Michael Grant (author)
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'''Michael Grant''' [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] ([[21 November]] [[1914]] – [[4 October]] [[2004]]) was an English [[Classics|classicist]] and [[numismatist]]. According to his obituary in ''[[The Times]]'' he was "one of the few classical historians to win respect from [both] academics and a lay readership".<ref> [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article493478.ece ''The Times'', 13 October 2004] </ref> Immensely prolific, he wrote and edited more than 50 books of nonfiction and translation, covering topics from [[Roman coinage]] and the eruption of [[Mount Vesuvius]] to the [[Gospel]]s and [[Jesus]]. He described himself as "one of the very few freelances in the field of ancient history: a rare phenomenon". His translation of [[Gaius Cornelius Tacitus|Tacitus]]' ''[[Annals (Tacitus)|Annales]]'' was published in 1989. His autobiography, ''My First Eighty Years'', appeared in 1994.
==Biography==
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 [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in 1946, the [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in 1958, and was vice-chancellor (president) of the [[Queen's University of Belfast]] and [[University of Khartoum]].
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==Books==
===Original Works===
*''From Imperium to Auctoritas'' (1946/Rev ed, 1971?), ''Treatise on bronze coins''
*''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) [AKA ''Ancient History Atlas'']
*''Cleopatra'' (1972)
*''The Jews in the Roman World'' (1973/ Rev ed, 1984) [AKA *''The Jews and the Roman World'']
*''Caesar'' (1974)
*''Army of the Caesars'' (1974)
*''The Twelve Caesars'' (1975)
*''The Fall of the Roman Empire'' (1976/ Rev ed, 1990) ISBN 0-02-028560-4
*''Paul'' (1976)
*''Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospels'' (1977)
*''History of Rome'' (1978) ISBN 0-02-345610-8 ISBN 978-0571114610
*''Greece and Italy in the Classical World'' (1978/ Rev ed, 19??)
*''The Etruscians'' (1980)
*''Greek and Latin Authors: 800 BC - AD 1000'' (1980)
*''Dawn of the Middle Ages'' (1981) -- coffee table book
*''From Alexander to Cleopatra: the Hellenistic World'' (1982) [AKA ''The Hellenistic Greeks'' (1990)]
*''The History of Ancient Israel'' (1984)
*''The Roman Emperors: A Biographical Guide to the Rulers of Imperial Rome 31BC - 476 AD'' (1985)
*''A Guide to the Ancient World: A Dictionary of Classical Place Names'' (1986)
*''The Rise of the Greeks'' (1987)
*''The Classical Greeks'' (1989)
*''The Visible Past: Greek and Roman History from Archaeology, 1960-1990'' (1990) [AKA ''The Visible Past: An Archaeological Reinterpretation of Ancient History'']
*''Founders of the Western World: A History of Greece and Rome'' (1991) [AKA ''A Short History of Classical Civilization'']
*''Greeks and Romans: A Social History'' (1992) [ AKA ''A Social History of Greece and Rome'']
*''The Emperor Constantine'' (1993) [AKA ''Constantine the Great: The Man and His Times'' (1994)]
*''The Antonines: The Roman Empire in Transition'' (1994)
*''St Peter: A Biography'' (1994)
*''My First Eighty Years'' (1994), ''Autobiography''
*''Greek and Roman Historians: Information and Misinformation'' (1995)
*''The Severans: The Changed Roman Empire'' (1996)
*''Art in the Roman Empire'' (1996)
*''From Rome to Byzantium: The Fifth Century'' (1998)
*''Sick Caesars'' (2000)
*''Saint Paul'' (2000)
===Translations===
*Cicero, ''Selected Works'' (1965)
*Cicero, ''Selected Political Speeches'' (1969)
*Cicero, ''Murder Trials'' (19??)
*''Cicero on the Good Life'' (1971)
*Cicero, ''Letters to Atticus'' (19??)
*Tacitus, ''The Annals of Imperial Rome'' (1956/ Rev ed, 1977)
*Cicero, ''On Government'' (1993)
===Editor/Reviser===
*''Roman Readings'' (1958/67) [AKA ''Latin Literature: An Anthology'' (1979/new biblio 1989)]
*''Roman Literature'' (19??/ Rev ed, 19??/1964)
*''Greek Literature'' (19??)
*Suetonius, ''The Twelve Caesars: An Illustrated Edition'' (1979; Trans, Robert Graves, 1957)
*''Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean'' (with R. Kitzinger, 1988)
*''Readings in the Classical Historians'' (1992)
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://isbndb.com/d/person/grant_michael.html A more extensive bibliography of Michael Grant's works]
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