Lewis Richard Packard was an American scholar, best known for his work, ‘’Morality and Religion of the Greeks’’.

He graduated from Yale in 1856 with the intention of entering the ministry, but following a year of study at Berlin in 1857-8, a tour of Greece confirmed him as a Hellenist.

[1] He returned to Yale and served as tutor (1859–63), and upon receipt of his Ph.D. in 1863, he was hired as Professor of Greek at the age of 27.

In 1881 he published his most significant work, ‘’Morality and Religion of the Greeks’’ and was a leader in the founding of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, of which he was its second director, succeeding William Watson Goodwin in 1883-4.

[2] Following a trip to Athens to visit the school during his directorship, he fell ill and died in New Haven on October 26, 1884 at the age of 48.