Robin Osborne

Robin Osborne (born 1957) is an English historian of antiquity, who is particularly interested in Ancient Greece. He grew up in Little Bromley, attending Little Bromley County Primary School and then Colchester Royal Grammar School. He was an undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge, where he obtained also a PhD.

He is the author of standard monographs on archaic Greek history (Greece in the Making 1200–479 BC) and on Greek art (Archaic and Classical Greek Art). Osborne is currently Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge University and a faculty member of King's College, Cambridge. He was President of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (2002–2006) and is a member of the editorial board of several renowned journals like Journal of Hellenic Studies, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology and American Journal of Archaeology.

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Osborne, Robin; Alcock, Susan E. (1994). Placing the gods: sanctuaries and sacred space in ancient Greece. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-815060-1.
Osborne, Robin (1996). Greece in the making, 1200-479 BC. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-03583-X.
Osborne, Robin (1998). Archaic and classical Greek art. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-284202-1.
Osborne, Robin; Goldhill, Simon (1999). Performance culture and Athenian democracy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-64247-7.
Osborne, Robin; Rhodes, P. J. (2003). Greek historical inscriptions: 404-323 BC. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-815313-9.