John Boardman

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.

John Boardman

Books by John Boardman

Greek Art (World of Art)

The Greeks in Asia

The History of Greek Vases

The World of Ancient Art

The Archaeology of Nostalgia

Persia and the West

The Greeks Overseas

Early Greek Vase Painting

The Great God Pan (Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture)

Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Classical Period

Greek Sculpture

Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period

Athenian Black Figure Vases