Russell Meiggs

Russell Meiggs

Russell Meiggs (1902-June 24, 1989) was a British ancient historian, perhaps best known for his extensive work on the Roman port city of Ostia.

He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Keble College, Oxford. He was Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Balliol College, Oxford from 1939 to 1970. During World War II he worked at the Ministry of Supply in the timber section. Meiggs served as Prefect [http://alumni.balliol.ox.ac.uk/news/fd2001/holywell_manor.asp] of the College from 1945 until 1969. His eccentricity was legendary. His papers are in the Balliol College library.

Bibliography

*"The Athenian Empire" (1972)
*"Roman Ostia" (1960; 2nd ed. 1973)
*w/ J. B. Bury "A history of Greece to the death of Alexander the Great" (1978) multiple editions.
* "Trees and timber in the ancient Mediterranean world" (1982).
* ed. "A Selection of Greek historical inscriptions to the end of the fifth century B.C." (1988).
* A. Gallina Zevi, ed. "'Roman Ostia' revisited : archaeological and historical papers in memory of Russell Meiggs" (1996)

External links

* [http://www.webspawner.com/users/meiggs/index.html]
* [http://www.hist.unizh.ch/ag/e-learning/bdb_detail.php?id=329 Biography (German language)]

References

* [Obituary] Jasper Griffin in "The Independent" 27 June 1989; Oswyn Murray in "The Guardian" 28 June 1989.
* [Biography] Kenneth Dover in "Proceedings of the British Academy" 80 (1991) 361-70.
*Obituary by Glen Bowersock "Obituary: Russell Meiggs", In "Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society" 135 (1991), 473-77.
*Portrait by Michael Noakes in the collection of Balliol College, Oxford [http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/history/portraits/]


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