John Boardman

This article is about the archaeologist. For the bishop, see John Joseph Boardman .

Sir John Boardman (born August 20, 1927 in Ilford ) is a British classical archaeologist .

Life

John Boardman was a student at Chigwell School and a student at Magdalene College , Cambridge . He spent several years in Greece , including from 1952 to 1955 as the second director of the British School at Athens . He carried out archaeological excavations in Smyrna , Crete , Emborios in Chios and Libya . In 1955 he was assistant custodian (Assistant Keeper) at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for four years , then Lecturer in Classical Archaeologist and Fellow at Merton College , Oxford. Boardman taught from 1978 to 1994 as Professor of Classical Archeology ( Lincoln Professor of Classical Archeology and Art ) at Oxford University . He has been retired since 1995 .

His archaeological research is mainly focused on Greek art , particularly glyptics , sculpture, and vase painting .

Boardman is a member of the British Academy , an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy , an associate member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1991) and a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1970) and the Academy of Athens (1997). In 1999 he was accepted into the American Philosophical Society . Boardman is also a member of the editorial committee of the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae and the Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum . In 1989 he was raised to the non-hereditary nobility ( Knight Bachelor , Sir ).

Publications (selection)

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  • John Boardman. A bibliography . In: Greek offerings. Essays on Greek art in honor of John Boardman (Oxford 1997) 231–241.
  • Publications by John Boardman, 1952-1999 . In: Periplous. Papers on classical art and archeology presented to Sir John Boardman (London 2000) 403-410.

• Greek Gems and Finger Rings. Early Bronze Age to Late Classical . Thames & Hudson, London 1970, ISBN 0-500-16015-5
• The Greeks Overseas. The Archeology of Their Early Colonies and Trade . Penguin, Harmondsworth 1964. German translation: Colonies and trade of the Greeks: from the late 9th to the 6th century BC. Chr . Beck, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-406-08039-1
• Greek Sculpture. The Archaic Period: A Handbook . Thames & Hudson, London 1978. German translation: Greek sculpture, the archaic time: a manual . Zabern, Mainz 1981, ISBN 3-8053-0346-7
• Greek Sculpture. The Classical Period: A Handbook Thames & Hudson, London 1985. German translation: Greek sculpture, the classical period: a manual . Zabern, Mainz 1987, ISBN 3-8053-0818-3
• The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity . Thames & Hudson, London 1994, ISBN 0-500-23696-8
• Early Greek Vase Painting Thames & Hudson, London 1998, ISBN 0-500-20309-1
• Persia and the West. An Archaeological Investigation of the Genesis of Achaemenid Art . Thames & Hudson, London 2000. German translation: The Persians and the West. An archaeological study on the development of Achaemenid art . Zabern, Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-8053-2919-9

Appreciations

• Georgios S. Korres: Sir John Boardman . In: Επίσημοι λόγοι. Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστημίο Αθηνών 30 (1988-91) [1998] 1059-1063.
• Olga Palagia-Ladopoulou: Sir John Boardman . In: Επίσημοι λόγοι. Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών 30 (1988-91) [1998] 1067-1072.
• Donna C. Kurtz : John Boardman's curatorship of the Cast Gallery, Ashmolean Museum, 1978–1994 . In: Periplous. Papers on classical art and archeology presented to Sir John Boardman (London 2000) 178-189.

Web links

• Literature by and about John Boardman in the catalog of the German National Library
• John Boardman in the Dictionary of Art Historians

Individual evidence

1. ^ Member History: John Boardman. American Philosophical Society, accessed May 8, 2018 .