John Boardman on the Parthenon

About John Boardman

Sir John Boardman was born in 1927 and 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 he has 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 is now 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. He was awarded the Onassis Prize for Humanities in 2009. Professor Boardman has written widely on the art and archaeology of Ancient Greece.