Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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Professor Peter Garnsey

Professor Peter Garnsey is Emeritus Professor of the History of Classical Antiquity and a Fellow of Jesus College.

Contact:

Post:  Jesus College, CB5 8BL
Email:pdag1@cam.ac.uk
Tel: 01223 (3)39420 (College)

Major publications:

Social Status and Legal Privilege in the Roman Empire Oxford 1970
The Roman Empire: Society, Economy and Culture  London 1987. Co-author
Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World. Cambridge 1988
Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine. Cambridge  1996
Cities, Peasants and Food. Cambridge 1998
Food and Society in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge 1999
Evolution of the late Antique World. Cambridge 2001. Co-author
Lactantius, Divine Institutes. Introd/Transl./Notes  Liverpool 2003. Co-author
Thinking about Property, antiquity to the age of revolution.Cambridge 2007
Cambridge Ancient History vols. XI (2000), XII (2005), XIII(1998). Co-editor

Current research interests:

History of Political Theory  and Intellectual History; social and economic history; food, famine and nutrition; physical anthropology

Recent graduate research topics supervised: 

The Representation of Children in the Early Roman Empire
Late Antique Martyrs, narration and representation
Poverty in the early Roman Empire
The Christian Promotion and Practice of Almsgiving in the Later Roman Empire
Ambrosiaster’s Political Theology
Roman Bazaar:A comparative study of trade and markets in a tributary empire
Plato and Theodoret: The Christian appropriation of Platonic Philosophy