Background
Anthony McElrea Snodgrass was born on July 7, 1934, in London, to William McElrea Snodgrass, an army officer, and Kathleen (Owen) Snodgrass.
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In 1959, Anthony Snodgrass received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts from Worcester College in Oxford, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1963.
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In Arms and Armor of the Greeks, Anthony M. Snodgrass uses available literary, archaeological, and artistic evidence to piece together a picture of ancient Greek armory from the Mycenaean period through the campaigns of Alexander the Great. The ancient Greeks were neither populous nor rich in natural resources, Snodgrass explains, so it is remarkable that they succeeded in battle as often as they did.
https://www.amazon.com/Armor-Greeks-Professor-Anthony-Snodgrass/dp/0801860733/?tag=2022091-20
1967
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Until quite recently, it has been the accepted view that the Archaic period of Greek history was by definition merely a prelude to the Oassical period, an era regarded as unsurpassed in its literary, intellectual, artistic, and political achievements. Lately, however, ancient historians and Classical archaeologists have undertaken a major reappraisal of their subject, one result of which has been a broadening view of the Archaic period and its importance to the history of Greece. In this first major book on Archaic Greece to be written by an archaeologist, Professor Snodgrass shows how the supremacy of Classical Greece would have been impossible without the preceding centuries of the Archaic period.
https://www.amazon.com/Archaic-Greece-Experiment-Anthony-Snodgrass/dp/0520043731/?tag=2022091-20
1981
(This is a study of the works of art from early Greece tha...)
This is a study of the works of art from early Greece that have long been presented as "illustrations to Homer," but that are argued here to be nothing of the kind. Early Greek artists showed no preference for Homeric subjects and, when their interests did coincide with Homer's, treated his account as, at best, one of the possible variants. Close descriptive analysis of texts and pictures and of the artists' aims, together with statistical evidence, provide the basis for the argument.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521620228/?tag=2022091-20
1998
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Anthony McElrea Snodgrass was born on July 7, 1934, in London, to William McElrea Snodgrass, an army officer, and Kathleen (Owen) Snodgrass.
In 1959, Anthony Snodgrass received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts from Worcester College in Oxford, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1963.
First, Anthony did National Service with the RAF in Iraq 1953-55. He then was appointed Lecturer in Classical Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh in 1961, later promoted Reader (1968) and Professor (1975). Elected Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge 1976; Fellow of Clare College; retired 2001; Senior Fellow, McDnald Institute for Archaeological research. Took part in excavations at Knossos (Crete) and Motya (Sicily) in the 1960s and the Menelaion (Laconia, Greece) in the 1970s before initiating, in 1979, together with J.L. Bintliff (then Lecturer at the University of Bradford, later Professor at the University of Leiden NL) an intensive surface survey project in Boeotia (Central Greece) which they have jointly directed since then. His research has remained centered on the pre-Classical centuries of ancient Greece, between around 1100 and 500 BC. He was elected to the British Academy in 1979 and later served as Vice-President (1990-92).
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1981(This is a study of the works of art from early Greece tha...)
1998(In Arms and Armor of the Greeks, Anthony M. Snodgrass use...)
1967Anthony Snodgrass was a member of the British Academy, Hellenic Society, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and Roman Society.
As a mountaineer, Anthony has climbed many Alpine peaks, as well as all the 280 Scottish Munros.
On November 7, 1959, Snodgrass married Ann E. Vaughan, but they divorced in 1978, and on September 4, 1983, he married Annemarie Kunzl. Anthony has four children: Nell, Rachel, and Elspeth from his first marriage, and Thomas from the second.