Michael Grant

1914 - 2004

country of citizenship: United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Harrow School, Trinity College

occupation: historian, classical philologist, archaeologist, numismatist, writer, classical scholar, administrator, historian of classical antiquity, scientist, academic administrator, actor, film director, university teacher, opinion journalist, translator

award received: Commander of the Order of the British Empire

position held: President of the Royal Numismatic Society

Michael Grant (21 November 1914 – 4 October 2004) was an English classicist, numismatist, and author of numerous books on ancient history. His 1956 translation of Tacitus's Annals of Imperial Rome remains a standard of the work. Having studied and held a number of academic posts in the United Kingdom and the Middle East, he retired early to devote himself fully to writing. He once described himself as "one of the very few freelancers in the field of ancient history: a rare phenomenon". As a populariser, his hallmarks were his prolific output and his unwillingness to oversimplify or talk down to his readership. He published over 70 works. Source: Wikipedia (en)