Nicholas Hammond (historian)
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Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond CBE, DSO (November 14, 1907 – March 24, 2001) was a British historian — teaching at Cambridge and Bristol — who specialized in ancient Greece and Macedonia in particular.
Hammond was educated at Fettes College[1] and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
During the Second World War, Hammond participated in the Greek Resistance as a member of the British Military Mission.
He was Headmaster of Clifton College from 1954 to 1962 and Professor of Greek at Bristol University from 1962 to 1973.
He was known for his works about Alexander the Great and for suggesting the relationship of Vergina with Aegae, the ancient Macedonian royal city, before the archaeological discoveries.
He died in 2001.
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- Migrations and Invasions in Greece and Adjacent Areas
- Alexander the Great. King, Commander, and Statesman
- Oxford Classical Dictionary (second edition)
- The Genius of Alexander the Great
- The end of Mycenaean Civilization and Dark Age: the literary tradition
- Philip of Macedon
- A History of Greece to 322 B.C
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