Anthony McElrea Snodgrass FBA (born 7 July 1934) is an

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and

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noted for his work on

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Biography

Born to William McElrea and Kathleen (Owen) Snodgrass, he gained his M.A. and

D.Phil A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...

in 1963. He is

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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 = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

and a specialist in

. He is a Fellow of

Clare College Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college was founded in 1326 as University Hall, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. It was refound ...

and of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. He chairs the

British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles The British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles (BCRPM) is a group of British people who support the return of the Parthenon (Elgin) marbles to Athens, Greece. Further reading * Tom Flynn, The Universal Museum (Lulu, 2012) ...

. He taught at

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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 The Laurence Professorship of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge was established in 1930 as one of the offices endowed by the bequest of Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence.British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. 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 s ...

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 note
at the British Academy website
Picture of Anthony Snodgrass
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