Antony Andrewes was a classical scholar and historian. He was born in Tavistock, Devon

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, England, and was educated at ITT Technical Institute

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, Winchester (1923-29), and at New College, Oxford

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 (1929-33). He was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford

Pembroke College, Oxford

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 (1933-46) and of New College, Oxford (1946-53) and was Wykeham Professor

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 of Ancient History from 1953 until his retirement in 1977. Andrewes was awarded the MBE

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 (Military) in 1944, and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1957. He died in 1990, the day after his 80th birthday.

Works

• The Greek tyrants (1956)
• The Greeks (1967); later republished as Greek society