Alan Blakeway
Alan Albert Antisdel Blakeway (1898 - 9 October 1936) was a British archaeologist who was director of the British School at Athens.
Early life
Alan Albert Antisdel Blakeway was born in 1898,[1][2] the eldest son of the venerable C.E. Blakeway archdeacon of Stafford.[3]
Career
Blakeway was a master at Winchester School from 1924 to 1931. He was a fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford.[4] He was appointed director of the British School at Athens in 1936 but died the same year.[1][5] He was replaced by G.M. Young.
Family
Blakeway married Alison Hope (later Mrs Antony Andrewes) in 1935.[1]
Death
Blakeway died of blood poisoning at Winchester on 9 October 1936.[6]
Selected publications
- "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.
See also
References
- 1 2 3 Berlin, Isaiah; Henry Hardy (Ed.) (2012). Flourishing: Letters 1928-1946. Random House. pp. 366–367. ISBN 978-1-4481-0478-9.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Marriages". The Times, 12 November 1935, p. 17.
- ↑ "Mr. Alan Blakeway." The Times, 12 October 1936, p. 19.
- ↑ "British Scholars in Athens", The Times, 14 October 1936, p. 15.
- ↑ "Deaths", The Times, 12 October 1936, p. 1.
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