Curated category
Historians of ancient Rome
- Christopher Kelly (historian)Christopher Kelly, a British-Australian classicist and historian born in London and raised in Sydney, has spent his career asking a question that most people…
- Adrian GoldsworthyAdrian Goldsworthy, born in 1969, once summed up his outlook in a single blunt line. "English, so obviously do not have a philosophy.
- Barbara LevickBarbara Mary Levick made two solo trips to Turkey in the mid-1950s, a young woman travelling alone through Anatolia at a time when the field of epigraphy was…
- Howard Hayes ScullardHoward Hayes Scullard was born on the 9th of February 1903 in Bedford, England, and spent his career turning the chaotic centuries of Rome's rise and fall…
- Edward GibbonIt was on the night of the 27th of June 1787, between eleven and midnight, that Edward Gibbon wrote the last lines of his life's great work in a summer-house…
- Andrew Wallace-HadrillAndrew Frederick Wallace-Hadrill was born in Oxford on the 29th of July 1951, the son of a mediaeval historian. That family connection to the deep past may…
- Georges DumézilGeorges Dumézil was born in Paris on the 4th of March 1898, the son of a highly educated general in the French Army. By the time he died in the same city on…
- Theodor MommsenTheodor Mommsen stood up at a formal banquet at the University of Berlin in 1892, and the entire room rose with him. Mark Twain was there, seated at the head…
- Ronald SymeRonald Syme published The Roman Revolution in 1939, just as fascism was tightening its grip on Europe, and the book hit the scholarly world like nothing…
- Barthold Georg NiebuhrBarthold Georg Niebuhr was born in Copenhagen on the 27th of August 1776, the son of Carsten Niebuhr, a prominent German geographer.
- Clifford AndoClifford Ando was born in 1969, and by the time he reached Princeton University as an undergraduate, he was already drawn to a world two millennia removed…