Alan Wace

Alan John Bayard Wace (July 13, 1879 in Cambridge, England – November 9, 1957, in Athens, Greece) was an English archaeologist and director of the British School at Athens (1914-1923). Wace was professor of classical archaeology at University of Cambridge from 1934 to 1944 and at the Farouk I University in Egypt from 1943 to 1952. Among his field projects were those at Sparta, Mycenae, Troy, Thessaly, Corinth, and Alexandria. Along with Carl Blegen, Wace carried out important work on the decipherment of Linear B tablets.

Works

*"Prehistoric Thessaly" (1912).
*"Mycenae, an Archaeological History and Guide" (1949).
*"A Companion to Homer" (1962).

References

*David Gill, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/74552 ‘Wace, Alan John Bayard (1879–1957)’] , "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 1 June 2007
*F. H. Stubbings, "Alan John Bayard Wace, 1879–1957", "Proceedings of the British Academy", 44 (1958), 263–80.
*Carl Blegen, "Alan John Bayard Wace (1879–1957)", "American Philosophical Society Yearbook" (1958), 162–71.
*Sinclair Hood, ‘Alan John Bayard Wace’, "Gnomon" 30 (1958), 158–9.