Nicholas Purcell (Classicist)

Nicholas Purcell FBA is Camden Professor of Ancient History ^[1] and a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. Before holding this post he was University Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow at St John's College, Oxford.

Biography

From 1974 to 1977 Nicholas Purcell was an undergraduate at Worcester College, Oxford before becoming Prize-Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford until 1979. From 1979 until October 2011 he was Tutorial Fellow at St John's College, Oxford, and was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2007. Upon becoming Camden Professor of Ancient History in October 2011 he became a Fellow of Brasenose College.

Bibliography

• Nicholas, Purcell (2000), The Corrupting Sea: a Study of Mediterranean History (with P. Horden), Blackwell 

• Nicholas, Purcell (2003), The way we used to eat: diet, community and history at Rome, American journal of philology 124.3 

• Nicholas, Purcell (2005), 'Romans in the Roman world' in K. Galinsky, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus, Cambridge University Press 

• Nicholas, Purcell (2006), 'The Mediterranean and “the New Thalassology"' (with Peregrine Horden), American historical review 

• Nicholas, Purcell (2007), 'The horti of Rome and the landscape of property’ n Res bene gestae: ricerche di storia urbana su Roma antica in onore di Eva Margareta Steinby, Festschrift M. Steinby 

References

1. ^ "Appointment: Camden Professorship of Ancient History". Oxford University Gazette (University of Oxford). 2011-04-28. http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2010-2011/28april2011-no4950/notices/#45175. Retrieved 2011-04-29. 

External links

• Mr Nicholas Purcell MA FBA Faculty homepage
• Mr Nicholas Purcell - Tutorial Fellow in Ancient History
• Nicholas Purcell - Quondam Fellow - All Souls College

Academic offices
Preceded by Alan Bowman	Camden Professor of Ancient History, Oxford University 2011-	Succeeded by

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