Brian C. McGing is a

papyrologist Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations ...

and

ancient historian Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history to as far as late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history cove ...

, who specialises in the

Hellenistic period In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 3 ...

. He is Regius Professor of Greek at

Trinity College Trinity College may refer to: Australia * Trinity Anglican College, an Anglican coeducational primary and secondary school in , New South Wales * Trinity Catholic College, Auburn, a coeducational school in the inner-western suburbs of Sydney, New ...

, Dublin. He is editor of the college's journal of the classical world, '' Hermathena''.''Hermathena'' - A Trinity College Dublin Review.
Trinity College, Dublin. Retrieved 26 July 2016. In 2004, McGing was elected a

Member of the Royal Irish Academy The Royal Irish Academy (RIA; ga, Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann), based in Dublin, is an academic body that promotes study in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. It is Ireland's premier learned society and one its leading cultural ...

(MRIA).

Selected publications

*''Polybius' Histories''.

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...

, Oxford, 2010. *''The limits of ancient biography''.

Classical Press of Wales Classical may refer to: European antiquity *Classical antiquity, a period of history from roughly the 7th or 8th century B.C.E. to the 5th century C.E. centered on the Mediterranean Sea *Classical architecture, architecture derived from Greek and ...

, 2006. (ed. with Judith Mossman) *"Population and proselytism. How many Jews were there in the ancient world?" in John R. Barlett (ed.), ''Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman cities''. London, 2002. pp. 88–106. *"Revolt Egyptian style: Internal opposition to Ptolemaic rule", ''Archiv für Papyrusforschung und Verwandte Gebiete'', 43 (1997), pp. 273–314. *''Greek papyri from Dublin''. Bonn, 1995. *"Appian's Mithridateios", ''Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt II'', 34.1, Bonn, 1993. pp. 496–522. *"Melitian monks at Labla", ''Tyche'' 5 (1990), pp. 67–94. *''The foreign policy of Mithridates VI Eupator King of Pontus''. Leiden, 1986.

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