Robert Manuel Cook

Robert Manuel Cook (born on 4. July 1909 in Sheffield ( Yorkshire ), died on 10. August 2000 in Cambridge ) was a British Classic archaeologist . His specialty was Eastern Greek ceramics.

Robert Manuel Cook was the older son of Charles Robert Cook and Mary Manuel Cook. His brother was John Manuel Cook , also a classical archaeologist and vase researcher. Cook studied first at Marlborough College , then at Clare College , Cambridge. In 1934 he became Assistant Lecturer for Classics at the University of Manchester . Inspired by the then current studies of Corinthian and laconic vase painting , which were presented by Humfry Payne and Arthur Lane , Cook initially dealt with the so-called ficellural vases . In 1935 he turned to the painted clazomenic sarcophagi , but he did not publish the results of this research until 1981. In 1938 he became a lecturer in Manchester and married Kathleen Porter. During World War II , he served in the Civil Services.

In 1945 he became Laurence Reader in Classical Archeology at Cambridge University . For the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum he edited Fascicle 8 for Great Britain, which was dedicated to part of the holdings of the British Museum in London . In 1960 the manual Greek Painted Pottery , which was considered to be an English-language standard work for many years , was published, with which Cook wanted to close what he felt was a gap in the training of classical archeologists. When Jocelyn Toynbee retired, Cook followed her in 1962 to the Laurence Chair of Classical Archeology at Cambridge. He held the chair until his retirement in 1978. From 1983 to 1987 he was on the administrative committee of the British School at Athens . His last work, East Greek Pottery , which he edited with Pierre Dupont , was published in 1998.

Cook was a member of the British Academy and the German Archaeological Institute .

Publications (selection)

• Ionia and Greece in the Eighth and Seventh Centuries B. C . 1948.
• Amasis mepoiesen , in: Journal of Hellenic Studies 68, 1948
• The importance of painted ceramics for Greek trade , in: Yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute 74, 1959
• Greek Painted Pottery . 1960. 2nd edition. Methuen, London 1972, ISBN 0-416-76170-4 .
• The Greeks until Alexander . Praeger, New York 1962.
• Niobe and her children . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1964.
• with Kathleen Cook: Southern Greece: an archaeological guide. Attica, Delphi and the Peloponnese . Faber, London 1968, ISBN 0-571-08431-1 .
• Greek Art: Its Development, Character and Influence . Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York 1973, ISBN 0-374-16670-6 .
• with RJ Charleston: Greek and Roman Pottery . Harper & Row, New York 1979, ISBN 0-870-11343-7 .
• Clazomenian sarcophagi . Von Zabern, Mainz 1981, ( Research on ancient ceramics . Series 2. Kerameus . Volume 3) ISBN 3-805-30388-2 .
• with Pierre Dupont: East Greek pottery . Routledge, London and New York 1998, ISBN 0-415-16601-2 .

literature

• John Boardman : Robert Manuel Cook, 1909-2000 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy 115, 2002, pp. 195-206.

Web links

• Biography in the Dictionary of Art Historians .
• Obituary in The Independent , October 31, 2000 .
• Obituary in The Daily Telegraph , August 21, 2000 .
• Literature by and about Robert Manuel Cook in the catalog of the German National Library