John Kinloch Anderson

John Kinloch Anderson
BornJanuary 3, 1924
Multan, Punjab, British India
DiedOctober 13, 2015
TitleProfessor of Classics
SpouseEsperanza
Children3
Academic work
DisciplineClassics, Ancient History
InstitutionsUC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, U.S.

John Kinloch "Jock" Anderson (January 3, 1924 – October 13, 2015) was a Scottish academic who was Professor of Classics and Ancient History, and Mediterranean Archaeology Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

Biography

Anderson was born in Multan, Punjab, British India, on January 3, 1924. He obtained his secondary education at Trinity College Glenalmond in Scotland from 1937 to 1942. He served in the Royal Highland Regiment during World War II, serving in campaigns in Europe and Asia. After the war, he studied Classics at Christ Church, Oxford, where he received his bachelor’s degree in 1949. From 1949–50, he attended the British School at Athens. He was a MacMillan Fellow at Yale University in the US from 1950 to 1952. Anderson worked at various excavation sites in Greece and Turkey, such as Corinth, Chios, and Smyrna (Izmir).[1]

Beginning in 1953, he taught at University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. While in New Zealand, he met his wife Esperance, with whom he had three children. In 1958, they moved to Berkeley, California where he taught at UC Berkeley in the US until his retirement in 1993. He was curator of the Lowie Museum (Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology). He died in 2015.[2]

Bibliography

Anderson was an experienced rider, which inspired him to write the seminal work Ancient Greek Horsemanship (1961). It covered horsemanship in the Mediterranean from the Bronze Age until the Muslim conquests of the early Middle Ages.[3] As part of his research, Anderson personally attempted some of the riding procedures described in the book.[4] At the time of its publication, the book was praised in a number of academic reviews,[5][6] including The Classical Review and Classical Philology.[7][8]

In 1970, he published Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon (1970), about the life of Xenophon and Greek warfare during his lifetime.[9] The book dealt with the technical aspects of Classical Greek warfare, including the training, organization and tactics employed by Greek armies, particularly the Spartan army.[10] It covered the development of peltasts in especially deep detail. Anderson used a combination of archaeological and literary sources, such as the Cyropaedia, as the basis for his conclusions.[11] The book has been well received for its comprehensive and approachable handling of Greek warfare, which was at the time an understudied field.[12][13][14][15] The Classical Journal called it "an important and useful contribution to the understanding of Greek military tactics."[16] Its first print was noted to contain a number of typographical errors.[17]

Afterwards, he penned the more general Xenophon (1974), and edited the volume Funerary Symbolism in Apulian Vase-Painting in 1976.[18] He wrote Hunting in the Ancient World (1985) which is one of the most comprehensive works on the topic of hunting practices in ancient Greek and Roman culture.[19] The book incorporates evidence from Greco-Roman literature, and also takes into account the hunting traditions of nearby cultures such as the Persians and Assyrians.[20][21]

References

  1. ^ "John Kinlock Anderson". senate.universityofcalifornia.edu.
  2. ^ "'Jock' Anderson: Mentor to generations of students". Berkeleyside. 2015-10-30.
  3. ^ Markman, S. D. (1963). "Review of ANCIENT GREEK HORSEMANSHIP". Archaeology. 16 (1): 65–66. ISSN 0003-8113. JSTOR 41667304.
  4. ^ Milhauser, Charles John (1962). "Review of Ancient Greek Horsemanship". The Classical World. 55 (7): 199. doi:10.2307/4344841. ISSN 0009-8418. JSTOR 4344841.
  5. ^ Chamoux, F. (1964). "Review of Ancient Greek Horsemanship". Revue des Études Grecques. 77 (366/368): 575–576. ISSN 0035-2039. JSTOR 44276092.
  6. ^ Jacks, L. V. (1962). "Review of Ancient Greek Horsemanship". The Classical Journal. 58 (1): 36. ISSN 0009-8353. JSTOR 3294589.
  7. ^ Moritz, L. A. (1964-07-01). "Ancient Greek Horsemanship. J. K. Anderson". Classical Philology. 59 (3): 217–218. doi:10.1086/364914. ISSN 0009-837X.
  8. ^ Farrington, B. (December 1962). "J. K. Anderson: Ancient Greek Horsemanship". The Classical Review. 12 (3): 317–318. doi:10.1017/S0009840X00214911. ISSN 1464-3561. S2CID 161124430.
  9. ^ Berlin, Robert Harry (1988). Military Classics. U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Combat Studies Institute. ISBN 978-1-4289-1561-9.
  10. ^ Starr, Chester G. (1971). "Review of Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon". Classical Philology. 66 (1): 74. doi:10.1086/365715. ISSN 0009-837X. JSTOR 269275.
  11. ^ McLeod, W. (1970). "Review of Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon". The American Historical Review. 75 (7): 2023–2024. doi:10.2307/1848040. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 1848040.
  12. ^ Eliot, C. W. J. (1970). "Review of Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon". The Classical World. 64 (4): 124. doi:10.2307/4347351. ISSN 0009-8418. JSTOR 4347351.
  13. ^ Westlake, H. D. (1972). "Review of Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon". Gnomon. 44 (4): 362–366. ISSN 0017-1417. JSTOR 27685484.
  14. ^ B., Y. (1971). "Review of Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon". Revue Archéologique (1): 133–134. ISSN 0035-0737. JSTOR 41744074.
  15. ^ L., L. B. (1970). "Review of Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon". The Classical Outlook. 48 (3): 35. ISSN 0009-8361. JSTOR 43931219.
  16. ^ Buck, Robert J. (1972). "Review of Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon". The Classical Journal. 68 (2): 187–188. ISSN 0009-8353. JSTOR 3295842.
  17. ^ PARKE, H. W. (1972). "Review of Military theory and practice in the age of Xenophon". Hermathena (113): 69. ISSN 0018-0750. JSTOR 23040260.
  18. ^ Arias, Paolo Enrico (1977). "Review of Funerary Symbolism in Apulian Vase-Painting, Classical Studies, 12". Archeologia Classica. 29 (2): 482–483. ISSN 0391-8165. JSTOR 44365476.
  19. ^ Lynn, Jessica (2015-11-04). "Professor emeritus of classical archaeology John Anderson dies at 91". The Daily Californian.
  20. ^ Kyle, Donald G. (1986). "Review of Hunting in the Ancient World". Journal of Sport History. 13 (1): 43–45. ISSN 0094-1700. JSTOR 43609132.
  21. ^ Croisille, J. M. (1991). "Review of Hunting in the Ancient World". Latomus. 50 (3): 766–767. ISSN 0023-8856. JSTOR 41536174.