Professor Emeritus of Classics
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
Tel.: 413-256-8637
e-mail: elwill@classics.umass.edu
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Professor Emeritus of Classics University of Massachusetts at Amherst Amherst, MA 01003 Tel.: 413-256-8637 e-mail: elwill@classics.umass.edu |
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Elizabeth Lyding Will is a specialist in Roman shipping amphoras and in Roman economic history. After receiving a Ph.D. degree in Greek and Latin from Bryn Mawr, she began her work on amphoras in 1950-1951, while holding the Thomas Day Seymour Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. From the beginning, her purpose was to use amphoras as a source of information about Roman trade. Basing her research on the extensive collection of Roman amphoras found in the American School's excavations of the Athenian Agora, she has worked on collections of amphoras throughout the Roman world. In Greece, in addition to the Athenian Agora, she has worked at the National Museum in Athens, the Kerameikos Excavations in Athens, and at Corinth, Delos, and elsewhere. She has also worked in Egypt, at Alexandria (Benaki Collection and Greco-Roman Museum) and Cairo; in Britain, chiefly at the British Museum and the former Guildhall Museum in London, as well as at Colchester, Douglas (Isle of Man), the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow; in Italy, at Cosa and the Port of Cosa, Rome, Ostia, Brindisi, Lecce, Taranto, Aquileia, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Florence, Fiesole, Syracuse, Lipari, and several collections in Sardinia, especially at Cagliari, Sassari, La Maddalena (Spargi wreck), Sant'Antioco, Ortu Còmidu, Oristano, and Porto Torres; in France, at Périgueux, Narbonne, Ensérune, St. Rémy, Arles, Marseilles, and Lyons; in Switzerland, at Basel, Augst, Sion, and Geneva; in Germany, at Tübingen, Munich, and Manching (Ingolstadt); in Belgium, at Tournai and Namur; in Croatia, at Split and Pula; in Spain at Barcelona, Ampurias, Seville, Pollentia (Mallorca), and Lanzarote (Canary Islands); in India, at Arikamedu, Pondicherry, Madras, and Delhi; and in Turkey at Selinus (Gazipasha), Bodrum, Alanya, and Antalya.
Dr. Will taught at Sweet Briar College, Dartmouth College, and the University of Texas at Austin before moving to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1971. After retiring from the University of Massachusetts in 1989, she served from 1989 to 1995 as Visiting Professor of Classics at Amherst College.
