Fergus Graham Burtholme Millar

Professor Fergus Millar is the Camden Professor of Ancient History Emeritus at the University of Oxford. He is an authority on Roman and Near Eastern history. He is a fellow of the British Academy and foreign member of the Finnish and Russian Academies, as well as former fellow of All Souls College and Queen''s College, Oxford, and former professor at University College London. Professor Millar is a renowned authority in the field of ancient Roman and Greek history. His numerous accolades include honorary doctorates from Oxford and Helsinki, and elected memberships in important foreign academies. His first book, A Study of Cassius Dio (1964), set the tone for his outstanding and prolific scholarly production. Forty years later, this study is still the best on Cassius Dio, an author central to the understanding of the history of the Roman Empire. His second book, The Emperor in the Roman World (31 BC - AD 337) (1977) is likewise an outstanding contribution. In this tome, Millar for the first time puts all the activities of the Roman emperors into social and cultural context, seeing them as active players in the daily life of the empire, not just as caricatures of political action and social/cultural excellence/evil. He has continued to produce important works, including The Roman Near East (31 BC - AD 337) (1993), a pathbreaking, non-Romano-centric treatment of this important area. His further work includes The Crowd in the Late Republic (1998) and The Roman Republic in Political Thought (2002). Professor Millar has also published numerous articles and has lectured widely on a great range of topics, especially concentrated in Roman history in all its aspects.