Adrian Goldsworthy

Adrian Keith Goldsworthy (born 1969) is a British historian and author who specialises in ancient Roman history.

Biography

Goldsworthy attended Westbourne School, Penarth. After studying ancient and modern history at St John's College, Oxford, he completed a D.Phil in ancient military history from Oxford University in 1994, and then used his dissertation as the foundation of his first book, The Roman Army at War 100 BC – AD 200.

Goldsworthy was a Junior Research Fellow at Cardiff University for two years, and he has taught briefly at King's College London and was an assistant professor on the University of Notre Dame's London programme for six years. His expertise is in Roman history, but he also taught a course on the military history of the Second World War at Notre Dame University. Goldsworthy said that although he enjoyed teaching, he enjoyed writing more and now writes full-time.

Goldsworthy has appeared on History Channel documentaries and the television game show Time Commanders, serving as an expert on battles being fought by the contestants, and he gave a speech about Roman history and politics to the cast of a 2010 Liverpool production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.

Asked about his philosophy of life, Goldsworthy responded that he was "English, so obviously do not have a philosophy. I am a Christian, though, if you want to know about important beliefs." Goldsworthy lives in South Wales.

Works

Goldsworthy has written several acclaimed historical works on ancient Rome, especially the Roman army, and one novel.

• The Roman Army at War 100 BC – AD 200 (OUP, 1996)
• Roman Warfare (Cassell, 2000) ISBN 0-304-35265-9
• The Punic Wars (Cassell, 2000) ISBN 0-304-35967-X
  • Reprint title: The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265–146 BC, (Cassell, 2003) ISBN 978-0-304-36642-2
• Fields of Battle: Cannae (Orion, 2001) ISBN 0-304-35714-6
• Caesar's Civil War: 49–44 BC (2002), Osprey Publishing
• In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire (Orion, 2003) ISBN 0-7538-1789-6
• The Complete Roman Army (Thames & Hudson, 2003) ISBN 0-500-05124-0 |Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2003100798
• Caesar: Life of a Colossus, (Yale University Press, 2006) ISBN 0-300-12048-6
• The Fall of the West: The Death of the Roman Superpower (Orion 2009)
  • U.S. title: How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower, (Yale University Press, 2009) ISBN 0-300-13719-2
• Antony and Cleopatra (2010); Yale University Press
• True Soldier Gentleman (2011), (George Weidenfeld & Nicholson) ISBN 0-297-86035-6; his first novel

External links

• Adrian Goldsworthy's website
• Audio interview with Goldsworthy at National Review Online
• Interview with Goldsworthy on "New Books in History"