New Light from Ancient Cosa: Classical Mediterranean Studies in Honor of Cleo Rickman Fitch

by Goldman, Norma Wynick; Fitch, Cleo Rickman

• ISBN13: 9780820451411
• ISBN10: 082045141X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Author Biography

Eric Baade, 1928-98, was Chairman of Classics at Brooks School in North Andover, Mass., at his death in 1998 Larissa Bonfante: At New York University she serves as Professor and past Chair of the Department of Classics Blanche R. Brown is Professor Emerita at New York University Vincent J. Bruno is Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas, Arlington Theodore V. Buttrey currently lives in Cambridge, England, where he was Keeper of Coins at the Fitzwilliam Museum from 1988 to 1991 Lionel Casson served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Classics at New York University, from which institution he had received his doctorate. He was Director of the Summer Session in Classical Studies for the American Academy in Rome 1963-65 and Mellon Professor at the Academy in 1981-82. The recipient of two Guggenheim fellowships, he serves on the editorial advisory board of Archaeology and The American Neptune magazines Jacquelyn Collins-Clinton received her doctorate from Columbia University in 1970. She has taught at Ithaca College, Cornell University, University of California at Berkeley, Wells College, and Southern Connecticut State College. She has been the recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship in Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome and two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for study abroad Elaine K. Gazda is Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan and Curator and former Director of the University's Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Norma Wynick Goldman is presently on the faculty of the College of Lifelong Learning at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan Anne Laidlaw is Professor Emerita from Hollins College. Anna Marguerite McCann is a pioneering woman in the field of underwater archaeology and is a leading authority on ancient Roman sculpture. She is currently Adjunct Professor at Boston University and at Trinity College, Hartford, and she is Archaeological Director for the Mediterranean Skerki Bank Project for the Institute for Exploration at Mystic, Connecticut Centennial Professor Emerita Helen F. North taught at Swarthmore College from 1948 until her retirement in 1991 Portia Paradise received her B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She attended the Istituto Centrale del Restauro in Rome For ten summers she worked at Cosa as conservator in the Cosa Site Museum During the year she worked at the American Academy in Rome on archaeological objects excavated at Cosa. She returned to the United States in 1977, where she worked part of each year for the Department of Classical Art at the Art Institute of Chicago and helped to install four exhibitions Lawrence Richardson, jr, is Professor Emeritus at Duke University in Durham, N.C. Russell T. Scott (Darby) is Doreen C. Spitzer Professor of Classical Studies and Latin at Bryn Mawr College Elizabeth Lyding Will is a world authority on ancient amphoras. She received her doctorate from Bryn Mawr College in 1949 and followed that with a year in 1950-51 at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens as a Thomas Day Seymour Fellow. She has taught at Bryn Mawr College, Dartmouth College, University of Texas at Austin, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Amherst College.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Preface	xv
Introduction	1	(6)
Norma Wynick Goldman
Tributes to Cleo Rickman Fitch
James Marston Fitch	7	(1)
Adele Chatfield-Taylor	8	(2)
Norma Wynick Goldman	10	(3)
Lamps and the Dating of Roman Ports and Ships	13	(22)
Anna Marguerite McCann
Defining the Regna Vini of the Sestii	35	(14)
Elizabeth Lyding Will
Sestius Noster	49	(8)
Lawrence Richardson, jr
Cosa's Maritime Neighbors	57	(26)
Vincent J. Bruno
Cosa 1953 and the Lamps of the Atrium Publicum	83	(8)
Eric Baade
Annum Novum Faustum Felicem: The Cosa New Year's Lamp	91	(16)
Norma Wynick Goldman
The Cosa Site Museum	107	(4)
Russell T. Scott
Conservation in the Cosa Site Museum	111	(6)
Portia Paradise
The Coins from Cosa	117	(6)
Theodore V. Buttrey
Dionysus in the Garden	123	(22)
Jacquelyn Collins-Clinton
Cosa's Contribution to the Study of Roman Hydraulic Concrete: An Historiographic Commentary	145	(34)
Elaine K. Gazda
Hestia and Vesta: Non-identical Twins	179	(10)
Helen F. North
An Etruscan Relief from Chiusi	189	(12)
Larissa Bonfante
No Where, No When, and a Wistful What: The American Academy's Collection of Roman Plaster	201	(18)
Anne Laidlaw
Ex Itinere Lux: The Trials of Travel in Ancient Italy	219	(8)
Lionel Casson
How Deinokrates Invented Alexandria	227	(22)
Blanche R. Brown
Notes on Contributors	249	(6)
Index	255