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Shear, T. Leslie, Jr., 1938-2022


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    • Theodore Leslie
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    • Shear, Theodore Leslie, 1938-2022
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    • found: Kallias of Sphettos and the revolt of Athens in 286 B.C., 1978:title page (T. Leslie Shear, Jr.) CIP data sheet (b. 5/1/38)
    • found: WW in the East, 1977-78(Theodore Leslie Shear, b. 5/1/38)
    • found: A votive relief from the Athenian Agora, 1973:title page (T. Leslie Shear, Jr.)
    • found: Trophies of victory, 2016:title page (by T. Leslie Shear, Jr.)
    • found: Princeton University, via WWW, February 6, 2017(T. Leslie Shear, Jr., Professor emeritus, Classical Archaeology; Ph. D., Princeton University, 1966; T. Leslie Shear's particular interests lie in classical Greek architecture and epigraphy; he has worked extensively on the topography and monuments of classical Athens and was director of the excavations in the Athenian Agora from 1968 to 1994; he has recently completed the manuscript of a book on the Periclean building program in the 5th century BCE)
    • found: Wikipedia, February 6, 2017(T. Leslie Shear, Jr. (full name Theodore Leslie Shear, Jr., born May 1, 1938 in Athens) is an American classical archaeologist; he is the son of archaeologists Theodore Leslie Shear (1880-1945) and Josephine Platner Shear (1901-1967); he studied at the University of Princeton (A.B. 1959, M.A. 1963, Doctorate 1966); in 1959/1960 he was a fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens; from 1964 to 1967, he taught at Bryn Mawr College, from 1966 as assistant professor; from 1967 until his retirement, he taught classical archeology at the University of Princeton (1967 assistant professor, 1970 associate professor, 1979 professor); from 1988 to 1994, he was Professor of Classical Archeology at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens; he participated in numerous excavations, such as Mycenae (1953-1954, 1958, 1962-1963, 1965-1966), Eleusis (1956), Perati (1956), Corinth (1960) and Morgantina (1962); from 1968 to 1994 he was the director of the excavations on the Agora of Athens, which his father had begun in 1931; his research is mainly devoted to the architecture and epigraphy of classical Greece, especially the topography of Athens; in 1959 he married the archaeologist Ione Mylonas (1936-2005), daughter of the archaeologist George E. Mylonas; his daughter Julia L. Shear (1968-) is also an archaeologist)
    • found: Princeton University Department of Art & Archaeology website, Sept. 30, 2022:(T. Leslie Shear Jr.; born 1938; died September 28, 2022)
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    • 1978-03-31: new
    • 2023-09-07: revised
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