10-29-2017, 06:23 PM
Alan Cameron, Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Columbia University, New York (1977–2008), and latterly Emeritus Professor, has died in New York.
He will probably be best known on RAT for his contributions to the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, or for his Last Pagans of Rome, a veritable doorstop of a tome, but some may recall his (scholarly) sniping at the members of the Historia Augusta Colloquia, particularly over the idea that the HA might have been an anti-Christian tract, but also over its relationship with Ammianus and Jerome.
Columbia don't seem to have put up an obituary yet: http://classics.columbia.edu/alan-cameron.
He will probably be best known on RAT for his contributions to the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, or for his Last Pagans of Rome, a veritable doorstop of a tome, but some may recall his (scholarly) sniping at the members of the Historia Augusta Colloquia, particularly over the idea that the HA might have been an anti-Christian tract, but also over its relationship with Ammianus and Jerome.
Columbia don't seem to have put up an obituary yet: http://classics.columbia.edu/alan-cameron.
