Richard Hope Simpson

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Hope Simpson was born on 12 May 1930, the middle of three brothers.{{sfn|James Reid Funeral Home|2016}} His father, John Whitwell Hope Simpson,{{sfn|Pease|2021|p=72}} was a GP.{{sfn|Hudson|2020|p=114}} He was a distant relative of Sir John Hope Simpson, the civil servant, MP and diplomat.{{sfn|Pease|2021|pp=71–72}}

He studied literae humaniores (Classics) at St John's College in the University of Oxford,{{sfn|Whyte|2017|p=68}} matriculating in 1950. After graduating, he remained at Oxford for the 1954–1955 academic year to pursue a Diploma in Classical Archaeology. His tutor was Dorothea Gray, to whom he later credited his interest in Greek prehistory, and with whom he would undertake some of his early survey work in Greece.{{sfn|Hope Simpson|2014|p=xiii}}

While at Oxford, he attended the British School at Athens's undergraduate summer course, where he met then-director Sinclair Hood. He continued to the University of London to study for his PhD From 1956 to 1958, he returned to the British School at Athens on a school studentship.{{sfn|Hope Simpson|1965|p=i}} He submitted his thesis, The Topography of Mycenaean Greece in Relation to the Achaean Section of the Homeric Catalogue of the Ships, in November 1962.{{sfn|Hope Simpson|1965|p=i}}

In 1959, Hope Simpson was awarded the first{{sfn|Hope Simpson|1965|p=i}} Michael Ventris Memorial Award for Mycenaean Studies, given by the Institute of Classical Studies to promising young scholars in the field of Mycenaean or Minoan studies.{{sfn|McDonald|Rapp|1972|p=ix}} He was most known and prolific in the field of archaeological survey, and his many contributions to large-scale landscape surveys of Mycenaean sites. In the spring of 1957, while still a doctoral student, he had completed a survey of the Spercheios Valley in Phthiotis in central Greece, alongside his frequent collaborator John Lazenby.{{sfn|Hope Simpson|1965|p=i}}

Between 1956 and 1958, he made an extensive survey of Laconia, including the islands of Kythera and Antikythera, alongside Helen Waterhouse and at the encouragement of Alan Wace.{{sfn|Waterhouse|Hope Simpson|1960|p=67}} Like most of his future survey work, the expedition consisted largely of the collection and cataloguing of surface finds, with the view to identifying and mapping sites of Mycenaean habitation. The Laconia survey significantly increased the number of known Mycenaean sites in the region,{{sfn|Waterhouse|Hope Simpson|1960|p=67}} and remained widely cited into the 21st century.{{sfn|Gallou|2009|p=85}} In the spring of 1956–7, he spent seven weeks surveying in south-eastern Messenia, with the assistance of David French, and later published his work as "Identifying a Mycenaean State", in which he linked his discoveries with the seven cities promised to Achilles by Agamemnon in the Iliad.Iliad 9.141–296{{sfn|Hope Simpson|1957|p=231}} His belief in the essential correspondence between the place-names of the Homeric poems and the geography of the Mycenaean period led him to write,{{sfn|Whitley|2020|p=259}} with John Lazenby, The Catalogue of Ships in Homer's Iliad, which attempted to match the places named in the Iliad with those known from archaeological survey.{{sfn|Hope Simpson|Lazenby|1970}} Contemporary reviews, however, questioned the value of the Catalogue as an historical document, pointing to its essentially poetic nature as well as its composition over many centuries,{{sfn|Lang|1972|pp=602–603}} and most modern scholars consider the attempt to find archaeological evidence for the historicity of the Homeric poems to be fundamentally misguided.{{sfn|Whitley|2020|pp=259–260}}

Between 1960 and 1970, Hope Simpson and Lazenby worked together on a further survey of the Dodecanese.{{sfn|Hope Simpson|2014|p=xiii}}

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In 1958, he joined William McDonald in what would become the University of Minnesota Messenia Expedition, surveying Mycenaean sites in Messenia. The approach of this survey, which came to be known as the "Hope Simpson method" (though McDonald always claimed it as a joint decision, even to later critics),{{sfn|McDonald|1984|p=186}} typified his later work: broad, extensive survey based on surface finds; a focus on site function as well as distribution; and the recording of information relevant to as many periods of history as possible.{{sfn|McDonald|1984|p=186}} By 1962, the expedition was formally constituted with a team of five: in addition to McDonald and Hope Simpson, three of McDonald's colleagues from the University of Minnesota: Jesse Fant, Herbert E. Wright and Fred Lukerman.{{sfn|Greenberg|1962|p=18}} From 1966 to 1968, owing to McDonald's illness, Hope Simpson served as field director of the project.{{sfn|McDonald|Hope Simpson|1969|p=123}}

