John A. North
John A. North (born May 5, 1938 ) is an English ancient historian and professor emeritus at University College London .
North studied at Queen's College , Oxford , and received her doctorate there with a dissertation on the relationship between politics and religion in Republican Rome. North then taught at University College London for 40 years . There he was Head of the Department of History from 1992 to 1997 and from 2000 to 2002. In 2003 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the University College and Emeritus Professor of History. He has headed the Institute of Classical Studies since 2012 .
His research focus is the religious history of Rome and the Roman Empire . After his retirement, North is involved in the Festus Lexicon Project , which aims to process the information in the lexicon De verborum significatu of the Sextus Pompeius Festus for research into the history of the Roman Republic. North is also co-author of a University College London story entitled The World of UCL with Negley Harte .
Fonts
- with TJ Cornell, MH Crawford: Art and Crafts in the Roman World , edited and translated by H. Galsterer, with the participation of B. Galsterer-Kröll, (on the occasion of the exhibition Glass of the Caesars in the Roman-Germanic Museum Cologne; April 16 - August 28, 1988), Olivetti, Milano 1988, DNB 943444438 .
- with Mary Beard , Simon RF Price : Religions of Rome. 15th edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York, NY 2013, © 1998, (English)
- Volume 1: History. Early Rome , ISBN 978-0-521-30401-6 .
- Volume 2: A Sourcebook , ISBN 978-0-521-45015-7 .
- with Mary Beard (Ed.): Pagan Priests: Religion and Power in the Ancient World. Duckworth, London 1990, ISBN 0-7156-2206-4 (English).
- with Negle Harte: The World of UCL 1828–2004 . Foreword by Malcolm Grant. 3. Edition. UCL Press, London 2004, ISBN 978-1-84472-068-2 (English).
Web links
- Literature by and about John A. North in the catalog of the German National Library
- John North on the UCL website
- The Festus Lexicon Project
- The Third World , 2004
- Professor John North appointed Acting Director of the Institute of Classical Studies , School of Advanced Study, Wednesday 07 December 2011
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| SURNAME | North, John A. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English ancient historian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1938 |