Nigel Spivey

{{Short description|British academic (born 1958)}}

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| alma_mater = Emmanuel College, Cambridge

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| discipline = Classical studies

| sub_discipline = Etruscan iconography, polychromy in Greek sculpture

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Nigel Jonathan Spivey (born 18 October 1958) is a British classicist and academic, specialising in classical art and archaeology. He is a senior lecturer in classics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of 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.{{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}}{{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."{{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}}}}