Michael Grant (author) 1458399 221872584 2008-06-26T13:43:12Z Demophon 1837101 {{for|the American police office and author|Michael Grant (crime writer)}} '''Michael Grant''' [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] ([[21 November]] [[1914]] &ndash; [[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]]. {{Expand-section|date=June 2008}} ==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== {{reflist}} ==External links== *[http://isbndb.com/d/person/grant_michael.html A more extensive bibliography of Michael Grant's works] {{DEFAULTSORT:Grant, Michael}} [[Category:1914 births]] [[Category:2004 deaths]] [[Category:English classical scholars]] [[Category:English historians]] [[Category:English numismatists]] [[Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire]] [[Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge]] [[Category:People associated with Queen's University Belfast]] [[cs:Michael Grant]] [[da:Michael Grant (historiker)]] [[de:Michael Grant]] [[pl:Michael Grant (historyk)]]