Alan Blakeway

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Alan Blakeway (born April 21, 1898 in Malvern (Worcestershire) , † October 9, 1936 in Winchester ) was a British classical archaeologist .

Blakeway attended Shrewsbury School and studied at Christ Church College , Oxford, Classical Studies from 1920 to 1924 . Here he and his fellow student Humfry Payne became a student of John D. Beazley . From 1925 to 1931 he was a teacher at Winchester College . In 1931 he became a Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Corpus Christi College , Oxford. With Humfry Payne he dug in Perachora (1929-1933) and on Crete (Fortetsa near Knossos ). After Payne's death in 1936, he took over the management of the British School at Athens , but died shortly afterwards of blood poisoning.

Fonts

  • Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Commerce with Italy, Sicily and France in the Eighth and Seventh Centuries BC In: Papers of the British School at Athens 33, 1932–33, pp. 170–208.
  • Demaratus. In: Journal of Roman Studies 25, 1935, pp. 129–149.
  • The Date of Archilochus. In: Cyril Bailey (Ed.): Greek poetry and life. Oxford 1936, pp. 34-55.

literature

  • Archaeological News and Discussions. In: American Journal of Archeology 40, 1936, p. 522 digitized .
  • Louise Zarmati: Alan Blakeway (1898-1936). In: Dictionary of British Classicists. Vol. 1, Bristol 2004, pp. 88-89.
personal data
SURNAME Blakeway, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blakeway, Alan Albert Atisdel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Classical Archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Malvern (Worcestershire)
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1936
Place of death Winchester