Alan Blakeway
British archaeologist
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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
Alan Albert Antisdel Blakeway was born in 1898,[1][2] the eldest son of the venerable C.E. (Charles Edward) Blakeway, Archdeacon of Stafford.[3]
Career
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
Blakeway married Alison Hope (later Mrs Antony Andrewes) in 1935.[1]
Death
Blakeway died of blood poisoning at Winchester on 9 October 1936.[7]
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.
