| LC control no. | n 78015822 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Shear, T. Leslie, Jr., 1938-2022 |
| Variant(s) | Shear, Theodore Leslie, 1938-2022 |
| See also | Employer: Princeton University |
| Birth date | 1938-05-01 |
| Death date | 2022-09-28 |
| Place of birth | Athens (Greece) |
| Field of activity | Classical antiquities Inscriptions |
| Affiliation | Bryn Mawr College Princeton University American School of Classical Studies at Athens |
| Profession or occupation | College teachers Classicists Archaeologists |
| Found in | 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) WW in the East, 1977-78 (Theodore Leslie Shear, b. 5/1/38) A votive relief from the Athenian Agora, 1973: title page (T. Leslie Shear, Jr.) Trophies of victory, 2016: title page (by T. Leslie Shear, Jr.) 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) 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) Princeton University Department of Art & Archaeology website, Sept. 30, 2022: (T. Leslie Shear Jr.; born 1938; died September 28, 2022) |
| Associated language | eng |
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