The methods of the UMME were innovative in several ways. Firstly, they made extensive use of aerial photography, provided by the Hellenic Air Force during the summers, to identify promising sites for investigation, enabling them to cover far more ground than previous surveys.{{sfn|Davis|2022|p=18}} Secondly, with the assistance of John Chadwick of the University of Cambridge, they attempted to match the sites identified in their survey to the toponyms known from the Linear B archive of the so-called "Palace of Nestor"' at Pylos, excavated by Carl Blegen in 1939 but only made legible with Chadwick and Michael Ventris's decipherment of the Linear B script, completed in 1952–1953 and published in 1956.{{sfn|Davis|2022|p=19}} While this approach was later criticised for its propensity to miss smaller sites, particularly those whose location did not conform to expected patterns of settlement,{{sfn|Davis|2022|p=18}} it revealed over 200 habitation sites across an area of 3,500 km²,{{sfn|Davis|2022|p=19}} and has been described as "a prodigious influence on the development of archaeology in Greece", opening the possibility for the first time of the study of Mycenaean geography.{{sfn|Davis|Alcock|Bennet|Lolos|1997|p=395}}

During the UMME season of August 1966, Hope Simpson travelled to the marble quarries at Kypranion in Laconia, recovering samples which he used in collaboration with Reynold Higgins and S. E. Ellis to demonstrate that these were the source for the red and green marble used on the façade of the Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae.{{sfn|Higgins|Ellis|Hope Simpson|1968|p=333}}

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Hope Simpson left London in 1960, and worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham until 1963,{{sfn|Hope Simpson|1965|p=ii}} when he emigrated to Canada. He taught for a year at the University of Toronto before moving in 1964 to Queen's University, Kingston to take up a professorship in Classics and Archaeology, a position he would hold until his retirement in 1993.{{sfn|Whyte|2017|p=68}}

Throughout the succeeding decades, Hope Simpson's main scholarly contribution was in the production of gazetteers of prehistoric sites throughout Greece. In 1965, he published A Gazetteer and Atlas of Mycenaean Sites, cataloguing over 600 sites throughout the Greek mainland and islands, as well as the coast of Asia Minor.{{sfn|Taylour|1966|pp=243–244}} In 1969, at the suggestion of Hector Catling, he began working with Oliver (O. T. P. K.) Dickinson, originally a Sir James Knott fellow at Newcastle University, from 1972 until 1975 a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, on what was published in 1979 as the first volume of A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilisation in the Bronze Age.{{sfn|Hope Simpson|Dickinson|1979|p=6}} He followed this in 1982 with Mycenaean Greece, a gazetteer in all but name,{{sfn|Rutter|1982|p=313}} incorporating material from central Macedonia and more sites in Asia Minor. This publication was praised for its thorough coverage and inclusion of maps and plans, including an early effort to address the question of roads and routeways in Mycenaean Greece, which later formed the basis of his 2006 book (with D. K. Hagel), Mycenaean Fortifications, Highways, Dams and Canals. However, the book was criticised for adding few sites to the corpus of his 1979 work,{{sfn|Rutter|1982|p=313}} and for failing to incorporate methodological advances in survey techniques since the early 1970s.{{sfn|Davis|1983|pp=108–109}} By 1983, such large-scale gazetteers, making use of extensive survey to catalogue sites in a diachronic manner, could be described as "the familiar Hope Simpson format".{{sfn|Davis|1983|p=108}}

From 1977 to 1979, along with Joseph Shaw, he conducted the survey of the Kommos region of southern Crete — a survey which, by the time of the project's eventual publication in 1995, was noted as embodying the "pioneering" methods of the UMME but as suffering from the lack of methods and techniques which had, in the intervening two decades, become standard in Greek field survey.{{sfn|Davis|1998|p=527}} In particular, the relatively unsystematic nature of the collection and interpretation of survey data was judged by Jack Davis as leading to "methodological imprecision [which] often detracts from the potential usefulness of the data".{{sfn|Davis|1998|p=527}} Indeed, by 1982, his methods, which had been described as "pioneering" for the 1950s and 1960s,{{sfn|Davis|1983|p=108}} were labelled as "cautious" and "traditional".{{sfn|Rutter|1982|p=313}}

