pOver his long and illustrious career as Lecturer, Reader and Professor in Edinburgh University 1961-1976, Lawrence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge 1976-2001 and currently Fellow of the McDonald Institute of Archaeology at Cambridge, Anthony Snodgrass has influenced and been associated with a long series of eminent classical archaeologists, historians and linguists.p pp pIn acknowledgement of his immense academic achievement, this collection of essays by a range of international scholars reflects his wide-ranging research interests Greek prehistory, the Greek Iron Age and Archaic era, Greek texts and Archaeology, Classical Art History, societies on the fringes of the Greek and Roman world, and Regional Field Survey. Not only do they celebrate his achievements but they also represent new avenues of research which will have a broad appeal.p