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STROUD, Ronald Sidney
- Date of Birth: July 8, 1933
- Born City: Toronto, Ontario
- Born State/Country: Canada
- Parents: William Henry George & Florence Greenwood S.
- Date of Death: October 7, 2021
- Death City: Berkeley
- Death State/Country: CA
- Married: Helen Conrad Mitchell, Athens, Greece, 1958.
- Education:
B.A. Toronto, 1957; teaching assistantship, Berkeley, 1957-9; Thomas Day Seymour Fellowship ASCSA, 1960-3; Ph.D., Berkeley, 1965.
- Dissertation:
“The Law of Drakon on Homicide” (Berkeley, 1965; revised as Drakon’s Law on Homicide (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1968).
- Professional Experience:
Secretary, ASCSA, 1963; Whitehead Professor, 1993–4; Mellon Professor, 1996–9; asst. prof., Berkeley, 1965; Chair of Classics, 1975–1977; Klio Distinguished Professor of Classical Studies, 2001-7; co-founder, Interdisciplinary Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology (AHMA), 1968; supporting founder, Sara B. Aleshire Center for the Study of Greek Epigraphy, 1999; co-editor, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 1979, later principal editor for over 25 years; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1977; visiting fell., King's College, 1977-8; Berkeley Citation, 2006; ASCSA Aristeia Award, 2013; ASCSA Athens Prize, 2018.
- Publications:
“A Fragment of an Inscribed Bronze Stele from Athens,” Hesperia 32 (1963) 138-43; “The Sanctuary of Demeter on Acrocorinth,” AJA 68 (1964) 201; “The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth. Preliminary Report, I (1961-1962),” Hesperia 34 (1965) 1-24; “Das Heiligtum der Demeter und Persephone vom Akrokorinth,” Das Altertum 11 (1965) 8-24; “Tribal Boundary Markers from Corinth,” AJA 72 (1968) 173; “The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth. Preliminary Report, II (1964-1965),” Hesperia 38 (1968) 299-330; “Aristotle A. P. 57,4 and the ephetai,” CP 63 (1968) 212; “An Inscription at Lebedos,” CSCA 3 (1970) 215-18; “Thucydides and the Battle of Solygeia,” CSCA 4 (1971) 227-47; “Inscriptions from the North Slope of the Acropolis, I,” Hesperia 40 (1971) 146-204; “Greek Inscriptions. Theozotides and the Athenian Orphans,” Hesperia 40 (1971) 280-301; “An Ancient Fort on Mount Oneion,” Hesperia 40 (1971) 127-45; “Greek Inscriptions at Corinth,” Hesperia 41 (1972) 198-217; “Inscriptions from the North Slope of the Acropolis, II,” Hesperia 41 (1972) 422-50; “A Law of the Athenian nomothetae,” AJA 76 (1972) 221; “A Hymn to Athena,” with Dina Peppas Delmousou, Archaiologika Analekta ex Athinon = Athens Annals of Archaeology 6 (1973) 293-5; “Curses from Corinth,” AJA 77 (1973) 228; “Three Attic Decrees,” CSCA 7 (1974) 279-98; “An Athenian Law on Silver Coinage,” Hesperia 43 (1974) 157-88; The axones and kyrbeis of Drakon and Solon (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1979); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum, XXVI: 1976-1977, ed. with H.W. Pleket (Alphen a.d.R, Netherlands: Sijthoff & Noordhoff, 1979); “Athens Honors King Evagoras of Salamis,” with David M. Lewis, Hesperia48 (1979) 180-93; “Two False Readings in an Attic Treasury-Inventory,” ZPE 46 (1982) 267-70; Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum, XXVIII, ed. with H.W. Pleket (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1982); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum, XXX: 1980, ed. with H.W. Pleket (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1983); “The Gravestone of Socrates' Friend, Lysis,” Hesperia 53 (1984) 355-60; Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum, XXXI: 1981, ed. with H.W. Pleket (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1984); “An Argive Decree from Nemea Concerning Aspendos,” Hesperia 53 (1984) 193-216; Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum, XXXII: 1982 ed. with H.W. Pleket (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1985); “Arthur Pullinger, an early traveler in Syria and Asia Minor,” with Thomas Drew-Bear & Christian Naour (Philadelphia: APhS, 1985); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum, XXXIII: 1983, ed. with H.W. Pleket (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1986); “’Wie es eigentlich gewesen’ and Thucydides 2.48.3,” Hermes 115 (1987) 379-82; Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum, XXXIV: 1984, ed. with H.W. Pleket (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1987); Demeter and Persephone in Ancient Corinth, with Nancy Bookidis (Princeton: ASCSA, 1987); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum, XXXV: 1985, ed. with H.W. Pleket (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1988); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum, XXXVI: 1986, ed. with H.W. Pleket (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1989); “Computer Based Projects in Epigraphy in North America, I,” in Épigraphie et informatique: actes du colloque (26-27 mai 1989), ed. Pierre Ducrey (Lausanne: Université de Lausanne, 1989) 141-5; Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum, XXXVII: 1987, ed. with H.W. Pleket (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1990); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum, XXXVIII: 1988, ed. with H.W. Pleket (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1991); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum, XXXIX: 1989, ed. with H.W. Pleket (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1992); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum: XL, 1990, ed. with H.W. Pleket (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1993); “Aristotle and the Athenians Homicide,” in Aristote et Athènes = Aristoteles and Athens: [actes de la table ronde Centenaire de l'Athenaion politeia], Fribourg (Suisse), 23-25 mai 1991, ed. Marcel Piérart (Fribourg: Séminaire d’histoire ancienne de l’université de Fribourg, 1993) 203-21; “The Aiakeion and Tholos of Athens in POxy 2087,” ZPE 103 (1994) 1-9; “Thucydides and Corinth,” Chiron 24 (1994) 267-304; Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum, XLI, 1991, ed. with H.W. Pleket (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1994); “The Empress Julia Domna at Epidauros Limera,” with Helen C. Stroud, ZPE 105 (1995) 85-8; Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. 