# Anthony Snodgrass

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'''Anthony McElrea Snodgrass''' FBA (born 7 July 1934) is an academic and [archaeologist](/source/archaeologist) noted for his work on [Archaic Greece](/source/Archaic_Greece).

==Biography==
Born to William McElrea and Kathleen (Owen) Snodgrass, he gained his M.A. and [D.Phil](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy) in 1963. He is [Emeritus Professor](/source/Emeritus_Professor) in Classical Archaeology at the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge) and a specialist in [Archaic Greece](/source/Archaic_Greece). He is a Fellow of [Clare College, Cambridge](/source/Clare_College%2C_Cambridge), and of the [McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research](/source/McDonald_Institute_for_Archaeological_Research). He chairs the [British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles](/source/British_Committee_for_the_Reunification_of_the_Parthenon_Marbles).

He taught at [Edinburgh University](/source/Edinburgh_University) from 1961 to 1976 making the move down to [Cambridge University](/source/Cambridge_University) in the same year. While there he was appointed the sixth [Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology](/source/Laurence_Professor_of_Classical_Archaeology) from 1976 to 2001. He was elected a Fellow of the [British Academy](/source/British_Academy) in 1979 and was vice-president from 1990 to 1992. He currently resides in Cambridge.

==Works==
*''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.
*''Defensive Body Armour from Barbarian Europe'' Atlantic Archaeology Press (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1976. 
*''Archaeology and the Rise of the Greek State'', Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1977. 
*''Archaic Greece: The Age of Experiment'', Dent (London), 1980, Columbia University Press, 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, 1998. 
*(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 (Ithaca, NY), 2006.

==References==
*''Contemporary Authors'' Online, Gale, 2006. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006.

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311150604/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/archive.asp?fellowsID=488 Biographical note] at the British Academy website
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090421183916/http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/faculty/staff-bios/research_staff/snodgrass/ Picture of Anthony Snodgrass]

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