Lawrence Richardson Jr. Explained

Birth Date:	2 December 1920
Birth Place:	Altoona, Pennsylvania, US
Death Place:	Durham, North Carolina, US
Spouse:	Emeline Hill Richardson

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. .
• 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: [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. .
• 2000: A catalog of identifiable figure painters of ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Articles

• March 1957 . Cosa and Rome: Comitium and Curia . Archaeology . 10 . 1 . 49-55 . subscription.

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 http://www.aarome.org/people/alumni/sof/obituaries/lawrence-richardson,-jr.,-faar'50,-raar'79
• The News & Observer on July 25, 2013

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lawrence Richardson Jr., FAAR'50, RAAR'79 . American Academy in Rome . 2019-05-04 . 2019-05-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190504182058/https://www.aarome.org/people/alumni/sof/obituaries/lawrence-richardson-jr.%2C-faar%2750%2C-raar%2779 . dead.
   - Web site: Lawrence Richardson Jr. '42, '52 PhD Obituaries . Yale Alumni Magazine . 2019-05-04.
2. Gold Medal Citation from AIA for Lawrence Richardson, jr. Jan 6, 2012 . Duke University . Classical Studies . 2012 . 16 . 3 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130308220747/http://classicalstudies.duke.edu/uploads/media_items/newsletter-2012.original.pdf . 2013-03-08 . 6 November 2023 .
3. Web site: Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement. Archaeological Institute of America. 2019-05-04.
4. Book: Lawrence Richardson . Pompeii: An Architectural History . registration . 1988 . Johns Hopkins University Press . 978-0-8018-3533-9.
5. Book: Frank Edward Brown . Emeline Hill Richardson . Lawrence Richardson . Cosa III: the buildings of the forum : colony, municipium, and village . 1993 . Published for the American Academy in Rome by Pennsylvania State University Press . 978-0-271-00825-7 . Google Books.
6. Book: A Catalog of Identifiable Figure Painters of Ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae . Lawrence Richardson, jr . JHU Pres s. 2000. 978-0-8018-6235-9 . Google Books.
7. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80545147 Ph.D. thesis