Anthony McElrea Snodgrass FBA (born 7 July 1934) is an
academic
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and
archaeologist
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noted for his work on
Archaic Greece
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.
Biography
Born to William McElrea and Kathleen (Owen) Snodgrass, he gained his M.A. and
D.Phil in 1963. He is
Emeritus Professor
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in Classical Archaeology at the
University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
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and a specialist in
Archaic Greece
Archaic Greece was the period in Greek history lasting from circa 800 BC to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, following the Greek Dark Ages and succeeded by the Classical period. In the archaic period, Greeks settled across the ...
. He is a Fellow of
Clare College
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and of the
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research is a research institute of the University of Cambridge in England.
History
The institute was established in 1990 through a benefaction from the late Dr Daniel McLean McDonald, a successful i ...
. He chairs the
British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles.
He taught at
Edinburgh University
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from 1961 to 1976 making the move down to
Cambridge University
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
in the same year. While there he was appointed the sixth
Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology from 1976 to 2001. He was elected a Fellow of the
British Academy
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It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...
in 1979 and was Vice-President from 1990 to 1992. He currently resides in Cambridge.
Works
*''Early Greek Armour and Weapons'', Aldine (Hawthorne, NY), 1964.
*''Arms and Armour of the Greeks'', Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1967, reprinted, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 1999.
*''The Dark Age of Greece: An Archaeological Survey'', Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1971, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 1972, Routledge (New York, NY), 2001.
*''Defensive Body Armour from Barbarian Europe'' Atlantic Archaeology Press (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1976.
*''Archaeology and the Rise of the Greek State'', Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1977.
*''Archaic Greece: The Age of Experiment'', Dent (London), 1980, Columbia University Press, 1981.
*(Contributor) ''Sources for Ancient History'', Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1983.
*''An Archaeology of Greece: The Present State and Future Scope of a Discipline'', University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1987.
*''Homer and the Artists: Text and Picture in Early Greek Art'', Cambridge University Press, 1998.
*(Editor with Gocha R. Tsetskhladze) ''Greek Settlements in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea'', Archaeopress (Oxford, England), 2002.
*''Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece'', Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 2006.
References
*''Contemporary Authors'' Online, Gale, 2006. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006.
External links
Biographical noteat the British Academy website
Picture of Anthony Snodgrass
Fellows of Clare College, Cambridge
Laurence Professors of Classical Archaeology
Fellows of the British Academy
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
People associated with the University of Edinburgh School of History, Classics and Archaeology
Living people
1934 births
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