Simon RF Price

Simon Rowland Francis Price (born September 27, 1954 in London , † June 14, 2011 in Oxford ) was a British ancient historian and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall , University of Oxford .

Price, son of the Anglican Bishop Stuart Hetley Price (1922-1977), studied after attending the Manchester Grammar School at Queen's College , Oxford, where he received his BA and DPhil. His supervisor for the DPhil was John A. North at University College London . After that, he was initially the WHD Rouse Research Fellow at Christ's College of the University of Cambridge . Since 1981 he has been a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall , Oxford.

Price was an internationally respected specialist in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, as well as the history of the ancient Greek and Roman religions , especially the interaction of religious traditions in the imperial era (including Judaism and Christianity ), the imperial cult, and other ruler cults . In particular, his monograph on the Roman imperial cult in Asia Minor, published in 1984, provided research with important impulses. Most recently Price was also involved in the archaeological prospecting of the Sphakia in southwest Crete by his wife Lucia Nixon, Jennifer Moody and Oliver Rackham. In 2007 he was diagnosed with a rare cancer disease that forced him to give up teaching in 2008. He remained scientifically active until the end.

Works (selection)

as an author

• with Peter Thonemann: The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine. Penguin, Harmondsworth 2011.
  • German translation: The birth of classical Europe. A History of Antiquity from Troy to Augustine . WBG-Theiss, Darmstadt 2018, ISBN 978-3-8062-3822-8 .
• Religions of the Ancient Greeks . University Press, Cambridge 2006, ISBN 0-521-38867-8 (reprinted from Cambridge 1999 edition).
• with Mary Beard and John A. North: Religions of Rome . University Press, Cambridge 1998 (2 vols.)
  • Volume 1: A history . 2000, ISBN 0-521-30401-6 .
  • Volume 2: A sourcebook . 2000, ISBN 0-521-45646-0 .
• Rituals and Power. The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor . University Press, Cambridge 1998, ISBN 0-521-31268-X (reprinted from Cambridge 1984 edition).

as editor

• Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion . University Press, Oxford 2003, ISBN 0-19-280288-7 (with Emily Kearns).
• Representations of Empire. Rome and the Mediterranean World (Proceedings of the British Academy; 114). University Press, Oxford 2002, ISBN 0-19-726276-7 (with Alan K. Bowman, Hannah M. Cotton and Martin Goodman).
• Apologetics in the Roman Empire. Pagans, Jews and Christians . University Press, Oxford 1999, ISBN 0-19-826986-2 (with Mark Edwards and Martin Goodman).
• The Greek City. From Homer to Alexander . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990, ISBN 0-19-814791-0 (with Oswyn Murray ).
• Rituals of Royalty. Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies . University Press, Cambridge 1987, ISBN 0-521-42891-2 (with David Cannadine).

Web links

• John North : Simon Price obituary. Key figure in the study of Graeco-Roman religious history . In: The Guardian, Sunday August 21, 2011
• The Archeology of Crete , with Lucia Nixon, 2002 [1]
• The Sphakia Survey: Internet Edition , with Lucia Nixon, Jennifer Moody and Oliver Rackham, 2000 [2]
• Literature by and about Simon RF Price in the WorldCat bibliographic database