Michael Grant (author)
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Michael Grant CBE (21 November 1914 – 4 October 2004) was an English classicist and numismatist who was one of the few classical historians to win respect from academics and a lay readership. He wrote and edited more than 50 books of nonfiction and translation which covered topics from Roman coinage and the eruption of Vesuvius to the Gospels, describing himself as "one of the very few freelances in the field of ancient history: a rare phenomenon". His translation of Tacitus' Annales was published in 1989. His autobiography, My First Eighty Years, appeared in 1994.
Michael Grant was born in London, and read classics at Trinity College, Cambridge and was professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University. He was awarded the OBE in 1946, the CBE in 1958, and was vice-chancellor (president) of the Queen's University of Belfast and University of Khartoum.
[edit] Selected Works
- Myths of the Greeks and Romans (1962, ISBN 0-452-01162-0)
- Gladiators (1967)
- Nero (1970)
- The Jews in the Ancient World (1973)
- Constantine The Great: The Man And His Times
- The Army of the Caesars (1974)
- The Twelve Caesars (1975, title taken from Suetonius)
- History of Rome (1978, ISBN 0-02-345610-8)
- Dawn of the Middle Ages (1981)
- The Roman Emperors (1985)
- The Fall of the Roman Empire (1990, ISBN 0-02-028560-4)
- Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospels (1990)
- Greek and Roman Historians: Information and Misinformation (1995)
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