Robert Malcolm Errington

Robert Malcolm Errington (born July 5, 1939 in Howdon-on-Tyne ) is a British ancient historian and epigraphist .

R. Malcolm Errington is the son of a teacher and studied Classics at the University of Durham from 1958 to 1963 . 1961 followed the BA 1966 he received a PhD in Ancient History in Durham. Errington was a lecturer and reader at Queen's University Belfast from 1966 to 1973 . From 1973 until his retirement in 2004 he taught ancient history at the Philipps University in Marburg .

Errington deals with the structure of the Greek states, the political history of Greece, the political history of Macedonia , the Hellenistic world , Roman expansion, Roman-Greek relations before and during the Roman Empire , Roman legal history, Christian late antiquity and the relationships between the eastern and western half of the empire.

Errington is a full member of the German Archaeological Institute . From 2001 to 2007 he was the project manager of Inscriptiones Graecae . Errington's academic students include Hans-Ulrich Wiemer and Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner .

Fonts

• Philopoemen. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1969, ISBN 0-19-814270-6 (Also: Durham, Univ., Diss., 1966).
• The Dawn of Empire: Rome's Rise to World Power. Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1972, ISBN 978-0-801-49128-3 .
• History of Macedonia. From the beginning to the fall of the kingdom. Beck, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-406-31412-0 .
• Roman Imperial Policy from Julian to Theodosius. Studies in the History of Greece and Rome. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 2006, ISBN 0-8078-3038-0 .
• A History of the Hellenistic World. 323-30 BC (= Blackwell History of the Ancient World. ). Blackwell, Malden MA et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-631-23387-9 .

literature

• Catalogus professorum Academiae Marburgensis = The academic teachers of the Philipps University in Marburg. Vol. 3: From 1971 to 1991. Part 1: Department 01-19. Edited by Inge Auerbach, Marburg 2000, p. 154.

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Malcolm Errington in the catalog of the German National Library