Alan Keir Bowman, FBA (born 23 May 1944) is a British classicist and academic.
[2] He remained at Toronto to undertake a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree which he completed in 1969.
[2] In 1995 Bowman became founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents at Oxford.
[5] In 1996, Bowman co-edited volume 10 of the Cambridge Ancient History second edition series, entitled The Augustan Empire, 43 BC - AD 69.
His fellow editors were Andrew Lintott, also of Oxford, and Edward Champlin, of Princeton University.