Peter Garnsey

Professor Peter Garnsey FBA FAHA
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (1972)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Sydney University of Oxford
Academic work
Discipline	Ancient history
Sub discipline	Social history Economic history Food and drink
Institutions	Jesus College, Cambridge University of Cambridge
Doctoral students	Richard Miles

Peter David Arthur Garnsey, FBA, FAHA (born 22 October 1938) is a retired British classicist and academic. He was a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1974 to 2006, and Professor of the History of Classical Antiquity at the University of Cambridge from 1997 to 2006.^[1][2] His area of research concerns the history of political theory, intellectual history, social and economic history, food, famine and nutrition, and physical anthropology.

Bibliography

Books

• Social Status and Legal Privilege in the Roman Empire (1970). Oxford University Press.
• The Roman Empire: Society, Economy and Culture (1987) London 1987. Co-author.
• Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World (1988). Cambridge University Press.
• Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine (1996). Cambridge University Press.
• Cities, Peasants and Food (1998). Cambridge University Press.
• Food and Society in Classical Antiquity (1999). Cambridge University Press.
• Evolution of the late Antique World (2001). Cambridge University Press. Co-author.
• Lactantius, Divine Institutes. Introd/Transl./Notes (2003). Liverpool University Press. Co-author.
• Thinking about Property, antiquity to the age of revolution (2007). Cambridge University Press
• Cambridge Ancient History vols. XI (2000), XII (2005), XIII(1998). Co-editor

References

1. Garnsey – Prof Peter D A, PhD, FBA, Jesus College, University of Cambridge. Retrieved 13 May 2012. Archived here.
2. "GARNSEY, Prof. Peter David Arthur". Who's Who 2016. Oxford University Press. November 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2016.

External links

• Peter Garnsey Faculty of Classics homepage
• Peter Garnsey homepage at Jesus College, Cambridge