Description
This collection pertains to Raubitschek's interest in Greek ostraka and the historical
knowledge generated from their study; included in the collection are his historiography
notes, correspondence, lists of ostraka, and photographs of ostraka. Correspondents include
Eugene Vanderpool, C. W. J. Eliot, A. W. Gomme, James W. Alexander, Kurt Latte, and Kendrick
Pritchett.
Background
At the time of his death in 1999, Antony E. Raubitschek was the Sadie Dernham Patek
Professor of Humanities Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Classics at Stanford University.
Educated at the University of Vienna, he joined the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
in 1938 and taught at Yale before moving to Stanford in 1963 as Professor of Classics.