The Athenian Agora, evidence and interpretation
Homer A. Thompson
by Homer A. Thompson
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Transcript of an interview conducted for the Oral Documentation Project at the Getty Research Institute. The project began in 1991 as a collaboration with the Oral History Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and was later solely operated by the Getty.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Open for qualified researchers.
Transcripts of the interviews jointly sponsored by the Getty and UCLA are also located at UCLA and in the Bancroft Library at Berkeley.
Homer Armstrong Thompson (1906-2000) was a classical archaeologist who played a prominent role in the excavation of the Agora in Athens. He taught archeology at the University of Toronto (1933-1947) and served as Assistant Director and Curator of the Classical Collection of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. In 1947, he was appointed Director of the Agora excavations and became a member of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton. Thompson also taught at Columbia, Princeton, and Oxford. He was married to Dorothy Burr (1900-2001), the first woman to be appointed a Fellow of the Athenian Agora excavations.
Forms of part: Interviews with art historians (Special Collections, accn. 940109)
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