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Ernest Arthur Gardner
1862–1939
An English archaeologist and classical scholar, he helped shape early British work in Greece and Egypt and wrote widely for readers curious about the ancient world.
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Religion and Art in Ancient Greece
by Ernest Arthur Gardner
About the author
Born in London in 1862, Ernest Arthur Gardner studied at the City of London School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He went on to become one of the best-known British archaeologists of his generation, with a career closely tied to the study of ancient Greece.
From 1887 to 1895 he served as director of the British School at Athens, a key post in the growth of British archaeology in Greece. He also took part in excavations in Egypt, including work connected with Flinders Petrie at Naukratis, and later became Yates Professor of Archaeology at University College London, where he taught and wrote for many years.
Gardner published books on Greek art, sculpture, and ancient Athens that helped bring classical archaeology to a wider public. He died in 1939, remembered as a careful scholar and an influential teacher in the early development of classical archaeology in Britain.