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Lawrence Richardson, Jr.

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American classical philologist and archaeologist (1920-2013)

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Lawrence Richardson Jr. 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.

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2012Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America
1958Guggenheim Fellowship
1950Rome Prize

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Lawrence Richardson Jr. 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). In 2012 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America.

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Lived 1920 to 2013 · aged 92
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