Snodgrass, Anthony 1934- (A.M. Snodgrass, Anthony McElrea Snodgrass)

PERSONAL:

Born July 7, 1934; son of William McElrea (an army officer) and Kathleen Snodgrass; married Ann E. Vaughan, November 7, 1959 (divorced, 1978); married Annemarie Kunzl, September 4, 1983; children: (first marriage) Nell Catherine, Rachel Ann, Elspeth Mary; (second marriage) Thomas Anthony. Education: Worcester College, Oxford, B.A., 1959, M.A. and D. Phil., 1963. Politics: Labour Party.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Clare College, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB2 1TL, England. Office—Museum of Classical Archaeology, Sidgwick Ave., Cambridge CB3 9DA, England.

CAREER:

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, lecturer, 1961-69, reader, 1969-75, professor of classical archaeology, 1975-76; Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology, 1976—. Member, Midlothian Valuation Appeal Committee, 1966-71. Military service: Royal Air Force, 1953-55; served in Iraq; became flying officer.

MEMBER:

Fellow, British Academy (vice president, 1990-92), Hellenic Society (member of council, 1964-67, 1973-76, and 1981-84), Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (member of editorial board, 1982-87), Roman Society.

WRITINGS:

Early Greek Armour and Weapons, Aldine (Hawthorne, NY), 1964.

Arms and Armour of the Greeks, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1967, reprinted, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 1999.

The Dark Age of Greece: An Archaeological Survey, Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1971, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 1972, Routledge (New York, NY), 2001.

Archaeology and the Rise of the Greek State, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1977.

Archaic Greece: The Age of Experiment, Dent (London, England), 1980, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 1981.

(Contributor) Sources for Ancient History, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1983.

An Archaeology of Greece: The Present State and Future Scope of a Discipline, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1987.

Homer and the Artists: Text and Picture in Early Greek Art, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1998.

(Editor, with others) Periplous: Papers on Classical Art and Archaeology Presented to Sir John Boardman, Thames & Hudson (New York, NY), 2000.

(Editor, with Gocha R. Tsetskhladze) Greek Settlements in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea, Archaeopress (Oxford, England), 2002.

Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece, Cornell University Press (New York, NY), 2006.

Contributor to classical journals.

SIDELIGHTS:

Anthony Snodgrass was educated at Worcester College of the University of Oxford, and went on to become an educator and a scholar in Ancient Greek history and archaeology. He has taught at both the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the University of Cambridge in England. Snodgrass has written numerous books on Ancient Greece and its antiquities, including Early Greek Armour and Weapons, The Dark Age of Greece: An Archaeological Survey, Archaeology and the Rise of the Greek State, Archaic Greece: The Age of Experiment, An Archaeology of Greece: The Present State and Future Scope of a Discipline, and Homer and the Artists: Text and Picture in Early Greek Art. Homer and the Artists collects a series of papers that address rituals and rites that were performed at various holy sites around ancient Greece. Homer and the Artists traces Homeric currency in art across the realm, and varying in period, indicating how few the number of direct references to Homer in Greek culture. N. James, in a review for Antiquity, calls the finding an "interesting twist in the Balkan bardic tradition."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Historical Review, December, 1989, Tjeerd H. Van Andel, review of An Archaeology of Greece: The Present State and Future Scope of a Discipline, p. 1349.

American Journal of Archaeology, January, 1989, Curtis Runnels, review of An Archaeology of Greece, p. 145.

Antiquity, December, 1988, John Boardman, review of An Archaeology of Greece, p. 795; December, 1999, N. James, review of Homer and the Artists: Text and Picture in Early Greek Art, p. 929.

Art History, September, 1999, Chris Emlyn-Jones, review of Homer and the Artists, p. 455.

History Today, July, 1983, review of Archaic Greece: The Age of Experiment, p. 46.

Times Literary Supplement, January 13, 1989, Gerald Cadogan, review of An Archaeology of Greece, p. 45; May 28, 1999, Andrew Stewart, review of Homer and the Artists, p. 5.