Lawrence Richardson Jr. (December 2, 1920, in

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– July 21, 2013, in

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) was an American classicist and ancient historian educated at

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who was a member of the faculty of classics at

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from 1966 to 1991. He was married to the classical archaeologist

Emeline Hill Richardson Emeline Hurd Hill Richardson ( Hill; June 6, 1910, Buffalo, New York – August 29, 1999, Durham, North Carolina) was an American classical archaeologist and Etruscan scholar. Hill was the daughter of William Hurd Hill and Emeleen (Carlisle) H ...

. Richardson received numerous fellowships, including a

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and a Guggenheim, and support from the

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. He was a

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of the

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(1950) and field director of the Academy's

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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). In 2012 he was awarded the

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. Richardson's research included interests in Roman domestic architecture, the sites of

Pompeii Pompeii ( ; ) was a city in what is now the municipality of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy. Along with Herculaneum, Stabiae, and Villa Boscoreale, many surrounding villas, the city was buried under of volcanic ash and p ...

and

, and Roman wall painting.

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 Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age. He was born around 50–45 BC in Assisium (now Assisi) and died shortly after 15 BC. Propertius' surviving work comprises four books of '' Elegies'' ('). He was a friend of the ...

: Elegies I-IV : Ed., with introd. and commentary''. Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press. . * 1988: ''Pompeii: an architectural history''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. . * 1992: ''A new topographical dictionary of ancient Rome''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. . * 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: estschriftL. 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. . * 2000: ''A catalog of identifiable figure painters of ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Articles

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.Ph.D. thesis
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Necrology

*"Lawrence Richardson, Jr., FAAR'50, RAAR'79"

Society of Fellow
''The News & Observer'' on July 25, 2013

External links

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Richardson, Lawrence 1920 births 2013 deaths American historians Duke University faculty Yale University alumni American classical archaeologists