British classical scholar (1938 ? 2017)
Alan Cameron
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Professor Cameron in March 2013
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Born
| Alan Douglas Edward Cameron
13 March 1938
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Died
| 31 July 2017
(2017-07-31)
(aged 79)
New York, USA
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Nationality
| British
U.S.
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Spouse(s)
| Dame
Averil Cameron
(married 1962-1980)
Carla Asher (married 1998)
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Discipline
| Classics
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Alan Douglas Edward Cameron
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FBA
(13 March 1938 ? 31 July 2017) was a British classicist and academic. He was Charles Anthon Professor Emeritus of the Latin Language and Literature at
Columbia University
, New York. He was one of the leading scholars of the literature and history of the later Roman world and at the same time a wide-ranging classical philologist whose work encompassed above all the Greek and Latin poetic tradition from Hellenistic to Byzantine times but also aspects of late antique art.
Life
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He was educated at
St. Paul's School, London
(1951?56). He went on to
New College, Oxford
, earning a first class in
Honour Moderations
(1959) and
Literae Humaniores
(1961). He was married, from 1962 to 1980, to Dame
Averil Cameron
, with whom he has a son and a daughter. In 1998 he married Carla Asher, who survives him.
Cameron began his academic career as a lecturer at the
University of Glasgow
(1961). He then became a Lecturer and then a Reader in Latin at
Bedford College, London
(1964-1972). From 1972 to 1977 he held the Chair of Latin at
King's College London
. He went to
Columbia University
as Charles Anthon Professor in 1977.
Cameron was elected a
Fellow of the British Academy
(FBA) in 1975. He became a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
in 1978 and a Fellow of the
American Philosophical Society
in 1992. In March 1997 he was awarded the
American Philological Association
's Goodwin Award. In 2005, he received Columbia University's Lionel Trilling Award.
In 2013, he was awarded the
Kenyon Medal
for Classical Studies and Archaeology of the
British Academy
. The award dedication read as follows:
Alan Cameron has produced a major series of books on various aspects of the later Graeco-Roman world, from early Hellenistic times to the late Empire. He has a remarkable flair for synthesising literary with social and political history, at the same time clarifying the nature and relationships of the sources, and he regularly subjects long-accepted doctrines to examination and challenge. For students of Hellenistic poetry his Callimachus and His Critics (1995) has become a central point of reference, while his work on the Palatine Anthology, The Greek Anthology: From Meleager to Planudes (1993) threw much new light on the transmission of that great composite collection of epigrams. Other major works have included Claudian: Poetry and Propaganda at the Court of Honorius (1970), Greek Mythography in the Roman World (2004), and most recently The Last Pagans of Rome (2011).
Cameron also published about 200 scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects related to the ancient world.
He died on 31 July 2017 in New York.
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Selected works
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Cameron's books include:
- Claudian: Poetry and Propaganda at the Court of Honorius
(1970)
- Porphyrius the Charioteer
(1973)
- Circus Factions: Blues and Greens at Rome and Byzantium
(1976)
- Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius
(May 1992) (with Jacqueline Long and Lee Sherry)
- The Greek Anthology: From Meleager to Planudes
(1993)
- Callimachus and his Critics
(1995)
- Greek Mythography in the Roman World
(2004) (reviewed by T P Wiseman in the
Times Literary Supplement
, 13 May 2005 page 29)
- The Last Pagans of Rome
(2011) (reviewed by Peter Brown in the
New York Review of Books
, 7 April 2011)
- Wandering Poets and Other Essays in Late Antique Poetry and Philosophy
(2015).
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