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Guy Dickins
1881–1916
A gifted Oxford classical archaeologist, he wrote with unusual clarity about Greek sculpture and helped shape early 20th-century understanding of the Acropolis. His career was cut tragically short when he died of wounds received in the First World War.
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Hellenistic sculpture
by Guy Dickins
About the author
Born in 1881, Guy Dickins was a British classical archaeologist and scholar of Greek art. He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he turned from an earlier plan to enter the Indian Civil Service toward the study of classics and archaeology.
His work focused especially on ancient sculpture. He was associated with Oxford as a fellow and lecturer of St John's College and as a university lecturer in classical archaeology, and he also worked with the British School at Athens. Among the projects most closely linked with his name is the first volume of the Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum, along with studies that were later gathered into Hellenistic Sculpture.
Dickins died in 1916 from wounds received in action on the Western Front during the First World War. Although his life was brief, his writing remained important enough to be published after his death, and it still gives modern readers a vivid sense of how seriously he approached the art and ideas of the ancient world.