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About the Author

Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow and Senior Tutor of King's College, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His research ranges broadly across Greek history, Greek archaeology and the history of Greek art. Along with numerous edited and co-edited show more volumes, he has written Demos; the Discovery of Classical Attika (Cambridge, 1985), Classical Landscape with Figures: the Ancient Greek City and its Countryside (1987), Greece in the Making, 1200-479 BC (1996, 2nd edn 2009), Archaic and Classical Greek Art (1998) and Greek History (2004). A collection of his papers has been published as Athens and Athenian Democracy (Cambridge, 2010). This book was written as a contribution to a project on 'Changing Beliefs of the Human Body' funded by the Leverhulme Trust. show less

Works by Robin Osborne

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Greece in the Making, 1200-479 BC (1996) 239 copies

Archaic and Classical Greek Art (1998) 215 copies, 1 review

The World of Athens: Introduction to Classical Athenian Culture [Second Edition] (2008) — Revision author — 103 copies

Classical Greece (2000) 77 copies, 1 review

Classical Archaeology (2007) — Editor — 70 copies

Classical Landscape With Figures: The Ancient Greek City and Its Countryside (1987) 50 copies

Placing the Gods: Sanctuaries and Sacred Space in Ancient Greece (Clarendon Paperbacks) (1994) — Editor — 31 copies

Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404-323 BC (2004) — Editor — 24 copies

Art's Agency and Art History (2007) — Editor — 21 copies

Greek History: The Basics (2014) 20 copies

The Transformation of Athens: Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece (2018) 18 copies

Athens and Athenian Democracy (2010) 15 copies

Poverty in the Roman World (2006) — Editor — 13 copies

Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion (Cambridge Classical Studies) (2016) — Editor — 13 copies

Greek Historical Inscriptions 478-404 BC (2017) 11 copies

The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World. Volume II: Athens and Attica (2023) 9 copies

The History Written on the Classical Greek Body (2011) 9 copies

Demos: The Discovery of Classical Attika (1985) 9 copies

Mediterranean urbanization, 800-600 BC (2005) — Editor — 8 copies

Greek History (Classical Foundations) (2004) 8 copies, 1 review

Ritual, Finance, Politics: Athenian Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis (1994) — Editor — 6 copies

Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece (2006) — Editor — 6 copies, 1 review

Art and Text in Ancient Greek Culture (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism) (1994) — Editor — 6 copies

The Old Oligarch 3rd Edition: Pseudo-Xenophon's Constitution of the Athenians (Lactor) (2017) 5 copies

Debating the Athenian Cultural Revolution: Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Politics 430-380 BC (2007) — Editor — 4 copies

Studies in Ancient Greek and Roman Society (2004) — Editor — 4 copies

Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy (1999) — Editor — 4 copies

Athenian Democracy (Lactor (London Assoc.of Classical Teachers-Original Records)) (2014) 2 copies

Αρχαία ελληνική ιστορία (2011) 1 copy

'One race of men' in TLS 5324, 15 April 2005 [review of Hornblower's 'Thucydides & Pindar: historical narrative & the world of epinikian poetry'] 1 copy

Grecja klasyczna : 500-323 p. n. e. (2011) 1 copy

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The Cambridge Companion to Homer (2004) — Contributor — 152 copies, 1 review

From the Beginning to Plato (1997) — Contributor — 80 copies, 1 review

The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World (2007) — Contributor — 73 copies

The Greek World (1997) — Contributor — 69 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) — Contributor — 48 copies

The Ancient Economy: Recent Approaches (2002) — Contributor — 45 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History (2013) — Contributor — 38 copies

Oxford Readings in Greek Religion (2000) — Contributor — 38 copies

A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought (2009) — Contributor — 34 copies

City and Country in the Ancient World (Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society) (1991) — Contributor — 32 copies

The Greek City: From Homer to Alexander (1990) — Contributor — 30 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (2009) — Contributor — 29 copies

Sexuality in Ancient Art: Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Italy (1996) — Contributor — 26 copies, 1 review

The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 1: Beginnings to AD 600 (2011) — Contributor — 25 copies

The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece (1997) — Contributor — 21 copies

Brill's companion to Herodotus (2002) — Contributor — 21 copies

Athenian Democracy (Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World) (2004) — Contributor — 17 copies

Kosmos: Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens (1998) — Contributor — 16 copies

Foundation Myths in Ancient Societies: Dialogues and Discourses (2014) — Contributor — 16 copies

Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds (2012) — Contributor — 16 copies

Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient Greece (2003) — Contributor — 16 copies

Classical Greece: Ancient Histories and Modern Archaeologies (1994) — Contributor — 15 copies

Boiotia in the Fourth Century B.C. (2017) — Contributor — 13 copies

The Teaching of Classics (2003) — Contributor — 12 copies

The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy: A Politico-cultural Transformation and Its Interpretations (2013) — Contributor — 12 copies

A Companion to Sophocles (2012) — Contributor — 11 copies

Word and Image in Ancient Greece (2000) — Contributor — 11 copies

The new ways of history developments in historiography (2010) — Contributor — 10 copies

The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome (2006) — Contributor — 10 copies

Not the Classical Ideal: Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art (2000) — Contributor — 10 copies

The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions (2005) — Contributor — 10 copies

Collapse and Transformation: The Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age in the Aegean (2020) — Contributor — 9 copies, 1 review

Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence (1998) — Contributor — 8 copies

The Athenian Empire (Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World) (2008) — Contributor — 8 copies

Side-by-side survey : comparative regional studies in the Mediterranean World (2004) — Contributor — 7 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes (Oxford Handbooks) (2019) — Contributor — 7 copies

Greek Ritual Poetics (2003) — Contributor — 7 copies

Nomos : essays in Athenian law, politics, and society (1991) — Contributor — 7 copies

Reading Herodotus: A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories (2007) — Contributor — 7 copies

Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition (Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society) (1998) — Contributor — 7 copies, 1 review

Greek Vases: Images, Contexts and Controversies: Proceedings of the Conference Sponsored by the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University, ... Studies in the… (2004) — Contributor — 6 copies

Greek Tragedy and the Historian (1997) — Contributor — 6 copies

Materialising Roman histories (2017) — Contributor — 6 copies

Benefactors and the Polis: The Public Gift in the Greek Cities from the Homeric World to Late Antiquity (2021) — Contributor — 6 copies

Landscape, ethnicity and identity in the archaic Mediterranean area (2012) — Contributor — 5 copies

Performance, Iconography, Reception: Studies in Honour of Oliver Taplin (2008) — Contributor — 5 copies

The frame in classical art : a cultural history (2017) — Contributor — 5 copies

Structure, image, ornament : architectural sculpture in the Greek world : proceedings of an international conference held at the American School of Classical Studies, 27-28… (2009) — Contributor — 4 copies

War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens (2010) — Contributor — 4 copies

How to Do Things with History: New Approaches to Ancient Greece (2018) — Contributor — 4 copies

Greek history and epigraphy : essays in honour of P.J. Rhodes (2009) — Contributor — 3 copies

Aristophanes and Politics: New Studies (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition) (2020) — Contributor — 3 copies

Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese (2022) — Contributor — 3 copies

Art and Inscriptions in the Ancient World (2006) — Contributor — 3 copies

Letters and Communities: Studies in the Socio-Political Dimensions of Ancient Epistolography (2018) — Contributor — 2 copies

The Pronomos Vase and its Context (2010) — Contributor — 2 copies

The Archaeology of Athens and Attica under the Democracy (1994) — Contributor — 2 copies

Debating Orientalization: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Processes of Change in the Ancient Mediterranean (Monographs i (2006) — Contributor — 2 copies

Greek Art in View: Essays in Honour of Brian Sparkes (2004) — Contributor — 2 copies

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 129, 1999 — Contributor — 1 copy

Debating open access (2013) — Contributor — 1 copy

Use and Abuse of Law in the Athenian Courts (Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and) (2018) — Contributor — 1 copy

Arethusa (vol 43 no 2): The Art of Art History in Greco-Roman Antiquity — Contributor — 1 copy

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Birthdate: 1957-03-11
Gender: male
Occupations: ancient historian
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Nationality: UK
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bookomaniac 3,651 reviews

Greek History by Robin Osborne

Eight short explanations of aspects of the history of ancient Greece. Robin Osborne (°1957, Cambridge University UK) mainly deals with political themes (such as the classical question of what a polis, the typical Greek city-state, is), but also goes broader, such as his first chapter on naked athletics and the question of the interaction between older men and young boys. There are no major new things to be found in this book, but it offers nice additions to a global introduction to Greek show more history. More in my History account on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7624276813. show less

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Jun 14, 2025

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Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Oxford History of Art) by Robin Osborne