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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

Teaching Associate in Classical Art and Archaeology

27 February 2026

The Faculty of Classics is seeking to appoint a temporary Teaching Associate in Classical Art and Archaeology from 1 October 2026 for twelve months. The post is open to those at any stage of their career, with a primary research and teaching interest in any area of Classical Archaeology. The Faculty is particularly...

Kennedy Professorship of Latin

19 January 2026

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Professor Christopher Whitton has accepted election to the Kennedy Professorship of Latin from 1 October 2026.

Professor Nicholas Zair awarded Leverhulme Research Fellowship

8 January 2026

The Faculty is pleased to announce that Professor Nicholas Zair has been awarded a 3 year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship from 2026-2029 for his project Understanding Oscan. The Fellowship will allow Nick to spend the next three years working on Oscan, which was spoken widely across Southern Italy between the fifth...

Dr Ben Gray, Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient History)

20 October 2025

The Faculty is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Ben Gray ( Birkbeck, University of London) as Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient History) from 1st January 2026.