Lionel Casson (1914–2009)
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Sull'Autore
Lionel Casson, professor emeritus of classics at New York University has written many books on ancient maritime history and ancient travel.
Fonte dell'immagine: New York Times
Opere di Lionel Casson
Masters of ancient comedy; selections from: Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, [and] Terence (1960) 27 copie
Coins, culture and history in the ancient world : numismatic and other studies in honor of Bluma L. Trell (1981) — A cura di — 5 copie
The Thracians, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. (Vol. 35, number 1) Summer 1977 (1977) 2 copie
Who got here first?, 1 copia
Οι βιβλιοθήκες στον αρχαίο κόσμο 1 copia
Opere correlate
The American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1985) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 154 copie
The Menaechmus Twins, and Two Other Plays (The Norton Library, N602) (1960) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 103 copie
Thracian treasures from Bulgaria : [cat. exp., London, British Museum, Jan - March 1976; New York, Metropolitan Museum… (1976) — Introduzione — 43 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1991 (1991) — Author "Ancient Naval Warfare" — 18 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1989 (1989) — Author "Demetrius, Besieger of Cities" — 17 copie
Terra Marique: Studies in Art History and Marine Archaeology in Honor of Anna Marguerite McCann (2005) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Casson, Lionel
- Nome legale
- Cohen, Lionel I.
- Altri nomi
- Casson, Lionel Jim
- Data di nascita
- 1914-07-22
- Data di morte
- 2009-07-18
- Luogo di sepoltura
- New York, New York, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Causa della morte
- pneumonia
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- New York University (BA|1934 |MA|1936 |Ph.D|1939)
- Attività lavorative
- classicist
maritime historian
professor - Relazioni
- Casson, Julia (wife)
- Organizzazioni
- United States Navy
New York University
Trap Door Spiders - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Archaeological Institute of America Gold Medal (2005)
Guggenheim Fellowship (New York University, 1952) - Breve biografia
- 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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- Opere
- 26
- Opere correlate
- 9
- Utenti
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- Popolarità
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- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 45
- ISBN
- 86
- Lingue
- 10
- Preferito da
- 1