From 1985 to 1991,{{sfn|Hope Simpson|2018|p=xix}} he directed the intensive survey of the island of Pseira, near Crete, uncovering 315 prehistoric sites ranging chronologically from the Neolithic to the Byzantine period.{{sfn|Betancourt|Davaras|Hope Simpson|2004}} From 1986 to 1988, he took part in the excavation of the fortified Mycenaean settlement of Kiapha Thiti in Attica, directed by the Canadian Institute in Greece{{sfn|Canadian Institute in Greece|2013}} — a rare example of a fortified non-palatial Mycenaean site, which provided evidence of construction techniques attested nowhere else in the Mycenaean world.{{sfn|Canadian Institute in Greece|2013}}

From 1990 to 1995, he served on the advisory board of the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, led by Jack Davis,{{sfn|Pylos Regional Archaeological Project|2010}} which aimed to supplement the work done by Hope Simpson and McDonald through the UMME survey with detailed, small-scale intensive study of Messenian sites and landscapes.{{sfn|Davis|2022|p=18}} He retired from Queen's University in 1993: in retirement, he published two further books, Mycenaean Fortification, Highways, Dams and Canals (2006, with Hagel) and Mycenaean Messenia and the Kingdom of Pylos (2014).

His final book, Mycenaean Greece and the Homeric Tradition, was published posthumously in open access in 2018.{{sfn|Hope Simpson|2018|p=5}}

In 1958, Hope Simpson married Jennifer Crick.{{sfn|James Reid Funeral Home|2016}} Throughout the 1950s, the couple had surveyed widely, both together and separately, in Greece, generating data which formed much of the foundation for Hope Simpson's 1965 gazetteer.{{sfn|Hope Simpson|1965|p=i}} They had two children: Allan Hope Simpson (1962–2012), a writer, poet and musician,{{Cite web|url=https://myglobaleventreports.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/allan-hope-simpson/|title=Allan Hope Simpson|date=31 July 2012}} and David (born 1965), an engineer.[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37359551800 D. H. Simpson]

Hope Simpson's younger brother, Robert, predeceased him.{{sfn|Whyte|2017|p=68}} His elder brother, James,{{sfn|Pease|2021|pp=71–72}} also read classics (at Queens' College, Cambridge) after attending Shrewsbury School.{{sfn|Hudson|2020|p=114}} He had a long career as a schoolmaster in Britain, at The King's School, Canterbury, Bedford School and in the comprehensive sector.{{sfn|Hudson|2020|p=114}}

• {{cite book| last=Hope Simpson| first=Richard| date=1965| title=A Gazetteer and Atlas of Mycenaean Sites| publisher=Oxford University Press| ref=none}}
• {{cite book| last=Hope Simpson| first=Richard| last2=Lazenby| first2=John| date=1970| title=The Catalogue of Ships in Homer's Iliad| publisher=Clarendon Press| place=Oxford| ref=none}}
• {{cite book| last=Hope Simpson| first=Richard| date=1979| last2=Dickinson| first2=O. T. P. K.| title=A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilisation in the Bronze Age| volume=1: The Mainland and Islands| publisher=Paul Åströms Förlag| place=Gothenburg| ref=none}}
• {{cite book| last=Hope Simpson| first=Richard| date=1982| title=Mycenaean Greece| publisher=Noyes Press| place=Park Ridge, New Jersey| ref=none| url=https://archive.org/details/mycenaeangreece0000simp| via=Internet Archive| url-access=registration}}
• {{cite book| last=Hope Simpson| first=Richard|last2=Hagel| first2=D. K.| date=2006| title=Mycenaean Fortifications, Highways, Dams and Canals| publisher=Paul Åströms Förlag| place=Sävedalen| ref=none}}
• {{cite book| last=Hope Simpson| first=Richard|author-mask=1| date=2014| title=Mycenaean Messenia and the Kingdom of Pylos| publisher=INSTAP Academic Press| place=Philadelphia| ref=none}}
• {{cite book| last=Hope Simpson| first=Richard|author-mask=1| date=2018| title=Mycenaean Greece and the Homeric Tradition| url=https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/bitstream/handle/1974/24425/Mycenaean-Greece-and-Homeric-Tradition-1533665193.mobi| publisher=Queen's University, Kingston| ref=none}}

