Fergus Millar

Fergus Millar
Born	5 July 1935 (1935-07-05)
Education	Trinity College and All Souls College, Oxford
Occupation	Professor of Ancient History

Sir Fergus Graham Burtholme Millar FBA (born 5 July 1935) is a British historian and Camden Professor of Ancient History Emeritus, Oxford University. He received the Kenyon Medal for Classics from the British Academy in 2005. Millar numbers among the most influential ancient historians of the twentieth century.

Millar was educated at Trinity College (B.A.) and All Souls College, Oxford. At Oxford he studied Philosophy and Ancient History, and received his D. Phil. degree there in 1962.

He has held positions in University College, London and Oxford University, where, from 1984 until his retirement in 2002, he was Camden Professor of Ancient History.

Millar has served as editor of the Journal of Roman Studies (1975–1979) and as President of the British Classical Association (1992–1993), and holding various offices in the British Academy, to which he was elected a Fellow in 1976.

Millar is an authority in the field of ancient Roman and Greek history. His accolades include honorary doctorates from Oxford and Helsinki, and elected memberships in foreign academies. His first book, A Study of Cassius Dio (1964), set the tone for his prolific scholarly production. He has continued to produce important works, including The Roman Near East (31 BC – AD 337) (1993), a path breaking, non-Romano-centric treatment of this area. His further work includes The Crowd in the Late Republic (1998) and The Roman Republic in Political Thought (2002).

He was knighted in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours.

Publications

• Millar, Fergus (1964). Study of Cassius Dio. Oxford University Press. p. 250 pages. ISBN 0198143362. 
• Millar, Fergus; Berciu, D (1967), The Roman Empire and its neighbours, London Weidenfeld & Nicolson, OCLC 264971844, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/264971844 
• Millar, Fergus (1967). Roman Empire and Its Neighbours. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 370 pages. ISBN 0715615696. 
• Millar, Fergus (1977). The Emperor in the Roman World, 31 BC-AD 337. Cornell University Press. p. 657 pages. ISBN 0801410584. 
• Millar, Fergus; Erich Segal (1984). Caesar Augustus: Seven Aspects. Clarendon Press. p. 221 pages. ISBN 0198148585. 
• Millar, Fergus (1993). The Roman Near East (31 BC-AD 337). Harvard University Press. p. 587 pages. ISBN 0674778863. http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=acls;cc=acls;q1=roman%20near%20east;rgn=title;view=toc;idno=heb01455.0001.001. 
• Millar, Fergus (1998). The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic. University of Michigan Press. p. 236. ISBN 0472088785. 
• Millar, Fergus (2002). The Roman Republic in political thought. Hanover. p. 201 pages. ISBN 1584651997.  Series: Menahem Stern Jerusalem lectures
• Millar, Fergus; edited by Hannah M. Cotton and Guy M. Rogers (2002). Rome, the Greek World, and the East vol. 1: The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution. Chapel Hill. p. 383 pages. ISBN 0807849901. 
• Millar, Fergus; edited by Hannah M. Cotton and Guy M. Rogers (2004). Rome, the Greek World, and the East vol. 2: Government, Society and Culture in the Roman Empire. Chapel Hill. p. 470 pages. ISBN 0807855200. 
• Millar, Fergus; edited by Hannah M. Cotton and Guy M. Rogers (2006). Rome, the Greek World, and the East: Volume 3: The Greek World, the Jews, and the East. The University of North Carolina Press. p. 552 pages. ISBN 0807856932. 
• Millar, Fergus (2006), A Greek Roman Empire : power and belief under Theodosius II (408–450), Univ. of California Press, cop, ISBN 9780520247031, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/185350612 

See also

• Cassius Dio

External links

• Professor Fergus Millar staff page at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
• Journal of Jewish Studies announcement of "History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ."

Academic offices
Preceded by Peter Brunt	Camden Professor of Ancient History, Oxford University 1984–2002	Succeeded by Alan Bowman