The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 42, October 17, 2004, Article 10

ANOTHER MICHAEL GRANT OBITUARY

  "MICHAEL GRANT was one of the few classical historians
  to win respect from academics and a lay readership.
  Immensely prolific, he wrote and edited more than 50 books
  of nonfiction and translation, covering topics from Roman
  coinage and the eruption of Vesuvius to the Gospels and
  Christ.

  "I have always wanted people to be better informed," he once
  wrote, "and having absorbed over the years a certain, limited
  amount of information myself, I have wanted to pass it on as
  palatably as I can - first through academic channels, of which
  I have had the good fortune to be able to avail myself, and
  then through my own publications." Such a prescription found
  shape in his books and in his career outside writing; he was
  for many years active in the British Council's project to promote
  British culture overseas, and he taught classics at the universities
  of Cambridge and Edinburgh.

  Michael Grant was born in 1914. Educated at Harrow, he
  went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1933 to read classics.
  After graduating, he took up a research fellowship to write the
  thesis that he would publish as his first book, From Imperium to
  Auctoritas, in 1946. Perhaps surprisingly, he began his writing
  career in academic numismatics. Over the ensuing decade he
  wrote four books on Roman coinage, arguing that the conflict
  between imperatorial eccentricity and the traditionalism of the
  Roman mint made coinage, used as propaganda and currency,
  a unique social record. Later he would become president and
  honorary fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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