Russell T. Scott Jr. (born December 8, 1938, in Lewiston, Idaho – died May 28, 2024, in Ardmore, Pennsylvania) was a prominent American Classicist and Ancient Historian known especially for his archaeological fieldwork at the ancient colonial city of

Cosa Cosa was an ancient Roman city near the present Ansedonia in southwestern Tuscany, Italy. It is sited on a hill 113 m above sea level and 140 km northwest of Rome on the Tyrrhenian Sea coast. It has assumed a position of prominence in Ro ...

and in the area of the

House of the Vestals The House of the Vestal Virgins (; ) was the residence of Vestal Virgins, located behind the circular Temple of Vesta at the eastern edge of the Roman Forum, between the Regia and the Palatine Hill. The ''domus publica'', where the Pontifex Maxim ...

adjacent to the

Forum Romanum A forum (Latin: ''forum'', "public place outdoors", : ''fora''; English : either ''fora'' or ''forums'') was a public square in a municipium, or any civitas, of Ancient Rome reserved primarily for the vending of goods; i.e., a marketplace, along ...

Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...

. Scott was known by the nickname "Darby".

Life

Scott was educated at

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

(B.A. in Classics and Philosophy, 1960) and

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

(M.A. in classics, 1962; Ph.D. in classics, 1964). Scott joined the faculty of

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh language, Welsh: ) is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as a ...

in 1966 and taught there until his retirement in 2006. Frank Edward Brown supervised his work at Yale. While on the faculty at Bryn Mawr, Scott supervised 18 doctoral dissertations and 18 Master's-level papers.

Selected works

*1968. ''Religion and Philosophy in the Histories of Tacitus.'' Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome, Volume XXII. Rome: the American Academy in Rome. Pp. xiv, 139. *1993. with Vincent J. Bruno. ''Cosa IV: the houses'' University Park, Pa.: Published for the American Academy in Rome by the Pennsylvania State University Press. *1993. with Ann Reynolds Scott. edd. ''Eius Virtutis Studiosi: Classical and Postclassical Studies in Memory of Frank Edward Brown (1908-1988)''. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art. *2009. ''Excavations in the Area Sacra of Vesta (1987-1996)''. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Published for the American Academy in Rome by the University of Michigan Press. *2009. estschriftScott, Russell T., Paul B. Harvey, and Catherine Conybeare. ''Maxima Debetur Magistro Reverentia: Essays on Rome and the Roman Tradition in Honor of Russell T. Scott''. Como: New Press.

External links

Russell Scott obituary

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Russell T. Jr. 1938 births 2024 deaths Stanford University alumni Yale University alumni Bryn Mawr College faculty American classical archaeologists Historians of ancient Rome Classical scholars of Bryn Mawr College