Alan Blakeway

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Alan Albert Antisdel Blakeway (1898 - 9 October 1936) was a British archaeologist who was director of the British School at Athens.

Early life[edit]

Alan Albert Antisdel Blakeway was born in 1898,[1][2] the eldest son of the venerable C.E. Blakeway archdeacon of Stafford.[3]

Career[edit]

Blakeway was a master at Winchester College from 1924 to 1931.[4] He was a fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford.[5] He was appointed director of the British School at Athens in 1936 but died the same year.[1][6] He was replaced by G.M. Young.

Family[edit]

Blakeway married Alison Hope (later Mrs Antony Andrewes) in 1935.[1]

Death[edit]

Blakeway died of blood poisoning at Winchester on 9 October 1936.[7]

Selected publications[edit]

  • "Prolegomena to the study of Greek commerce with Italy, Sicily, and France in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.," Annual of the British School at Athens, 33, pp. 170–208.
  • "Demaratus: A study in some aspects of the earliest Hellenisation of Latium and Etruria", Journal of Roman Studies, 1935.
  • Lectures on early Greek history and the Peloponnesian League. Oxford, 1935.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Berlin, Isaiah; Henry Hardy (Ed.) (2012). Flourishing: Letters 1928-1946. Random House. pp. 366–367. ISBN 978-1-4481-0478-9.
  2. ^ Dyson, Stephen L. (2006). In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts: A History of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 195. ISBN 0-300-13497-5.
  3. ^ "Marriages". The Times, 12 November 1935, p. 17.
  4. ^ Obituary in Nature
  5. ^ "Mr. Alan Blakeway." The Times, 12 October 1936, p. 19.
  6. ^ "British Scholars in Athens", The Times, 14 October 1936, p. 15.
  7. ^ "Deaths", The Times, 12 October 1936, p. 1.