Distinguished academics

Many distinguished academics support the campaign to reunite the Parthenon Sculptures in the New Acropolis Museum in Athens. The names of some of these distinguished academics will be published on this website during the Spring as our campaign gathers momentum  

The following distinguished academics have all declared their support for reuniting the Parthenon Marbles in Athens.

Professor Anthony Snodgrass
Emeritus of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge University, fellow of Clare College, currently Chairman British Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles (BCRPM).

Dr Peter Derow
Lecturer and Fellow of Wadham College, University of Oxford. Research interests in archaic classical and Hellenistic Greek history and the Roman Republic. Responsible for much of the teaching in ancient history at Oxford

Professor Paul Cartledge
Professor of Greek History, Clare College, Cambridge University. Specialist in fifth century Athens. Recently decorated by the Greek government.
 

Professor A.A.M. Bryer
Birmingham Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek studies, University of Birmingham. Distinguished scholar

Professor Judith E. Herrin
Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, King's College, University of London. Published widely on Byzantine archaeology and related fields. Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies at the university.
 

Professor Oliver Taplin
Magdalen College, Oxford. Distinguished Odyssean scholar.
 

Professor Nigel Spivey
Professor of history, Department of Classics, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Has presented very successful TV documentaries on Channel Five.
 

Professor Myles F. Burnyeat
Professor of ancient philosophy at All Souls College, University of Oxford.

Association of Art Historians

 

Doros Lymbouris
President of the Hellenic Society of the University of Southampton

Dr Barrie Fleet
Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University
 

Dr Cyprian Broodbank
Senior Lecturer in Aegean Archaeology, University College, London. Specific focus on prehistory; Mediterranean cultural and environmental dynamics.

Dr Paul Halstead
Reader in Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Field projects included excavation and ethnoarchaeology in Greece. A member of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology.
Dr Paul Halstead, Dept of Archaeology & Prehistory, University of Sheffield

Dr Paul Millett

K. Michael Barbour, MA, B.Litt, D.Phil (Oxon)
Emeritus Professor Geography, University of Ulster One-time Classical Scholar, New College, Oxford University
Peter Derow, Fellow & Tutor in Ancient History, Wadham College, Oxford

Peter Trowles, Glasgow School of Art

Professor A. A. M. Bryer

Professor Graham Shipley

Professor Myles Burnyeat
All Souls College, Oxford University

Professor Nigel Spivey
Emmanuel College, Classics Department, Cambridge University

Professor Patricia Easterling
Distinguished scholar of classic literature, Newnham Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University.

Professor Robin Osborne
Professor of ancient history, Kings College, Cambridge University. Has lectured on "The Co-Evolution of Style and Iconography: the Case of Athletes in Classical Athens" at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and been a keynote speaker on the Universal Concept of Masculinities

Professor Simon Hornblower

Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University College, London. Work focuses on the literary, cultural and historic viewpoint. Has written about classical Greek history and historiography in the new Cambridge Ancient History, and a textbook on The Greek World 479-323 BC.

Professor Sir Michael Dummett
Eminent philosopher, Oxford.

Sir Peter Hall
Professor of Planning at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College London. Received the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society for distinction in research, and is an honorary member of the Royal Town Planning Institute.

William St Clair
A historian who wrote the book "Lord Elgin and the Marbles" exposing that the British Museum damaged the marbles whilst cleaning them.