Sterling Dow
American art historian and archaeologist
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Sterling Dow's Degrees
- Masters Archaeology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Art History Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sterling Dow was an American classical archaeologist, epigrapher, and professor of archaeology at Harvard University. After secondary education at Phillips Exeter Academy, Dow matriculated in 1921 at Harvard University and graduated there in 1925 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy. As the winner of the Fiske Scholarship, Dow spent the academic year 1925–1926 studying ancient history at Trinity College, Cambridge. Returning to Harvard in 1926, he graduated with M.A. in 1928 and Ph.D. in history in 1936. His doctoral supervisor was the Canadian ancient historian William Scott Ferguson . Dow married Elizabeth Sanderson Flagg in 1931. Sterling and Elizabeth Dow spent the years from 1931 to 1936 in Athens, Greece and often worked together on making paper impressions of stone inscriptions unearthed from the Ancient Agora of Athens by excavations sponsored by the American School of Classical Studies.
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Published Works
- Aristotle, the Kleroteria, and the Courts (1939) (52)
- The Walls Inscribed with Nikomakhos' Law Code (1961) (44)
- Corinth: Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1945) (38)
- Latin Calligraphy at Hawara: P. Hawara 24 (1968) (38)
- The Greater Demarkhia of Erchia (1965) (30)
- The Egyptian Cults in Athens (1937) (27)
- Studies presented to Sterling Dow on his eightieth birthday (1984) (20)
- A Leader of the Anti-Roman Party in Athens in 88 B. C. (1942) (20)
- Six Athenian sacrificial Calendars (1968) (19)
- The Athenian Agora: A Guide to the Excavation and Museum (1963) (19)
- The Athenian Anagrapheis (1963) (17)
- Dikasts' Bronze Pinakia (1963) (15)
- Prytaneis: A Study of the Inscriptions Honoring the Athenian Councillors (1937) (15)
- Thucydides and the Number of Acharnian Hoplitai (1961) (14)
- Panathenaic Amphorae from the Hellenistic Period (1936) (14)
- Chryseis: A Study of the Evidence in Regard to the Mother of Philip V (1937) (13)
- The First Enneëteric Delian Pythaïs IG II 2336 (1940) (13)
- The Guardians, Socrates, and Board "In Prytaneion" (1944) (9)
- Demetrios of Phaleron and His Lawgiving (1943) (9)
- The Greek Cult Table (1965) (9)
- A Family of Sculptors from Tyre (1941) (7)
- Conventions in Editing: A Suggested Reformulation of the Leiden System (1970) (7)
- The Foot of Sarapis (1944) (6)
- The Lists of Athenian Archontes (1934) (5)
- The law codes of Athens (1959) (4)
- A Sacred Calendar of Eleusis (1966) (4)
- Minoan Writing (1954) (4)
- Corinthiaca. I. The Month Phoinikaios (1942) (4)
- Athenian Decrees of 216-212 B. C. (1937) (3)
- Corinth: Results of Excavations (1967) (3)
- The Athenian Epheboi; Other Staffs, and the Staff of the Diogeneion (1960) (3)
- Excavations at Olynthus. Part X, Metal and Minor Miscellaneous Finds: An Original Contribution to Greek Life (with a New, Up-to-Date Map of Olynthus). By David M. Robinson. [The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Archaeology, edited by David M. Robinson.] (1942) (3)
- The Linear Scripts and the Tablets as Historical Documents (1973) (2)
- Place Names of Southwest Peloponnesus: Register and Indexes (1969) (2)
- A Land Called Crete. A Symposium in Memory of Harriet Boyd Hawes (1969) (2)
- The Athenian Honors for Aristonikos of Karystos, "Alexander's σφαιριστησ" (1963) (2)
- Ptolemaic Alexandria. Volume 1, Text; volume 2, Notes; volume 3, Indexes (1974) (2)
- An Amphora with a Price Inscription in the Hearst Collection at San Simeon (1942) (2)
- Corinthiaca: VI. The Latin Elegiacs of ca. 101 B. C. VII. Greek Elegiacs of the Roman Empire (1951) (2)
- The Volumes of Arkhaiologike Ephemeris in Honor of G. P. Oikonomos (1974) (2)
- The Greeks in the Bronze Age (1960) (1)
- The Preambles of Athenian Decrees Containing Lists of Symproedroi (1963) (1)
- Epigraphica Attica. Benjamin Dean Meritt (1942) (1)
- A)Literacy in Minoan and Mycenaean lands . (B)The linear B tablets as historical documents (1965) (1)
- Mycenaean Arithmetic and Numeration (1958) (1)
- The Purported Decree of Themistokles: Stele and Inscription (1962) (1)
