Alan Wace

Alan John Bayard Wace ( born July 13, 1879 in Cambridge, † November 9, 1957 in Athens ) was a British archaeologist.

Wace visited the Shrewsbury School and studied since 1898 at Pembroke College, Cambridge (BA 1901, MA 1906). In 1902 he spent at the British School at Athens, 1903-04 at the British School at Rome, the librarian, he was in 1905-06. 1912 to 1914 he was a lecturer in Ancient History at the University of St Andrews.

From 1914 to 1923 he was director of the British School at Athens, 1924-1934 Deputy Head of the Textile Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and from 1934 to 1944 Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. In retirement, he was from 1944 to 1952 worked as a professor of archeology at the University of Alexandria.

Wace led, inter alia, Excavations in Sparta, Mycenae, Troy, Thessaly, Corinth and Alexandria. His main field of research was the Bronze Age Greece.

Since 1929 he was a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London, since 1947, the British Academy.

Writings (selection )

• Prehistoric Thessaly (1912).
• The nomads of the Balkans. An account of life and customs among the Vlachs of northern Pindus (1913).
• Mycenae, to Archaeological History and Guide (1949 ).
• (Ed.): A Companion to Homer. London 1962.