Nigel Spivey
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox academic Nigel Jonathan Spivey (born 18 October 1958) is a British classicist and academic, specialising in classical art and archaeology. He is a senior lecturer in classics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Emmanuel College. He studied at Cambridge, the British School at Rome, and the University of Pisa.
As an undergraduate, he was a three-time champion in hammer throw at the OxfordTemplate:NdashCambridge athletics match; he remains a member of the Achilles Club, an Oxbridge sports organisation. During the 1990s, he conducted "Lunch with the FT" interviews for the Financial Times newspaper alongside his academic career.[1]Template:Efn
TV
He has presented various television series:
- For BBC: How Art Made the World, 2005
- For ITV: Digging for Jesus, 2005
- For Channel 5: Kings and Queens, and Heroes of World War II.
- For the BBC: “Cunk on Earth”, Season 1, episodes 1Template:Ndash2, 2022.
Published works include
- Understanding Greek Sculpture (1996)
- Etruscan Art (1997)
- Greek Art (1997)
- Enduring Creation: Art, Pain, and Fortitude (2001)
- Panorama of the Classical World (with Michael Squire) (2004)
- The Ancient Olympics: War Minus the Shooting (2004)
- Songs On Bronze: The Greek Myths Made Real (2005)
- Greek Sculpture (2013), an "entire renovation" of Understanding Greek Sculpture.[2]
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- British classical archaeologists
- Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
- Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
- Members of the University of Cambridge faculty of classics
- 1958 births
- Living people
- 20th-century British archaeologists
- 21st-century British archaeologists
- Runciman Award winners
- Pages with script errors