Michael Grant (Historian)
Michael Grant ( London , 21 November 1914 - 4 October 2004 ) is a British academic specialist in numismatics and history, Greek , Etruscan and Roman.
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After studying classical Trinity College of Cambridge , Michael Grant was a professor at Edinburgh University. A prolific writer, he wrote no fewer than 50 books (essays and translations comments), on issues ranging from the Roman Numismatic the eruption of Vesuvius or the Gospels. He himself described as "one of the very few freelance writers of the past: a rare bird. He was an Officer (1946) and Commander (1958) of the Order of the British Empire , was vice-president of Queen's University Belfast and the University of Khartoum. The eulogy of the newspaper The Times said it was "one of the few ancient historians to win the admiration of scholars and the general public."
Publications
Personal titles
- From Imperium to auctoritas (1946/Rev ed, 1971?), Treatise on bronze corners
- Ancient History (1952)
- Roman Imperial Money (1954)
- Roman History from Coins (1958 / Rev. ed, 1968)
- The World of Rome (1960 / Rev. ed, 19? / 1974 / 1987)
- The Ancient Mediterranean (1961 / Rev. ed, 1969)
- Myths Of The Greeks and Romans (1962/new biblio: 1986) ( ISBN 0-452-01162-0 )
- Greece and Rome: The Birth of Western Civilization (1964 / Rev. ed, 1986)
- The Civilizations of Europe (1965)
- The Gladiators (1967)
- The Climax of Rome: The Final Achievements of the Ancient World, AD 161-337 (1968 / Rev. ed, 19? / 1974)
- Julius Caesar (1969)
- The Ancient Historians (1970)
- The Roman Forum (1970)
- Nero (1970)
- Herod the Great (1971)
- Roman Myths (1971)
- Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii and Herculaneum (1971)
- Atlas of Classical History (1971 / Rev. ed 1974/1986/1989/1994) Translations
- Cicero, Selected Works (1965)
- Cicero, Selected Political Speeches (1969)
- Cicero, Murder Trials (1975)
- Cicero On the Good Life (1971)
- Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome (1956 / Rev. ed, 1977)
- Cicero, On Government (1993)
Editor
- Novel Readings (1958-1967) References
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