Nicolas Coldstream

John Nicolas Coldstream (* March 30, 1927, † 21 March 2008) was a British archaeologist Classic.

John Coldstream studied Classics at Eton College and at King's College, Cambridge. After the Second World War he worked among others in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the British Museum, before turning to an academic career. From 1960 to 1983 he was Professor of Aegean Archaeology at Bedford College, then at University College London Yates Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology. Since 1957, he was closely associated with the British School at Athens, where he remained until 1960 when Macmillan student.

His most significant excavations led by Coldstream in Kythera and at Knossos and provided detailed reports on the Minoan pottery found there. Of outstanding significance However, he gained through his intensive research on the Geometric pottery that he examined in its full dissemination of Asia Minor to Sicily. The summary results of these tests, Greek Geometric Pottery: A Survey of Ten Local Styles and Their Chronology, he published in 1968 Coldstream itself could still make 2008 a revision of the base station. . Not limited solely to the ceramic, but further great circle, he worked on the Geometric period in his classic work, Geometric Greece, which was released in 1977 and was reissued in a revised also by himself Version 2003.

Coldstream was a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London, the British Academy and of many foreign institutions, among others, founded in 1837 Archaeological Society in Athens and the German Archaeological Institute. In 2003 he received from the British Academy, the Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies.

Since 1970 Coldstream was married to the art historian Nicola Coldstream. Privately, he was regarded as an outstanding pianist.

Publications (selection )

  • Greek Geometric Pottery: A Survey of Ten Local Styles and Their Chronology. Methuen, London 1968. 2nd revised edition. Bristol Phoenix Press, 2008, ISBN 1904675816th
  • Kythera: Excavations and Studies Conducted by the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the British School at Athens. Noyes Press, Park Ridge, NJ 1973 ISBN 0,815,550,170th
  • Geometric Greece. In 1977. 2nd revised edition. Routledge, London 2003, ISBN 0415298989th
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