Fergus Millar

Sir Fergus Graham Burtholme Millar ( born July 5, 1935 in Edinburgh ) is a British historian.

After attending school at the Edinburgh Academy and Loretto School from 1943 to 1953 and the military service in the Royal Navy Millar studied from 1955 to 1958 at Trinity College, Oxford Classical Studies ( " Greats "). From 1958 to 1964 he was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. In 1958 he was awarded a doctoral fellowship at All Souls College and received his doctorate in 1962 Ronald Syme on Cassius Dio. 1964 Millar became professor of Ancient History at Queen 's College, Oxford, in 1976 as a successor Arnaldo Momiglianos Professor at University College London. In 1984 he returned to the University of Oxford, when he accepted a call to the Camden Chair of Ancient History, the had held Ronald Syme and Peter Brunt before him. He retired in 2002.

Millar is considered one of the most important historian of the 20th century. He dealt with many topics, especially in Roman history, such as the imperial administration activities, the Middle East in the Roman period, Late Antiquity (especially Theodosius II ) or the question of what role did the people in the Constitution of the Roman Republic Millar stressed in a series of essays, the democratic elements of the system and thus came to an intensive debate.

From the University of Oxford Millar was awarded in 1988 the title of D. Litt. , Of the British Academy, which he joined in 1976, 2005, Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies. 2010 Queen Elizabeth II awarded him a knighthood and raising him in the personal, non- hereditary peerage.

Writings

  • A Study of Cassius Dio. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1964.
  • Publisher: The Roman Empire and its neighbors. Fischer -Taschenbuch -Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1966 Fischer World History, Vol 8
  • The emperor in the Roman world (31 BC- AD 337 ). Duckworth, London, 1977; Second edition, 1992, ISBN 0-7156-1722-2.
  • The crowd in Rome in the late republic. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1998, ISBN 0-472-10892-1.
  • The Roman republic in political thought. University Press of New England, Hanover 2002, ISBN 1-584-65199-7.
  • Rome, the Greek world and the east. Edited by Hannah M. Cotton and Guy M. Rogers. 3 volumes. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 2002-2006 ( Collected Writings; meetings of Vol 2, Vol 3).
  • A Greek Roman Empire. Power and Belief under Theodosius II University of California Press, Berkeley, 2006, ISBN 978-0-520-24703-1.
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