A. John Graham

Alexander John Graham (born March 9, 1930 in Lowestoft , Suffolk , † December 26, 2005 in Cambridge ) was a British ancient historian .

Life

Graham came from a Quaker family from Suffolk and attended Bootham School in Yorkshire . He then did his military service in the British Army . After the war, Graham took a degree in history and classical philology at King's College in Cambridge (including with Victor Ehrenberg ), which he graduated in 1952. After the dissertation, which was also written in Cambridge, lectureships followed at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, at the British School at Athens and for two years at Bedford College in London. In 1957 he was offered a call to the University of Manchester , where Graham taught ancient history for twenty years . In 1977 he accepted a professorship for Classical Antiquities at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the "Allen Memorial Professor of Greek" until his retirement in 1995.

One of his main research interests was the Greek colonization , on which he wrote a highly regarded monograph ( Colony and Mother City in Ancient Greece ) as early as 1964 . In addition, he researched Roman history, cultural encounters in antiquity and the living conditions in ancient Greece, for which he was also able to use his knowledge of archeology and epigraphy . In 2002 it was dedicated to him by a group of former students of the band Oikistes: Studies in Constitutions, Colonies, and Military Power in the Ancient World Offered in Honor of AJ Graham .

Works (selection)

• 1964: Colony and Mother City in Ancient Greece
• 2001: Collected papers on Greek Colonization , Leiden: Brill.

Web links

• Entry on A. John Graham in the Database of Classical Scholars (English)
• Literature by and about A. John Graham in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary (Engl.)