Alan Cameron (classical scholar)

Alan Cameron ( born March 13, 1938 Full Name: Alan Douglas Edward Cameron ) is a British classical scholar, historian and Byzantine Studies. He was long married to the Althistorikerin and Byzantinistin Averil Cameron.

Cameron studied at Oxford University ( BA 1961, MA 1964 ), taught since 1977 at Columbia University in New York and is now Charles Anthon Professor Emeritus of Latin. His teaching area includes Hellenistic and Roman seals, late classical literature, aspects of late antique and Byzantine history and the tradition history of ancient texts.

Cameron is one of the leading researchers Claudia. With its 1970 published treatise on the most important late Roman poet he gave numerous impulses. Although some of his conclusions are controversial, the book is still regarded as a standard work. Furthermore, Cameron, among others, the late Roman and early Byzantine circus parties and the conditions employed in the courts of Emperor Flavius ​​Honorius and Arcadius. In 1997, he was honored by the American Philological Association awarded the Goodwin Award of Merit in classical scholarship. In 2013 he received the Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies.

End of 2010, the long-awaited and very extensive study The Last Pagans of Rome, in the Cameron mainly deals with the pagan elites in the 4th century and among others, the idea of ​​a " pagan revival " rejects appeared after years of delay. He also puts in the work, the extent of the conflict between pagan and Christian ideas in this period and emphasized that many of the classic notions of culture were also Christians of importance.

Writings (selection )

  • Porphyrius the charioteer. In 1973.
  • Literature and Society in the Early Byzantine world. In 1985.
  • Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius. 1993 ( in collaboration with Jacqueline Long and Lee Sherry; meeting in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, online here ).
  • Callimachus and his critics. In 1995.
  • Greek mythography in the Roman World. 2004 ( meeting at Bryn Mawr Classical Review ).
  • The Last Pagans of Rome. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2011 (meeting at H -Soz -u-Kult; meeting in Bryn Mawr Classical Review ).
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