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Professor Nicholas Purcell FBA

Roman social, economic and cultural history, combining the evidence of inscriptions, literary texts, and archaeology; the place of ancient history in the long-term history of the Mediterranean basin and its adjoining regions.

Elected 2007

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2007
Sections
Classical Antiquity
Website
http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/nicholaspurcell.html

Current post

Brasenose College, Oxford Camden Professor of Ancient History

Past appointments

St John's College, Oxford Official Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History

1979 - 2011

All Souls College, Oxford Fellow by Examination

1977 - 1979

Publications

Rome and it's development under Augustus and his successors

Nicholas Purcell Peregrine Horden - Published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press

The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 10. The Augustan Empire, 43 BC–AD 69. Second edition

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