Background
The son of Princeton classics professor Charles A. Robinson, he graduated from Princeton in 1922.
The son of Princeton classics professor Charles A. Robinson, he graduated from Princeton in 1922.
Princeton University.
He spent post-graduate years at the American Academy in Rome, where he met Celia Sachs, daughter of art historian Paul J. Sachs. Robinson later became a professor at Brown University. Some of his books are: Alexander the Great, Ancient History 1967 (used as a textbook in many colleges for some time), The Spring of Civilization, Athens in the Age of Pericles, and Hellenic History, which he wrote with G. West. Botsford.
lieutenant has been presented annually since its inception in 1966.