Arthur E. Gordon
American archaeologist and classical philologist
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- PhD Classical Philology University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Arthur Ernest Gordon was an American classical philologist and epigraphist. Life and career Born in Marlborough, Vermont, Gordon studied classical philology at Dartmouth College, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1923. He continued his studies at the American Academy in Rome. In 1925 he became a lecturer in Latin at Dartmouth College and in 1928 at Western Reserve University. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1929, where he worked with Tenney Frank, and afterwards briefly taught Latin and Ancient History at the University of Vermont. Gordon was invited to the University of California at Berkeley as Sather Professor for 1929, and upon the recommendation of Frank, the Classics Department appointed Arthur as Assistant Professor of Latin in 1930, where he taught for 40 years, and served as its chairman from 1953 to 1959. During his 1948/1949 sabbatical, Gordon received a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. In 1952 he was president of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast. From 1955 to 1956 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright Fellow. After retiring, Gordon taught at college in Ashland, Ohio and at Ohio State University.
Arthur E. Gordon's Published Works
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- The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. I: Inscriptions on Stone (1966) (59)
- Notes on the "Res Gestae" of Augustus (1968) (49)
- Illustrated introduction to Latin epigraphy (1983) (47)
- On the Origins of the Latin Alphabet: Modern Views (1969) (27)
- On the Origin of Diana (1932) (22)
- The Cults Of Aricia (1934) (17)
- Contributions to the palaeography of Latin inscriptions (1958) (14)
- The Official Priests of Rome under the Julio-Claudians (1958) (14)
- Album of dated Latin inscriptions (1960) (10)
- The Cults of the Sabine Territory (1940) (9)
- The cults of Lanuvium (1938) (7)
- Roman Civilization: Selected Readings (1953) (6)
- The inscribed fibula Praenestina: Problems of authenticity (1975) (6)
- Supralineate abbreviations in Latin inscriptions (1950) (3)
- Roman Names and the Consuls of A. D. 13 (1951) (3)
- Seven Latin Inscriptions in Rome (1951) (3)
- A mysterious Latin inscription in California (1944) (2)
- Potitus Valerius Messalla consul suffect 29 B.C. (1956) (2)
- Album of Dated Latin Inscriptions. I: Rome and the Neighborhood, Augustus to Nerva (1958) (2)
- Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy@@@Epigrafia romana (1986) (1)
- Publilius Memorialis and CIL, XI, 7554 (= Dessau, 9195) (1952) (1)
- The letter names of the Latin alphabet (1973) (1)
- The Roman brick-stamps (1967) (1)
- On the Date of the Consul Suffect, A.D. 15 (1955) (1)
- The Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, 1937 (1937) (0)
- Album of Dated Latin Inscriptions. II. Rome and the Neighborhood, A.D. 100-199 (1966) (0)
- To Father, With Love: Wisdom from Guideposts (1995) (0)
- Review Article (1968) (0)
- The Story of a Guilty Town (1950) (0)
- An American myth : James Dickey's "The Zodiac" (1983) (0)
- Vespasian and Titus as Consuls A.D. 70 (1955) (0)
- An Anecdote about Georg Wissowa and Alfred Emerson (1983) (0)
- The Philological Association of the Pacific Coast (1935) (0)
- More on the Consuls of A. D. 13 (1953) (0)
- Vergil's Funeral Game for Anchises (1990) (0)
- Further Light on the "Mystery" Inscription in California (1947) (0)
- The fundamentals of a neurosis. (1947) (0)
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