Life

Ridgway studied Classics at University College London

University College London

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 under Professors Webster, Skutch and Robertson. After graduating in 1960 he went on to post graduate studies in European and Mediterranean Archaeology in Oxford

Oxford

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 under Professor C.F.C. Hawkes

Charles Francis Christopher Hawkes

Charles Francis Christopher Hawkes FBA, FSA was an English archaeologist and a professor of European prehistory at Oxford University ....

. From 1968 he taught first as Lecturer and subsequently Reader in Archaeology and finally as Reader in Classics at the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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, where his wife Francesca Romana Serra Ridgway was an honorary fellow for years. (In the archaeology department.) Ridgway and his wife retired in 2003 and moved to London where they both were awarded with an associate level of Fellow

Fellow

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ship at the Institute of Classical Studies

Institute of Classical Studies

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 associated with the University of London

University of London

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A festschrift

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in honor of Ridgway and his wife was published in 2006 with the title Across Frontiers: Etruscans, Greeks, Phoenicians & Cypriots. Studies in honour of David Ridgway and Francesca Romana Serra Ridgway.

Selected publications

• 1979 Italy Before the Romans (editor), Academic Press, ISBN 0125880200
• 1992 The First Western Greeks, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521421640
• 1993 Pithekoussai I, Giorgio Bretschneider, ISBN 8876890742
• 2002 The World of the Early Etruscans, Paul Åströms Förlag, ISBN 917081189X