The Sites of Ancient Greece

About Paul Cartledge

Paul Cartledge (b.1947) is Professor of Greek History the AG Leventis Professor of Greek Culture and a Fellow of Clare College Cambridge. He also holds a visiting Global Distinguished Professorship at New York University. Cartledge is a world expert on Athens and Sparta in the Classical Age and was chief historical consultant for the BBC TV series The Greeks and the Channel 4 series The Spartans. His most recent books include Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice (2009) and Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities (2009). He is also honorary citizen of (modern) Sparta. Georg Gerster (1928-2019) was a pioneer in aerial photography. For over forty years he took  breath-taking pictures of mountains coasts and spectacular archeological sites in 111 countries on all continents.