• {{cite journal| ref=none| author-last=Hope Simpson| author-first=Richard|year=1957| title=Identifying a Mycenaean State| journal=The Annual of the British School at Athens| volume=52| pages=231–259| jstor=30104414}}
• {{cite journal| ref=none| author-last=Hope Simpson| author-first=Richard| author-mask=1| date=1958–1959| title=Nemesis: A Mycenaean Settlement near the Menidi Tholos Tomb| journal=The Annual of the British School at Athens| volume=53/54| pages=292–294| jstor=30104469}}
• {{cite journal| ref=none| author-last=Hope Simpson| author-first=Richard| last2=Lazenby| first2=John|year=1962| title=Notes from the Dodecanese| journal=The Annual of the British School at Athens| volume=57| pages=154–175| doi=10.1017/S0068245400013678 }}
• {{cite journal| ref=none| author-last=Hope Simpson| author-first=Richard| last2=Lazenby| first2=John|year=1970| title=Notes from the Dodecanese II| journal=The Annual of the British School at Athens| volume=65| pages=47–77| jstor=30103209}}
• {{cite journal| ref=none| author-last=Hope Simpson| author-first=Richard| last2=Lazenby| first2=John|year=1973| title=Notes from the Dodecanese III| journal=The Annual of the British School at Athens| volume=68| pages=127–179| jstor=30103273}}
• {{cite journal| ref=none| author-last=Hope Simpson| author-first=Richard|year=2006| title=Interdisciplinary Survey in Messenia, Southwest Peloponnese, Greece| journal=Geoarchaeology| volume=22| pages=111–120}}