- The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire: Rostovtzeff's Classic After Thirty-Three Years (1960) (1)
- The Bouleutic List of 304/3 B.C. (1966) (1)
- The Statue of the Damaskenos at the American School at Athens (1965) (1)
- Archaeological Indexes: A Review Article (1950) (1)
- New Kinds of Evidence for Dating Polyeuktos (1936) (1)
- Bibliography of the Purported Themistokles Inscription from Troizen (1962) (1)
- Healing Deities on Pentelikon (1982) (1)
- Impressions of Classical Festschriften (1963) (1)
- Athletic Agones in Roman Athens Honoring Tykhe Poleos (1979) (1)
- Documents, Decipherment, Nestor, and Bibliographie (1969) (1)
- Notes on Three Decrees of B. C. 306/5 (1933) (1)
- Fifty years of Sathers : the Sather professorship of classical literature in the University of California, Berkeley, 1913/4-1963/4 (1965) (1)
- 3 Aristotle, the Kleroteria, and the Courts (2004) (0)
- Letter from Sterling Dow to Emmett Bennett Jr., June 14, 1953 (1953) (0)
- The Bibliography of Classical Studies: A Review Article (1954) (0)
- Letter from Sterling Dow to Emmett Bennett Jr., December 25, 1959 (1959) (0)
- Letter from Sterling Dow to Emmett Bennett Jr., February 24, 1953 (1953) (0)
- The Origins of Greek Civilization, 1100–650 B.C. By Chester G. Starr. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1961. Pp. xviii, 385, x. $8.50.) (1962) (0)
- The Aigaleos-Parnes Wall (1942) (0)
- Necrology: William Scott Ferguson (1954) (0)
- Letter from Sterling Dow to Emmett Bennett Jr., December 14, 1959 (1959) (0)
- Archons of the Period after Sulla (1949) (0)
- The Lettering of an Athenian Mason@@@The Study of Lettering (1977) (0)
- A Greek Passage Erroneously Identified (1960) (0)
- Letter from Sterling Dow to Emmett Bennett Jr., December 13, 1959 (1959) (0)
- Studies in the Athenian Tribute Lists, III (1941) (0)
- New Readings in the Archon Lists I. G.2 II, 1713 and 1716 (1933) (0)
- A Greek Passage Correctly Assigned (1960) (0)
- The Decree of the Athenian Garrisons Honoring Theophrastos I.G. 2 II 1303 (1933) (0)
- Lakhares, a Rare Athenian Name (1957) (0)
- Alphabetized Inscriptions from Smyrna in Bowdoin and Leyden (1963) (0)
- Letter from Sterling Dow to Alice E. Kober, August 10, 1946 (1946) (0)
- Book Review:Athenian Tribal Cycles in the Hellenistic Age William Scott Ferguson (1934) (0)
- The Parties who Honoured Paulina in Aspendos (1962) (0)
- Latin among the Administrators (1953) (0)
- The Oxford Classical Dictionary: Classical Studies at the Mid-Century. A Review (1951) (0)
- P. M. Fraser. Ptolemaic Alexandria. Volume 1, Text; volume 2, Notes; volume 3, Indexes. New York: Oxford University Press. 1972. Pp. xvi, 812; xiv, 1116; vi, 158. $80.00 the set (1974) (0)
- A History of Greek Literature. By Albin Lesky. Translated by James Willis and Cornelius de Heer. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. 1966. Pp. xviii, 921. $15.00.) (1967) (0)
- Letter from Sterling Dow to Emmett Bennett Jr., October 15, 1968 (1968) (0)
- Studies in the Athenian Tribute Lists. I (1942) (0)
- The List of Archontes, I.G. 2 II 1706 (1933) (0)
- The Classical Authors since 1900: Platnauer's "Fifty Years of Classical Scholarship". A Review-Article (Continued) (1956) (0)
- The Critico-Interpretive Teacher (1955) (0)
- Three Athenian Decrees: Method in the Restoration of Preambles (1963) (0)
- Studies in the Athenian Tribute Lists. II (1943) (0)
- The Attic Demes OA and OE (1963) (0)
- A Red-Figured Lekythos with the kalos-Name fainippos (0)
- Necrology: Alice Elizabeth Kober, George H. McFadden, Alice Walton (1954) (0)
- The "Axon": Inscriptiones Graecae I2 2 (1961) (0)
- Book Review:The Chronology of Hellenistic Athens William Kendrick Pritchett, Benjamin Dean Meritt (1943) (0)
- The Roman Letter. James Hayes (1953) (0)
- Letter from Sterling Dow to Emmett Bennett Jr., March 11, 1958 (1958) (0)
- A Fragment of a Colossal Acrolithic Statue in the Conservatori (1944) (0)
- The Natural Resources Inventory as a Basis for Community Land Use Decisions (1976) (0)
- Uniform Style (1952) (0)
- Book Review:Essays in Greek History and Literature A. W. Gomme (1939) (0)
- Addendum to Hesperia, III (1934), No. 17 (1935) (0)
- The Ephemeris, and Dates of Discovery Given by Pittakes (1968) (0)
- Greek after the War (1944) (0)
- Prytaneis: A Study of the Inscriptions Honoring the Athenian Councillors (Hesperia Supplement vol 1) (1939) (0)
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