Alan Wace

Alan Wace

Alan Jonh Bayard Wace (* 13 de julio de 1879, Cambridge (Inglaterra) - 9 de noviembre de 1957 en Atenas (Grecia). Fue un arqueólogo inglés y director de la British School de Atenas de 1914 a 1923.

Wace fue profesor de Arqueología Clásica en la Universidad de Cambridge de 1934 a 1944 y en la Universidad Farouk I de Egipto de 1943 a 1952.

Entre sus proyectos de campo estaban los de Esparta, Micenas, Troya, Tesalia, Corinto y Alejandría.

Junto a Carl Blegen, Wace llevó a cabo importantes trabajos sobre el desciframiento de las tablillas escritas con escritura Lineal B.


Estudios

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


Referencias

  • David Gill, ‘Wace, Alan John Bayard (1879–1957)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • 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.

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