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American historian
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Male
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Birth:
1957
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Harvard University
University of Oxford
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Biography
Introduction
David Stone Potter (born 1957) is the Francis W. Kelsey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Roman History and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Professor of Greek and Latin in Ancient History at The University of Michigan. Potter is a graduate of Harvard (A.B. 1979) and Oxford (D.Phil 1984) universities and specialises in Greek and Roman Asia Minor, Greek and Latin historiography and epigraphy, Roman public entertainment, and the study of ancient warfare.
Selected publications
- Literary Texts and the Roman Historian. London: Routledge, 1999.
- The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180–395, London: Routledge, 2004; 2nd edition, 2014.
- Emperors of Rome: Imperial Rome from Julius Caesar to the last emperor. London: Quercus, 2008. ISBN 9781847245526