate studies in European and Mediterranean Archaeology in

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under Professor C.F.C. Hawkes. From 1968 he taught first as Lecturer and subsequently Reader in Archaeology and finally as Reader in Classics at the

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, where his wife Francesca Romana Serra Ridgway was an honorary fellow for years. (In the archaeology department.) Ridgway and his wife retired in 2003 and moved to London where they both were awarded with an associate level of

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ship at the

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associated with the

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. A

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in honor of Ridgway and his wife was published in 2006 with the title ''Across Frontiers: Etruscans, Greeks, Phoenicians & Cypriots. Studies in honour of David Ridgway and Francesca Romana Serra Ridgway''.

Necrology

#Sinclair Bell, Richard Daniel De Puma, Lisa C. Pieraccini, and Stephan Steingräber. "In Memoriam: David Ridgway (1938–2012)". ''Etruscan Studies'' 15.2 (2012): 238–242. DOI 10.1515/etst-2012-0012. #Phil Davison. "David Ridgway." ''Herald Scotland'
Wednesday 13 June 2012
# "David Ridgway." ''The Times'
11 June 2012

Selected publications

* 1979 ''Italy Before the Romans'' (editor), Academic Press, * 1992 ''The First Western Greeks'', Cambridge University Press, * 1993 ''Pithekoussai I'', Giorgio Bretschneider, * 2002 ''The World of the Early Etruscans'', Paul Åströms Förlag,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ridgway, David Academics of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of University College London Linguists of Etruscan British classical archaeologists 1938 births 2012 deaths