The most popular historian of the classical world A thrilling and harrowing account of one of the most famous natural disaster in history Full of unexpected facts, such as the revelation that many of the classical texts which survive to this day do so only because the papyri were 'cooked' in the famous library at Herculaneum allowing them to be preserved for many centuries.
Michael Grant (1914-2004) was a highly successful and renowned historian of the ancient world. He held many academic posts including those of Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University; Vice Chancellor of The Queen's University, Belfast and Vice Chancellor of the University of Khartoum. He was a Doctor of Letters at Dublin and a Doctor of Laws at Belfast. He has also been President of the Classical Association of England, the Virgil Society and the Royal Numismatic Society, and was a Medallist of the American Numismatic Society.
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