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Boardman was born in Essex on 20 August 1927. [2] He was educated at Chigwell School (1938–1945); then Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read Classics beginning in 1945. After completing two years' national service in the Intelligence Corps he spent three years in Greece, from 1952 to 1955, as the Assistant Director of the British School ...
May 27, 2024 · Sir John Boardman, who has died aged 96, was Lincoln Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Britain’s most distinguished historian of ancient Greek art. He ...
May 28, 2024 · Sir John Boardman OBE FBA Hon RA, Emeritus Lincoln Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of the Magdalene College Cambridge for 40 years, was not just the pre-eminent scholar of Archaeology and Ancient Greece, he also proved to be a remarkable friend to the antiquities trade and collecting.
Mar 30, 2021 · 2020, Archaeopress. In his 2020 memoir, John Boardman, who has had a long career at Oxford as one of the 20 th century’s most prominent Greek archeologists, mentions that he once “rather grudgingly” bought an ancient cylinder seal at a party in Cyprus. (206) Later, he sold it at Christie’s in New York “for something like $60,000.”.
Professor Sir John Boardman (1927-2024) With great sorrow the Classical Art Research Centre has received news of the death of Professor Sir John Boardman at the age of 96. John was a classical archaeologist of colossal stature who mentored many generations of Oxford graduates. He was educated at Chigwell School in Essex and Magdalene College ...
May 25, 2024 · Boardman received his education at Chigwell School in Essex before pursuing Classics at Magdalene College, Cambridge, commencing in 1945. Following two years of national service in the Intelligence Corps, he embarked on a three-year tenure in Greece, serving as the assistant director of the British School at Athens from 1952 to 1955.
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Apr 11, 2021 · Bruni Ridgway, John Boardman, and Georgian dancers (Kolchis, 5th International Symposium on the Ancient History of the Black Sea Littoral, 1987) I admit, however, that I was unprepared for the extent of John Boardman’s bibliography (pp.214-54 of the book under review).