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• {{cite web|author=Canadian Institute in Greece|year=2013|title=Kiapha Thiti Excavation Project|url=http://portal.cig-icg.gr/node/986|website=Portal to the Past: Digital Archive of Archaeological Projects and Research|publisher=Canadian Institute in Greece|access-date=3 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203133938/http://portal.cig-icg.gr/node/986|archive-date=3 December 2022}}
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• {{cite book|author-last=Davis|author-first=Jack|author-link=Jack L. Davis|title=A Greek State in Formation: The Origins of Civilisation in Mycenaean Pylos|year=2022|place=Oakland, California|publisher=University of California Press}}
• {{cite journal|author-last=Davis|author-first=Jack|author-link=Jack L. Davis|year=1998|title=Reviewed Work(s): Kommos: An Excavation on the South Coast of Crete. Volume I: The Kommos Region and Houses of the Minoan Town. Part I: The Kommos Region, Ecology, and Minoan Industries by Joseph W. Shaw and Maria C. Shaw|journal=Journal of Field Archaeology|volume=25|number=4|pages=525–529|doi=10.2307/530644 |jstor=530644}}
• {{cite journal|author-last=Davis|author-first=Jack|author-link=Jack L. Davis|title=Mycenaean Greece, by Richard Hope Simpson, Pp. x + 246, figs. 15, pls. 32. Noyes Press|journal=American Journal of Archaeology|volume=87|number=1|pages=108–109|jstor=504678|year=1983|doi=10.2307/504678 }}
• {{cite magazine| author = | editor-last = Hudson| editor-first=Richard|title = Salopian Club News| url = https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/documents/1520-TW-Magazine-2017-4iiiFWEB.pdf | magazine=The Salopian|location=Oxford|year=2020| access-date=2 December 2022}}
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• {{cite journal|last1=Higgins|first1=Reynold|author-link1=Reynold Higgins|last2=Ellis|first2=S.E.|last3=Hope Simpson|first3=Richard|author-link3=Richard Hope Simpson|year=1968|title=The Façade of the Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae|journal=The Annual of the British School at Athens|volume=63|pages=331–336|doi=10.1017/S0068245400014453 |jstor=30103198|s2cid=129972305 }}
• {{cite journal|author-last=Hood|author-first=Sinclair|author-link=Sinclair Hood|title=The Sites of Mycenaean Greece — Richard Hope Simpson: Mycenaean Greece. Pp. x 246; 15 maps (A–O and key map for mainland Greece), 15 text figures (maps and plans), 32 plates of photographs at end. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981. $45. |journal=The Classical Review|year=1983|volume=33|number=2|pages=284–285|doi=10.1017/S0009840X00111953|s2cid=246876922 }}
• {{cite book|author-last1=Hope Simpson|author-first1=Richard|author-last2=Dickinson|author-first2=O.T.P.K.|year=1979|title=A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilisation in the Bronze Age: Volume 1: The Mainland and Islands|place=Gothenburg|publisher=Paul Åströms Förlag|isbn=9789185058815}}
• {{cite book|author-last1=Hope Simpson|author-first1=Richard|year=2018|title=Mycenaean Greece and the Homeric Tradition|publisher=Queen's University, Kingston|url=https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/bitstream/handle/1974/24425/Mycenaean-Greece-and-Homeric-Tradition-1533665193.mobi|access-date=3 December 2022}}
• {{cite book |last1=Hope Simpson |first1=Richard |title=Mycenaean Messenia and the Kingdom of Pylos |date=2014 |publisher=INSTAP Academic Press |isbn=978-1-931534-75-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LHE0nwEACAAJ |language=en}}
• {{cite book|author-last1=Hope Simpson|author-first1=Richard|author-last2=Lazenby|author-first2=John|year=1970|title=The Catalogue of Ships in Homer's Iliad|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford}}
• {{cite book|author-last1=Hope Simpson|author-first1=Richard|year=1965|title=A Gazetteer and Atlas of Mycenaean Sites|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford}}
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• {{cite web |last=James Reid Funeral Home |date=11 November 2016 |title=Richard "Dick" Hope Simpson |url=https://jamesreidfuneralhome.com/tribute/details/288/Richard-Hope-Simpson/obituary.html |access-date=2 December 2022 |website=James Reid Funeral Home}}
• {{cite journal|last=Lang|first=Mabel|author-link=Mabel Lang|title=Reviewed Work(s): The Catalogue of the Ships in Homer's Iliad by R. Hope Simpson and J. F. Lazenby |year=1972|journal=The American Journal of Philology|volume=93|issue=4|pages=602–605|doi=10.2307/294353 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/294353.pdf|jstor=294353}}
• {{cite book|editor-last1=McDonald|editor-first1=William|editor-link1=William Andrew McDonald|editor-last2=Rapp|editor-first2=George|year=1972|title=The Minnesota Messenia Expedition: Reconstructing a Bronze Age Regional Environment|place=Minneapolis|publisher=University of Minnesota Press}}
• {{cite journal|author-last1=McDonald|author-first1=William|author-link1=William Andrew McDonald|author-last2=Hope Simpson|author-first2=Richard|year=1969|title=Further Explorations in Southwestern Peloponnese, 1964–1968|journal=American Journal of Archaeology|volume=73|issue=2|pages=123–177|doi=10.2307/502778 |jstor=502778 |s2cid=191396062 }}
• {{cite book|author-last = McDonald|author-first=William|author-link=William Andrew McDonald|year=1984|chapter=The Minnesota Messenia Survey: A Look Back| title=Studies Presented to Sterling Dow on his Eightieth Birthday|place=Durham, North Carolina|pages=185–192}}
• {{citation|last=Pease|first=Charles E.G.|title=Descendants of Richard Jowitt|url=http://www.pennyghael.org.uk/Jowitt.pdf|access-date=3 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024001733/http://www.pennyghael.org.uk/Jowitt.pdf|archive-date=24 October 2021|website=Pease Family Index |date=5 February 2021}}
• {{cite web|author=Pylos Regional Archaeological Project|year=2010|title=Project Participants|url=https://classics.uc.edu/prap/participants.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425145613/http://classics.uc.edu/prap/participants.html|access-date=3 December 2022|archive-date=25 April 2019}}
• {{cite journal|author-last=Rutter|author-first=Jeremy|year=1982|title=Richard Hope Simpson. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Press, 1982. Pp. x, 246; (plus) 86 ill. on 32 pls.; (incl.) numerous maps, plans, and ill. $45.00|volume=75|number=5|journal=The Classical World|page=313}}
• {{cite journal|last=Taylour|first=William|author-link=William Taylour|title=R. Hope Simpson. A Gazetteer and Atlas of Mycenaean Sites. University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, Bulletin Supplement No. 16, 1965. 200 pp., 5 maps (including 1 in pocket). 50s.|year=1966|journal=Antiquity|volume=40|issue=159|pages=243–244|doi=10.1017/S0003598X0003266X|s2cid=163716355 }}
• {{cite journal|last1=Waterhouse|first1=Helen|author-link1=Helen Waterhouse|last2=Hope Simpson|first2=Richard|year=1960|title=Prehistoric Laconia: Part I|volume=55|journal=The Annual of the British School at Athens|pages=67–107|doi=10.1017/S0068245400013290 |s2cid=210050738 }}
• {{cite book|author-last=Whitley|author-first=James|title=The Cambridge Guide to Homer|editor-last1=Pache|editor-first1=Corinne Ondine|editor-last2=Dué|editor-first2=Casey|editor-last3=Lupack|editor-first3=Susan|editor-last4=Lamberton|editor-first4=Robert|chapter=Homer and History|pages=257–266|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge |isbn=978-1-1070-2719-0 |year=2020}}
• {{cite magazine| author = | editor-last= Whyte| editor-first=William |title = In Memoriam| url = https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/documents/1520-TW-Magazine-2017-4iiiFWEB.pdf | magazine=TW: The Magazine of St John's College, Oxford|location=Oxford|year=2017| access-date=2 December 2022}}

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