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Faculty of Classics

 

Research

Early Greece; funerary archaeology; the Boeotia Survey

Publications

Key publications: 

Early Greek armour and weapons (Edinburgh UP, 1964)    
Arms and armour of the Greeks (Thames & Hudson, 1967)
The dark age of Greece (Edinburgh UP, 1971)
Archaic Greece:  the age of experiment (J.M.Dent, 1980)
An archaeology of Greece (Univ. of California Press, 1987)
Homer and the artists (Cambridge UP, 1998)
Archaeology and the emergence of Greece (Collected papers 1965-2002, Edinburgh UP, 2006)
[with J.L.Bintliff and P.Howard]  Testing the hinterland:  the work of the Boeotia Survey 1989-1991 (McDonald Institute Monographs, 2007)

Emeritus Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology
Professor Anthony  Snodgrass

Contact Details

Clare College
Cambridge
CB2 1TL
01223 339345
Not available for consultancy

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Latest news

Classical Equalities Lecture 25 April 2024 at 17.00 in G19

4 March 2024

Jane Draycott will be giving this year’s Classical Equalities lecture, on ‘ Prostheses in Classical Antiquity: Everything You Never Knew You Wanted To Know’. Jane Draycott is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Glasgow. Her research investigates science, technology, and medicine in the ancient world. She has...

Soundmarks Project

12 February 2024

Soundmarks, an art/archaeology collaboration between Rose Ferraby, Cambridge Archaeologist, and Rob St John using sound and visual art launches at DIG in York. In 2019 the pair created work exploring and animating the sub-surface landscape of Aldborough Roman Town in North Yorkshire, UK. Soundmarks Aldborough was re-shown...

Vacancy: Assistant Professor in Latin literature

8 February 2024

The Faculty of Classics is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Classics (Latin literature) from 01 September 2024. The role is open to those, at any stage in their career, with a primary research interest in Latin literature. The successful candidates will have, or be expected to develop, a record of world-class...

Publication: The New Documents in Mycenaean Greek

24 January 2024

The Faculty of Classics is proud to announce the publication of The New Documents in Mycenaean Greek , edited by John Killen FBA, the Emeritus Professor of Mycenaean Greek. More than a dozen leading Mycenologists have contributed chapters and sections to this seminal work in two volumes, comprised of more than 1100 pages...