Chester G. Starr
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| Born | October 5, 1914 Greco-Roman civilization |
| Notable works | A History of the Ancient World |
Chester G. Starr (October 5, 1914 in
Greco-Roman civilization. According to the University of Michigan, he was "the acknowledged dean of ancient history in America."[1]
Starr studied at
University of Illinois, Urbana. He became a professor in the same department, a position he held until 1970, when he moved to the University of Michigan. From 1973 to 1985 he held the Bentley Chair at Michigan. In 1974 he became the first president of the American Association of Ancient Historians
.
During
United States Fifth Army
in Italy from 1942 to 1946. As a result of that commission, he wrote a nine-volume compilation entitled Fifth Army History, and a popular book about it titled From Salerno to the Alps (1948).
Among his historical works are twenty-one books, dozens of articles and over one hundred book reviews. His best-known text, A History of the Ancient World, was reissued with successive enlargements between 1965 and 1991. His historiographical methodology has been described as
Braudelian concept of longue durée
.
Among his other works are The Awakening of the Greek Historical Spirit (1968), Economic Growth of Early Greece (1977), The Beginnings of Imperial Rome: Rome in the Mid-Republic (1980), The Flawed Mirror (1983) and Past and Future in Ancient History (1987).[2]
Notes
- ^ http://ur.umich.edu/9900/Oct04_99/19.htm Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine. Rtvd 2013-11-03.
- ^ Josiah Ober Article in The Independent Archived 2012-10-22 at the Wayback Machine 15 October 1999.
