Julian Bennett (archaeologist)
Julian Bennett is an English archaeologist .
Julian Bennett graduated from the University of Durham with a bachelor's degree in archeology in 1978 . After he started his graduate studies at Newcastle University , he got a position as excavation director of the English Heritage and studied only part-time. He finally completed his studies in 1991 with a doctorate on a topic of Roman archeology. The title of his dissertation was The Setting, Development and Function of the Hadrianic Frontier in Britain . Since 1995 he has been teaching at Bilkent University in Ankara , Turkey. His fields of work are provincial Roman and military archeology as well as late Roman and Byzantine architecture in Anatolia. Bennett was mainly concerned with the archeology of the northern provinces in the 2nd century AD. He published numerous studies on Roman and medieval Britain and the Roman army . His biography about Trajan , published in 1997 , has also been translated into Romanian and Russian. The biography is, however, only partially reliable due to its numerous factual errors. In 2001 a revised second edition of the biography appeared. In 2002 Bennett was inducted into the Society of Antiquaries .
Fonts
- Trajan. Optimus Princeps. A Life And Times . 1997, 2nd edition. Routledge, London 2001, ISBN 0-415-16524-5 .
- Towns in Roman Britain . 1980, 4th edition, Shire 2001, ISBN 0-7478-0473-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review of the 1st edition 1997 by Werner Eck , in: Scripta Classica Israelica . 17, 1998, pp. 231-234. Karl Strobel: Emperor Traian. An epoch in world history. Regensburg 2010, p. 18.
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| SURNAME | Bennett, Julian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English classical archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |