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John Boardman was a British classical archaeologist and art historian born on the 20th of August 1927 in Ilford, Essex, and died on the 23rd of May 2024 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. He was Lincoln Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at Oxford from 1978 to 1994 and was knighted in 1989.
The Greeks Overseas, first published in 1964, is Boardman's most widely known work. It traces ancient Greek settlement across the Mediterranean from Italy and North Africa to southern France and southern Spain, and has been updated through four editions, the most recent in 1999.
Boardman held the Lincoln Professorship of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford, a position he took up in 1978 as the successor to John Beazley. He retired from the post in 1994 and continued as Emeritus Professor.
Boardman received the Kenyon Medal from the British Academy in 1995 and the Onassis Prize for Humanities in 2009. He was also knighted in 1989 and was a Fellow of the British Academy.
Boardman excavated at Smyrna, Crete, Emporio on Chios, and Tocra in Libya. The Tocra excavations were published in two volumes co-authored with J. Hayes, in 1966 and 1973.
Boardman concentrated on ancient Greek art and archaeology, with particular emphasis on Greek colonisation, jewellery, engraved gems, and vase-painting. His later work extended into the Hellenistic world, Persia, Central Asia, and China.