Lawrence Richardson Jr. (December 2, 1920, in Altoona, Pennsylvania – July 21, 2013, in Durham, North Carolina)[1] was an American classicist and ancient historian educated at Yale University who was a member of the faculty of classics at Duke University from 1966 to 1991.
He was married to the classical archaeologist Emeline Hill Richardson.
Richardson received numerous fellowships, including a Fulbright and a Guggenheim, and support from the American Council of Learned Societies.
He was a resident of the American Academy in Rome (1979) and was its Mellon professor-in-charge of the School of Classical Studies (1981).
[2] In 2012 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America.