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Alan Cameron

British classical scholar (1938-2017) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 79

Alan Douglas Edward Cameron, was a British classicist and academic. He was Charles Anthon Professor Emeritus of the Latin Language and Literature at Columbia University, New York.

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Kenyon Medal2013
Goodwin Award1996
Guggenheim Fellowship
Fellow of the British Academy

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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.

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United Kingdom
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Writers
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Writer / Author
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Deceased
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Lived 1938 to 2017 · aged 79