John Boardman

Gebundenes Buch

The Greeks in Asia

Beschreibung

Recounting the influence of Greek communities and their culture through Central Asia, India and Western China, from the Bronze Age through to the rise of Islam, this book examines a wealth of art and artifacts as well as literary sources to reveal the remarkable influence of Greek culture.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 189mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1086g
• ISBN-13: 9780500252130
• ISBN-10: 0500252130
• Artikelnr.: 41612339