Guy Dickins

Guy Dickins was a British classical archaeologist and art historian who focused on ancient Greek sculpture. After initially considering or entering civil service work in India, he turned to classical studies at Oxford and went to the British School at Athens as a Craven Fellow in 1904.

In Greece, he worked on excavations in Lakonia, including Thalamae and the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta. He later returned to Oxford, where he became a Fellow of St John's College and lectured in ancient history and classical archaeology. His published work included studies of Spartan art, the Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum, and the book Hellenistic Sculpture, which was brought out after his death from material he had gathered.

Dickins died in 1916 at Pozières during the Battle of the Somme while serving as a captain in the King's Royal Rifle Corps. Even with a short career, he left a strong impression as a thoughtful scholar of Greek art whose work continued to be valued after his death.