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Richard Ernest Wycherley

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Occupation
  
Archaeologist

Name
  
Richard Wycherley


Role
  
Author

Died
  
April 26, 1986

Books
  
The Agora of Athens: The Histo, The stones of Athens, How the Greeks Built Cities

Richard Ernest Wycherley (February 18, 1909 – April 26, 1986), was a classical archaeologist, specializing in ancient Greece. He attended Queens' College at the University of Cambridge and was Emeritus Professor of Greek at the University of Wales.

He was the author of the Companion Volume to the Loeb Edition of Pausanias, Description of Greece; How the Greeks Built Cities; The Athenian Agora III, Literary and Epigraphical Testimonia and The Stones of Athens. He was also co-author with Homer Thompson of The Athenian Agora XIV, The History, Shape and Uses of an Ancient City Center.

Publications

  • The Stones of Athens, Princeton University Press, 1978.
  • How the Greeks built cities, Macmillan, 1976.
  • The Agora of Athens: The History, Shape, and Uses of an Ancient City Center with Homer Thompson, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1972.
  • Athenian Agora III, Literary and Epigraphical Testimonia, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1957.
  • References

    Richard Ernest Wycherley Wikipedia