I have just learned of the death of Edward (Ted) Champlin, long-time professor of Classics at Princeton.
I didn't know him well, but he was one of the more productive—and perhaps under-appreciated—anglophone Roman historians of the last 50 years.
A short thread.
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I didn't know him well, but he was one of the more productive—and perhaps under-appreciated—anglophone Roman historians of the last 50 years.
A short thread.
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This is a classic Oxonian study of the politics, society, and culture of a particular period—in this case, the high empire of the mid-second century CE—as viewed through the lens of a single author (also perhaps under-appreciated).
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At a time when the study of Roman law was still mostly dominated by the formalists, this monograph belongs to the exciting early wave of social histories based on legal material (still in the ascendant).
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And I think it will stand the test of time.
RIP
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