Robert Manuel Cook

Robert Manuel Cook (4 July 1909 – 10 August 2000) was a classical scholar and classical archaeologist from England with expertise in Greek painted vases. He was Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, the author of several academic texts and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1974, having been made a Fellow of the German Archaeological Institute in 1953.

Biography Robert Cook was born in Sheffield on 4 July 1909, the son of a clergyman and his wife, the Reverend Charles Robert and Mary Manuel Cook. After a period of home schooling and then boarding school, Cook was educated at Marlborough College between 1923 and 1929, then went up to Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a double first in Classics. He was awarded a Walston scholarship in 1932 and spent the next two years undertaking research in the British School at Athens. Photographs attributed to Cook and annotated the British School Athens are held in the Conway Library whose archive, of primarily architectural images, is being digitised under the wider Courtauld Connects project.

In 1938, Cook married Kathleen Porter (d. 1979). The Cooks enjoyed travelling together and, in 1968, they published a joint work, Southern Greece: An Archaeological Guide. His younger brother was John Manuel Cook, also a noted scholar of antiquity.

Publications Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum ... British Museum ... Descriptions of the ancient vases in the Department (Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Great Britain. fasc. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 13.) by Robert Manuel Cook, Edgar John Forsdyke, Frederick Norman Pryce, and Arthur Hamilton Smith ASIN: B0014KZ0KU Ionia and Greece in the Eighth and Seventh Centuries B.C (1948) ASIN: B000WUDKT6 Amasis mepoiesen (Journal of Hellenic Studies), Council of the Society (1949) ASIN: B0007KCI94 Thucydides as archaeologist (Annual of the British School at Athens), MacMillan (1955) ASIN: B0007KCIB2 Speculations on the origin of coinage Bell & Howell Co., Micro Photo Div (1958) ASIN: B0007HDDGE The Greeks till Alexander (Ancient peoples and places series) Thames & Hudson (1962) ASIN: B0000CLAQI A corinthianising dinos in Cambridge, " L'Erma " di Bretschneider (1965) ASIN: B0007KCIBC Southern Greece: An Archaeological Guide. Attica, Delphi and the Peloponnese, Robert and Kathleen Cook, Faber & Faber (1968) ASIN: B000WULHMS A note on the absolute chronology of the eighth centuries and seventh centuries B.C (Annual of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, (1969) ASIN: B0007KBOOY Greek Art: Its Development, Character and Influence, Farrar Straus & Giroux (T) (1973) Greek and Roman Pottery (with R.J. Charleston), Kodansha America, Inc (1979)