John K. Davies (historian)

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John Kenyon Davies, FBA , FSA (born 19 September 1937) is a British classical historian and retired academic. Between 1977 and 2003, he was Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool.

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Davies was born in 1937 and brought up in Cardiff. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, and then went up to Wadham College, Oxford, graduating in 1959. He matriculated at Merton College, Oxford in 1960 as a Harmsworth Senior Scholar. [1] From 1961 to 1962, he studied in the United States, as a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. [2] He completed his DPhil in 1966. [3] He was the Dyson Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, from 1963 to 1965 and then Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of St Andrews until 1968, when he was elected to a fellowship at Oriel College, Oxford. In 1977, he moved to the University of Liverpool to take up the Rathbone Chair of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology. He retired in 2003, having been Pro-Vice-Chancellor between 1986 and 1990 and a Leverhulme Research Professor from 1995 to 2000. [3] [4] Davies was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1985 [4] and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1986. [3]

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Personal life

While in Washington in 1961 he met the Italian philologist Anna Morpurgo, and married her the following year. The marriage was dissolved in 1978. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 521.
  2. ↑ "Past Fellows 1961-1969". Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University. Retrieved 22 January 2020.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. 1 2 3 "Davies, Prof. John Kenyon", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  4. 1 2 "Professor John Davies FBA", The British Academy . Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  5. ↑ Andreas Willi (9 October 2014). "Anna Morpurgo Davies obituary". The Guardian . Retrieved 22 January 2020.
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