T. Leslie Shear, Jr.

T. Leslie Shear, Jr. (full name Theodore Leslie Shear, Jr. , born May 1, 1938 in Athens ) is an American classical archaeologist .

T. Leslie Shear, Jr. is the son of archaeologists Theodore Leslie Shear (1880-1945) and Josephine Platner Shear (1901-1967). He studied at Princeton University ( AB 1959, MA 1963, PhD 1966). In 1959/60 he was a fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens . 1964 to 1967 he taught at Bryn Mawr College , from 1966 as an assistant professor . From 1967 until his retirement he taught classical archeology at Princeton University (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 took part in numerous excavations, so in Mycenae (1953–54; 1958, 1962–63, 1965–66), Eleusis (1956), Perati (1956), Corinth (1960) and Morgantina (1962). From 1968 to 1994 he was in charge of the excavations on the Agora of Athens , which his father had started 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.

Publications (selection)

• Studies in the early projects of the Periclean building program . Dissertation Princeton 1966.
• Kallias of Sphettos and the Revolt of Athens in 286 BC (= Hesperia Supplement 17). American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton, NJ 1978, ISBN 0-87661-517-5 .

literature

• Who's Who in America . 62nd edition. New Providence, NJ 2008, Vol. 2, p. 4268.

Web links

• Princeton University website