Edward Togo Salmon

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Edward Togo Salmon (May 29, 1905, in

Salmon is best known for his academic career at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where he taught for 43 years from 1930. He held the posts of Chair of the Department of History and Messecar Professor of History at McMaster, as well as the first Principal of University College and Academic Vice-President. He is the namesake of the university's Togo Salmon Hall.^[3] A fund named in his honor supports the classics at McMaster.^[4] He helped established the McMaster Museum of Art in 1967.

During the Second World War he was a news commentator on station CKOC.^[5]

Selected bibliography

Source:^[6]

• 1944; rev. ed 1963, 1968. A history of the Roman world from 30 B.C. to A.D. 138.
• 1967. Samnium and the Samnites. Cambridge University Press.
• 1970. Roman colonization under the Republic. Cornell University Press.
• 1974. Polis and imperium : studies in honour of Edward Togo Salmon. Toronto: Hakkert.
• 1974. The nemesis of empire. Oxford University Press.
• 1982. The making of Roman Italy. Cornell University Press.

References

External links

• Edward Togo Salmon at the Database of Classical Scholars
• The Making Of The Peace, 17 Apr 1947 (speech)