John Boardman on the Parthenon (Pocket Perspectives)

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Britain’s most distinguished historian of ancient Greek art recounts what the Parthenon and its sculptures meant to the citizens of 5th-century BCE Athens

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Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contemporary texts, reissues and abridgements, these are bite-sized, fully illustrated reads in an attractive, affordable and highly collectable package.
Extent: 88 pp
Format: Hardback
Illustrations: 15
Publication date: 2024-05-02
Size: 18.0 x 11.6 cm
ISBN: 9780500027264
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About the Author

Sir John Boardman (1927-2024) was educated at Chigwell School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He spent several years in Greece, three of them as Assistant Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, and excavated in Smyrna, Crete, Chios and Libya. For four years he was an Assistant Keeper in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and he subsequently became Reader in Classical Archaeology and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He was Lincoln Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Art in Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy, from whom he received the Kenyon Medal in 1995. Professor Boardman was awarded the Onassis Prize for Humanities in 2009, and wrote widely on the art and archaeology of Ancient Greece.

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