The Greeks Overseas by John Boardman
A study giving the archaeologist's view of Greek history. Describes how the Greeks set out to plant trading posts and colonies and to reap whatever harvest of materials offered. Boardman demonstrates the value of archaeology to the historical record. The fourth edition includes an additional chapter which summarises new finds.
'A masterly summary' - The Times Literary Supplement
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780500281093 |
| ISBN 10 | 0500281092 |
| Title | The Greeks Overseas |
| Author | John Boardman |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Year published | 1999-04-19 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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