William Ridgeway
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sir William Ridgeway, FBA FRAI was an Anglo-Irish classical scholar and the Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. Early life and education Ridgeway was born 6 August 1853, in Ballydermot in King's County, Ireland, the son of Rev. John Henry Ridgeway and Marianne Ridgeway. He was a direct descendant of one of Cromwell's settlers in Ireland. He was educated at Portarlington School and Trinity College, Dublin, then studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge before entering Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he completed the Classical tripos in 1880.
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- The Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse (26)
- The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards (1892) (19)
- Psychology and Social Structure in the Republic of Plato. (1912) (17)
- The Origin of Tragedy (17)
- Euripides in Macedon (1926) (10)
- The early age of Greece (8)
- The Colours of Racehorses (1919) (7)
- The Origin of the Turkish Crescent. (1908) (6)
- The Homeric Talent, its Origin, Value, and Affinities (1887) (5)
- The date of the first shaping of the Cuchulainn saga (5)
- Presidential Address. The Influence of Environment on Man. (5)
- The Game of Polis and Plato's Rep. 422 E (1896) (4)
- What led Pythagoras to the Doctrine that the World was built of Numbers? (1896) (3)
- What People produced the Objects called Mycenean? (1896) (3)
- Niall ‘of the Nine Hostages’ in connexion with the treasures of Traprain Law and Ballinrees, and the destruction of Wroxeter, Chester, Caerleon and Caerwent (1924) (3)
- 7. The Origin of the Guitar and Fiddles. (2)
- III.—Had the People of Pre-historic Mycenae a Weight Standard? (1889) (2)
- The Early Age of GreeceThe Early Age of Greece Volume II (1932) (1)
- Presidential Address. The Relation of Anthropology to Classical Studies. (1)
- 84. An Irish Decorated, Socketed Bronze Axe. (1919) (1)
- The Origin of Tragedy: A Reply (1912) (1)
- The True Scene of the Second Act of the Eumenides of Aeschylus (1907) (1)
- “Professor Ridgeway's Theory of the Origin of Indian Drama”: a Surrejoinder (1917) (1)
- A New Variety of Zebra (1911) (1)
- II.—Pecus and Pecunia (1888) (0)
- IV.—How were the Primitive Weight Standards fixed? (1889) (0)
- I.—The Origin of the Stadion (1888) (0)
- Torr's Ancient Ships (1895) (0)
- The Homeric Land System (1885) (0)
- “Professor Ridgeway's Theory of the Origin of the Indian Drama”: A Reply (1916) (0)
- Cambridge and the Royal Commission (1922) (0)
- CAQ volume 20 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1926) (0)
- Are the Cambridgeshire Ditches Referred to by Tacitus (0)
- 52. Thorn Traps. (0)
- The Greek Trade-Routes To Britain (1890) (0)
- Monthly Record (1895) (0)
- 94. Note on the Motives Carved on Some Haida Totem Spoons and Pipes. (0)
- Rejoinder (1926) (0)
- The problem of our racial and national safety. (1915) (0)
- 29. On Two Wooden Maori Daggers. (1920) (0)
- Archaeology (1895) (0)
- Three Notes on the Poetic of Aristotle (1912) (0)
- Environment and Race (1908) (0)
- ‘Bassareus.’ (1896) (0)
- 57. Anthropology at the Universities. (0)
- Monthly Record (1895) (0)
- The Early Age of Greece. Vol. II (0)
- Leaf's Iliad (1890) (0)
- Bassareus (1896) (0)
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