Richard Ernest Wycherley (18 February 1909 – 26 April 1986),[1] was British a classical
archaeologist, specialising in ancient
Greece. He attended
Queens' College at the
University of Cambridge, attaining a bachelor's degree in 1930 and a diploma in classical archaeology in 1931. He was Assistant Lecturer for Classics at the University of Manchester from 1932 to 1937 and later Lecturer until 1945. He was Emeritus Professor of Greek at the
University of Wales.
He was the author of the Companion Volume to the
Loeb Edition of
Pausanias, Description of Greece;[2][3] How the Greeks Built Cities; The Athenian Agora III, Literary and Epigraphical Testimonia and The Stones of Athens. He was also co-author with
Homer Thompson of The Athenian Agora XIV, The History, Shape and Uses of an Ancient City Center.[4]