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Barbara Mary Levick was a British historian and epigrapher born on the 21st of June 1931. She specialised in the Late Roman Republic and Early Empire, with particular expertise in Roman colonies in Asia Minor and biographies of Roman emperors and imperial women. She was recognised as one of the leading Roman historians of her generation.
Levick was appointed a university fellow and tutor for Roman History at St Hilda's College, Oxford in 1959. She held that position across a career that spanned several decades and produced more than a dozen books.
Her first book, Roman Colonies in Southern Asia Minor, was published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford in 1967. It drew on fieldwork she conducted at Yalvaç in Turkey during the mid-1950s and was described as a resilient classic of Roman history forty years after its publication.
Her DPhil, on Roman colonies in South Asia Minor, was supervised by Ronald Syme and undertaken in the mid-1950s. The research involved two solo trips to Turkey, where Levick focused on the region of Pisidia.
Levick wrote biographies of Tiberius (1976), Claudius (1990), Vespasian (1999), Augustus (2010), and a study of The Year of the Four Emperors (2000). Her Claudius biography was translated into French in 2002 by the historian Isabelle Cogitore.
Barbara Levick died on the 6th of December 2023, at the age of 92.