Lionel Casson (1914–2009)
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Lionel Casson, professor emeritus of classics at New York University has written many books on ancient maritime history and ancient travel.
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Værker af Lionel Casson
Masters of ancient comedy; selections from: Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, [and] Terence (1960) 27 eksemplarer
The Periplus Maris Erythraei: Text with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (1989) 14 eksemplarer
Coins, culture and history in the ancient world : numismatic and other studies in honor of Bluma L. Trell (1981) — Redaktør — 5 eksemplarer
The Thracians, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. (Vol. 35, number 1) Summer 1977 (1977) 2 eksemplarer
Who got here first?, 1 eksemplar
Οι βιβλιοθήκες στον αρχαίο κόσμο 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1985) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 154 eksemplarer
The Menaechmus Twins, and Two Other Plays (The Norton Library, N602) (1960) — Oversætter, nogle udgaver — 103 eksemplarer
Thracian treasures from Bulgaria : [cat. exp., London, British Museum, Jan - March 1976; New York, Metropolitan Museum… (1976) — Introduktion — 43 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1991 (1991) — Author "Ancient Naval Warfare" — 18 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1989 (1989) — Author "Demetrius, Besieger of Cities" — 17 eksemplarer
Terra Marique: Studies in Art History and Marine Archaeology in Honor of Anna Marguerite McCann (2005) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Kanonisk navn
- Casson, Lionel
- Juridisk navn
- Cohen, Lionel I.
- Andre navne
- Casson, Lionel Jim
- Fødselsdato
- 1914-07-22
- Dødsdag
- 2009-07-18
- Begravelsessted
- New York, New York, USA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Dødssted
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Dødsårsag
- pneumonia
- Bopæl
- New York, New York, USA
- Uddannelse
- New York University (BA|1934 |MA|1936 |Ph.D|1939)
- Erhverv
- classicist
maritime historian
professor - Relationer
- Casson, Julia (wife)
- Organisationer
- United States Navy
New York University
Trap Door Spiders - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Archaeological Institute of America Gold Medal (2005)
Guggenheim Fellowship (New York University, 1952) - Kort biografi
- Lionel Casson was one of two sons in a Brooklyn Jewish family; his father owned a lumberyard. His original name was Lionel Cohen. He attended New York University for all his studies, earning a bachelor's degree in 1934, a master's in 1936 and his Ph.D. in 1939. He joined the faculty as an instructor and then served as an officer in the United States Navy during World War II. After the war, Prof. Casson returned to NYU, where he served as a professor of classics from 1961 to 1979. In 1952, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship that allowed him to examine the site of important ancient harbors on the coast of the Mediterranean. He wrote 23 books on maritime history and classic literature, using as his sources various ancient materials ranging from Demosthenes's speeches to ship cargo manifests and archeological studies of ancient shipwrecks and the contents of the amphorae they carried.
The New York Times said in his obituary that Prof. Casson "melded his mastery of classical literature with the findings of underwater archaeology in scholarly but accessible books about the history of ancient seafaring, from the primitive dory to the vast armadas of the Roman Empire."
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