Edwyn Robert Bevan (1870-1943) was a versatile British philosopher and historian of the Hellenic world . 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... Ancient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. ...

He had an academic position at Kings College, London. The Arabist Anthony Ashley Bevan was his brother. He married Daisy Waldegrave, daughter of Granville Waldegrave, 3rd Baron Radstock. Kings College London (often abbreviated to KCL) in London is the largest and one of the most prestigious colleges in the federal University of London, with some 19,500 registered students. ...

Works

• The House of Seleucus (1902) 2 vols.
• Indian Nationalism : An Independent Estimate (1913)
• Stoics and Skeptics (1913)
• German War Aims (1917)
• Ancient Mesopotamia: The Land of The Two Rivers (1917)
• German Social Democracy During the War.(1918)
• The German Empire of Central Africa as the Basis of a New German World Policy (1918) with Emil Zimmermann
• Hellenism and Christianity (1921)
• The Hellenistic Age (1923) with J. B. Bury, E. A. Barber, W. W. Tarn
• The House of Ptolemy (1927) (online at LacusCurtius)
• The World of Greece and Rome (1927)
• Later Greek Religion (1927)
• Sibyls and Seers: A Survey of Some Ancient Theories of Revelation and Inspiration (1928)
• The Legacy of Israel (1928) editor with Charles Singer
• Thoughts on Indian Discontents (1929)
• Jerusalem under the high priests: five lectures on the period between Nehemiah and the New Testament (1930)
• The hope of a world to come; underlying Judaism and Christianity (1930)
• The Poems of Leonidas of Tarentum (1931)
• Christianity (1932)
• Our Debt to the Past (1932) with others
• After Death (1934) with others
• Symbolism and Belief (1938) Gifford Lectures
• Holy Images: An Inquiry Into Idolatry and Image-Worship in Ancient Paganism and in Christianity (1940)
• Christians in a World at War (1940)