Robert Malcolm Errington (born 5 July 1939 in

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), also known as R. Malcolm Errington, is a retired British historian who studied ancient Greece and the Classical world. He is a professor emeritus from

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and the University of Marburg.

Life and career

Errington is the son of a teacher. He studied Classical Antiquity from 1958 to 1963 at

Durham University , mottoeng = Her foundations are upon the holy hills (Psalm 87:1) , established = (university status) , type = Public , academic_staff = 1,830 (2020) , administrative_staff = 2,640 (2018/19) , chancellor = Sir Thomas Allen , vice_chan ...

. He was active in

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. In 1961 he achieved a first-class BA. In 1966 he received his PhD from Durham. Institute for Advanced Study.
Robert Malcolm Errington
" Accessed 27 April 2017. From 1966 to 1973 he served as a lecturer and reader at the

. From 1973 until his retirement, he taught Ancient History at the University of Marburg. Errington dealt with the structure of the

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, the political

history of Greece The history of Greece encompasses the history of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they inhabited and ruled historically. The scope of Greek habitation and rule has varied thro ...

, the political history of Macedonia, the Hellenistic world, the Roman expansion, the Roman-Greek relations before and during the Roman Empire, Roman legal history, Christian history, and the relations of the Eastern and Western Roman Empire. He is a full member of the German Archaeological Institute. From 2001 to 2007 he was project manager of the '' Inscriptiones Graecae''.

Works

* ''Philopoemen.'' Clarendon Press, Oxford 1969, (Zugleich: Durham, Univ., Diss., 1966). * ''Geschichte Makedoniens. Von den Anfängen bis zum Untergang des Königreiches.'' Beck, München 1986, . * * ''Roman Imperial Policy from Julian to Theodosius. Studies in the History of Greece and Rome.'' University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill NC 2006, . * ''A History of the Hellenistic World. 323–30 BC'' (= ''Blackwell History of the Ancient World.''). Blackwell, Malden MA u. a. 2008, . * ''Die Verträge der griechisch-römischen Welt von ca. 200 v. Chr. bis zum Beginn der Kaiserzeit'' (= ''Die Staatsverträge des Altertums, 4. Band.''). Verlag C.H. Beck, München 2020, .

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Errington, Robert Malcolm 1939 births British historians Living people Alumni of Hatfield College, Durham Academics of Queen's University Belfast Academic staff of the University of Marburg

Life and career

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