Elizabeth Lyding Will

Elizabeth Lyding Will
Born1924
DiedAugust 19, 2009(2009-08-19) (aged 84–85)
Amherst, Massachusetts[1]
NationalityAmerican
OccupationArchaeologist
Known forRoman amphorae studies

Elizabeth Lyding Will (born 1924, died August 19, 2009, in Amherst, Massachusetts) was an American Classical archaeologist and a leading expert on Roman amphorae. She spent her long career teaching at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Amherst College.[2]

Will earned her bachelor's degree at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and undertook graduate study at Bryn Mawr College, earning an M.A. and a Ph.D. Her doctoral dissertation on "Homeric enjambment" was completed in 1949.[3]

Will is especially well known for her work on the typology of Roman amphorae. Her work on amphorae at the Latin colony of Cosa, completed jointly with Kathleen Warner Slane, appeared posthumously.[4] She carried out analysis of amphorae from a number of archaeological contexts in the Mediterranean, including the Athenian Agora, Delos and Cosa. In addition, she studied finds from the Roman shipwreck site at Grand Congloué.[5]

  1. ^ "Obituary: Elizabeth L. Will, professor emeritus of classics and authority on amphoras". Office of News & Media Relations | UMass Amherst. Archived from the original on 2019-07-24. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  2. ^ RAUH, NICHOLAS K. (2010). "Elizabeth Lyding Will, 1924–2009". American Journal of Archaeology. 114 (3): 547–548. doi:10.3764/aja.114.3.547. JSTOR 25684293.
  3. ^ Benjamin Wynn Fortson (1996). Studies in the prosody of Plautine Latin: a thesis. Harvard University.
  4. ^ Kathleen Slane; Elizabeth L Will (3 January 2019). Cosa: The Roman and Greek Amphoras. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-13143-3.
  5. ^ Anna Marguerite McCann (14 March 2017). The Roman Port and Fishery of Cosa: A Center of Ancient Trade. Princeton University Press. pp. 32–. ISBN 978-1-4008-8668-5.