He was a famous Etruscan expert and a had a deep knowledge of the ancient Ischia, a long term collaborator of Georg Buchner, the discoverer of Pithekousai. David Ridgway was born in Athens on 11^th of May 1938. After his degree in Classical Literature at the University College of London in 1960, he attended a post-university specialisation course about the European and Mediterranean Archaeology in Oxford.