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'''Nigel Jonathan Spivey''' (born 18 October 1958) is a British [[classicist]] and academic, specialising in classical art and [[classical archaeology|archaeology]]. He is a [[senior lecturer]] in [[classics]] at the [[University of Cambridge]] and a fellow of [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge|Emmanuel College]]. He studied at Cambridge, the [[British School at Rome]], and the [[University of Pisa]].

As an undergraduate, he was a three-time champion in hammer throw at the Oxford{{Ndash}}Cambridge athletics match; he remains a member of the [[Achilles Club]], an [[Oxbridge]] sports organisation. During the 1990s, he conducted "Lunch with the FT" interviews for the ''[[Financial Times]]'' newspaper alongside his academic career.<ref>{{cite web |last=Engel |first=Matthew |date=2012-04-28 |title=Let's do lunch! |url=https://www.ft.com/content/930857a0-8d3d-11e1-8b49-00144feab49a |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=The Financial Times}}</ref>{{Efn|The morning after one such interview, with the poet [[Gavin Ewart]], Spivey received a call from Ewart's wife: "There are two things you need to know," she said. "The first is that Gavin came home yesterday happier than I have seen him in a long time. The second – and you are not to feel bad about this – is that he died this morning."<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.ft.com/content/930857a0-8d3d-11e1-8b49-00144feab49a| title=Let's do lunch!| date=2012-04-28| last=Engel| first=Matthew| access-date=2024-06-22| website=The Financial Times}}</ref>}}

* For Channel 5: ''[[Kings and Queens (TV series)|Kings and Queens]]'', and ''[[Heroes of World War II]]''.

*For the BBC: “[[Cunk on Earth]]”, Season 1, episodes 1{{Ndash}}2, 2022.

==Published works include ==

* ''Understanding Greek Sculpture'' (1996)

* ''Greek Art'' (1997)

* ''Panorama of the Classical World'' (with [[Michael Squire]]) (2004)

* ''The Ancient Olympics: War Minus the Shooting'' (2004)

* ''Greek Sculpture'' (2013), an "entire renovation" of ''Understanding Greek Sculpture''.<ref>Spivey, N. (2013), "Preface" in ''Greek Sculpture'', Cambridge University Press, 9780521756983</ref>

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=== References ===

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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080413005144/http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/faculty/staff-bios/academic-research-staff/nigel_spivey/ Cambridge Contact Page]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090913053331/http://www.pfd.co.uk/client/dr_nigel_spivey/ Public Speaking Contact Page]

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