Description
An accessible account of the remarkable influence of ancient Greek culture across Asia
About the Author
Sir John Boardman was born in 1927, and educated at Chigwell School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He spent several years in Greece, three of them as Assistant Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, and he has excavated in Smyrna, Crete, Chios and Libya. For four years he was an Assistant Keeper in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and he subsequently became Reader in Classical Archaeology and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He is now Lincoln Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Art in Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy, from whom he received the Kenyon Medal in 1995. He was awarded the Onassis Prize for Humanities in 2009. Professor Boardman has written widely on the art and archaeology of Ancient Greece.
Reviews
'Attractively illustrated' - Society of Antiquaries
'Undoubtedly an erudite book, the product of a lifetime's research and reflection' - Current World Archaeology
'A learned book, displaying an enormous and enviable range' - Journal of Greek Archaeology
Book Information
ISBN 9780500252130
Author John Boardman
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Weight(grams) 1090g