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Sources in collaboration with R. Meiggs), on format (as in his completion of Gomme's great commentary on Thucydides in collaboration with Sir Kenneth Dover) or on both (as in his Greek Tyrants and the Greeks), accuracy, style and insight were near to faultless. His insight which, with less adventurous hypotheses attached, he shared with his predecessor, Wade-Gery, had nothing loose or superficially enthusiastic about it. It was based on an intimate acquaintance with the literature and art of archaic and classical Greece, a deep but never over-pious love for them and an extraordinary sensitivity for humanity, qualities that kept him close to Maurice Bowra."
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colleague, as soon as he arrived in Greece "he made himself at home with people of all ranks and social levels, knew everybody's story and was immediately loved and revered by all who were capable of such feelings. To the Greeks he was simply Toni a name very properly considered to be Greek from the start."
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His published work was wide in appeal. The freedom of the specialised article, of which he wrote several of great importance, allowed him to indulge his subtlety of thought, sometimes at the expense of clarity. But where outside control was imposed on content (as in his superb revision of Hill's
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Andrewes was one of those scholars whose previous contacts with Greece equipped them to give invaluable assistance to the Greek resistance. His services in the northern Peloponnese, where he was dropped by parachute in 1943, were recognised by his being made MBE (military) in 1945. According a
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to the couple, and a friend said of their domestic life: "those who dropped in at their home in Manor Place will not forget that open, hospitable, civilised, irreverent and happy house."
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Kenneth Dover described his work on Thucydides as, "Comprehensive and penetrating treatment... He knew Greek extremely well, and he also knew Greece."
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In 1938 he married Alison (nÊe Hope), the widow of his mentor Alan Blakeway. They had two daughters together. Maurice Bowra dedicated his book
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in 1957. The Greek government made him a Commander of the Order of the Phoenix in 1978.
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On 4 January 1945, Andrewes was appointed Member of the military division of the
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In later years, Andrewes also supported the resistance movement against the
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English classical scholar and historian (1910–1990)
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MBE
FBA
Tavistock
Devon
Wykeham Professor of Ancient History
Winchester College
Alma mater
New College, Oxford
Ancient history
Ancient Greece
Pembroke College, Oxford
New College, Oxford
John Barron
MBE
FBA
Wykeham Professor of Ancient History
University of Oxford
Tavistock
Devon
Winchester College
New College, Oxford
Pembroke College, Oxford
New College, Oxford
commissioned
Intelligence Corps
British Army
second lieutenant
service number
captain
temporary

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