Alan Cameron (classicist)

Alan Cameron
Alan Cameron
	Professor Cameron in March 2013
Born	Alan Douglas Edward Cameron; 13 March 1938
Died	31 July 2017 (aged 79); New York, USA
Nationality	British ; U.S.
Spouse(s)	Dame Averil Cameron (married 1962-1980); Carla Asher (married 1998)
Academic work
Discipline	Classics
Sub-discipline	Philology; Latin; Latin literature; Roman poetry; Ancient Greek literature; Late antiquity;
Institutions	University of Glasgow; Bedford College, London; King's College London; Columbia University;

Alan Douglas Edward Cameron, FBA (13 March 1938 – 31 July 2017) was a British classicist and academic. He was Charles Anthon Professor Emeritus of the Latin Language and Literature at Columbia University, New York. He was one of the leading scholars of the literature and history of the later Roman world and at the same time a wide-ranging classical philologist whose work encompassed above all the Greek and Latin poetic tradition from Hellenistic to Byzantine times but also aspects of late antique art.

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