John Kenyon Davies,FBA, FSA (born 19 September 1937) is a British classical historian and retired academic. Between 1977 and 2003, he was Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at theUniversity of Liverpool.

Davies was born in 1937 and brought up in Cardiff. He was educated atManchester Grammar School, and then went up toWadham College, Oxford, graduating in 1959. He matriculated atMerton College, Oxford in 1960 as a Harmsworth Senior Scholar.^[1] From 1961 to 1962, he studied in the United States, as a Fellow at theCenter for Hellenic Studies inWashington, D.C.^[2] He completed hisDPhil in 1966.^[3] He was the DysonJunior Research Fellow atBalliol College, Oxford, from 1963 to 1965 and thenLecturer in Ancient History at theUniversity of St Andrews until 1968, when he was elected to afellowship atOriel College, Oxford. In 1977, he moved to theUniversity of Liverpool to take up the Rathbone Chair of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology. He retired in 2003, having beenPro-Vice-Chancellor between 1986 and 1990 and aLeverhulme Research Professor from 1995 to 2000.^[3][4] Davies was elected aFellow of the British Academy in 1985^[4] and a Fellow of theSociety of Antiquaries of London in 1986.^[3]

• Athenian Propertied Families 600–300 BC (Clarendon Press, 1971).
• Democracy and Classical Greece (Harvester Press, 1978; 2nd ed.Harvard University Press, 1993).
• Wealth and the Power of Wealth in Classical Athens (Arno Press, 1981).
• (Edited withLin Foxhall)The Trojan War: Its Historicity and Context (Bristol Classical Press, 1984).
• (Edited with D. M. Lewis,John Boardman and M. Ostwald)The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 5 (2nd ed.,Cambridge University Press, 1992).
• (Edited with Zofia H. Archibald)Hellenistic Economies (Routledge, 2001).
• (Edited with Zofia H. Archibald and Vincent Gabrielsen)Making, Moving, and Managing: The New World of Ancient Economies, 323–31 BC (Oxbow, 2005).
• (Edited with Zofia H. Archibald and Vincent Gabrielsen)The Economies of Hellenistic Societies, Third to First Centuries BC (Oxford University Press, 2011).
• (Edited with John Wilkes)Epigraphy and the Historical Sciences (Oxford University Press for theBritish Academy, 2012).

While in Washington in 1961 he met the ItalianphilologistAnna Morpurgo, and married her the following year. The marriage was dissolved in 1978.^[5]

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