Robert Malcolm Errington (born 5 July 1939 in
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), also known as R. Malcolm Errington, is a retired British
historian who studied
ancient Greece and the
Classical world. He is a
professor emeritus from
Queen's University Belfast
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Life and career
Errington is the son of a teacher. He studied
Classical Antiquity from 1958 to 1963 at
Durham University
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From 1966 to 1973 he served as a lecturer and reader at the
Queen's University Belfast
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. From 1973 until his retirement, he taught Ancient History at the
University of Marburg. Errington dealt with the structure of the
Greek states
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Greece
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, the political
history of Greece
The history of Greece encompasses the history of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they inhabited and ruled historically. The scope of Greek habitation and rule has varied thro ...
, the political history of
Macedonia, the
Hellenistic world, the
Roman expansion, the
Roman-Greek relations before and during the
Roman Empire,
Roman legal history,
Christian history, and the relations of the
Eastern and
Western Roman Empire. He is a full member of the
German Archaeological Institute. From 2001 to 2007 he was project manager of the ''
Inscriptiones Graecae''.
Works
* ''Philopoemen.'' Clarendon Press, Oxford 1969, (Zugleich: Durham, Univ., Diss., 1966).
* ''Geschichte Makedoniens. Von den Anfängen bis zum Untergang des Königreiches.'' Beck, München 1986, .
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* ''Roman Imperial Policy from Julian to Theodosius. Studies in the History of Greece and Rome.'' University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill NC 2006, .
* ''A History of the Hellenistic World. 323–30 BC'' (= ''Blackwell History of the Ancient World.''). Blackwell, Malden MA u. a. 2008, .
* ''Die Verträge der griechisch-römischen Welt von ca. 200 v. Chr. bis zum Beginn der Kaiserzeit'' (= ''Die Staatsverträge des Altertums, 4. Band.''). Verlag C.H. Beck, München 2020, .
See also
*
List of historians by area of study
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By time period
Ancient history
* Sedat Alp (1913, Veroia, The Ottoman Empire - 2006, Ankara, Türkiye) Hittitolog- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
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Citations
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1939 births
British historians
Living people
Alumni of Hatfield College, Durham
Academics of Queen's University Belfast
Academic staff of the University of Marburg