42, 1992, ed. with H.W. Pleket & J.H.M. Strubbe (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1995); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. 43, 1993, ed. with H.W. Pleket & J.H.M. Strubbe (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1996); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. 44,: 1994, ed. with H.W. Pleket & J.H.M. Strubbe (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1997); “Two Athenian Decrees Concerning Lemnos of the Late First Century B.C.,” with Robert Morstein Kallet-Marx, Chiron 27 (1997) 155-94; Corinth: Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 18, The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore. 3, Topography and Architecture, with Nancy Bookidis (Princeton: ASCSA, 1997); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. 45,: 1995, ed. with A. Chaniotis & H.W. Pleket (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1998); The Athenian Grain-Tax Law of 374/3 B.C. (Princeton: ASCSA, 1998); “A Corinthian Epitaph,” Horos 10-12 (1992-8) 239-43; “The Progress of Attic Epigraphy to 400 B.C. in 1992-1997,” in XI Congresso Internazionale di Epigrafia Greca e Latina: Roma, 18-24 settembre 1997: atti (1999) 125-33; Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. 46, 1996, ed. with A. Chaniotis, H.W. Pleket, & J.H.M. Strubbe (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1999); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. 47, 1997, ed. with A. Chaniotis, H.W. Pleket, & J.H.M. Strubbe (Amsterdam: Gieben, 2000); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. 48, 1998, ed. with A. Chaniotis, H.W. Pleket, & J.H.M. Strubbe (Amsterdam: Gieben, 2001); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. 49, 1999, ed. with A. Chaniotis, H.W. Pleket, & J.H.M. Strubbe (Amsterdam: Gieben, 2002); “A Church with a Roman Inscription in Tairia, Monemvasia,” with Alexander G. Kalligas & Haris A. Kalligas, ABSA 97 (2002) 469-90; “The First Known Athenian Elektra?,” Horos 14-16 (2000-2003) 153-5; Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. 50, 2000, ed. with A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, & R.A. Tybout (Amsterdam: Gieben, 2003); “Apollo and the Archaic Temple at Corinth,” with Nancy Bookidis, Hesperia 73 (2004) 401-26; Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum 51, 2001, ed. with A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, & R.A. Tybout (Amsterdam: Gieben, 2005); The Athenian Empire on Stone: David M. Lewis Memorial Lecture, Oxford 2006 (Athens: Elliniki Epigrafiki Etaireia, 2006); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. 52, 2002, ed. with A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, & R.A. Tybout (Leiden: Brill, 2006); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. 53, 2003. 2, ed. with A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, & R.A. Tybout (Leiden: Brill, 2007); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. 54, 2004, ed. with A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, & R.A. Tybout (Leiden: Brill, 2008); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. 53, 1, 2003, ed. with A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, & R.A. Tybout (Leiden: Brill, 2008); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. 55, 2005, ed. with A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, & R.A. Tybout (Leiden: Brill, 2009); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. 56, 2006 ed. with A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, & R.A. Tybout (Leiden: Brill, 2010); “Future Research on the Athenian Grain Tax Law,” in Nuove ricerche sulla legge granaria ateniese del 374/3 a.C., ed. Anna Magnetto (Pisa: ETS, 2010) 235-42; Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. 57, 2007 ed. with A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, & R.A. Tybout (Leiden: Brill, 2011);Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. 58, 2008, ed. with A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, & R.A. Tybout, R. A. (Leiden: Brill, 2012); Corinth: Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 18, The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore. 6, The Inscriptions (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2013); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. 63, 2013, ed. with A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, N. Papazarkadas, Jan-Mathieu Carbon, M.B. Richardson & H.W. Pleket (Leiden: Brill, 2017); Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. 64, 2014, ed. with A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, J.M. Carbon, M.B. Richardson, H.W. Pleket, & Alexandru Avram (Leiden: Brill, 2018); “A Reappraisal of the Athena Promachos Accounts from the Acropolis (IG I3 435),” with Elizabeth Foley, Hesperia 88 (2019) 87-153; “No Introduction Needed: Sara Bavousett Aleshire” in Greek Epigraphy and Religion: Papers in Memory of Sara B. Aleshire from the Second North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, ed. Emily Mackil & Nikolaus Papazarkadas (Leiden: Brill, 2021) 5-7.
Festschrift: Άξων: Studies in Honor of Ronald S. Stroud, ed. Angelos P. Matthaiou & Nikolaos Papazarkadas (Athens: Elliniki Epigrafiki Etaireia, 2015).
- Sources:
https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/news/newsDetails/ronald-s-stroud-1933-2021; University of California Academic Senate; https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/news-and-events/news/tribute-to-ronald-s-stroud.