Simon Rowland Francis Price (27 September 1954, London – 14 June 2011) was an English classical scholar, specialising in the

imperial cult An imperial cult is a form of state religion in which an emperor or a dynasty of emperors (or rulers of another title) are worshipped as demigods or deities. "Cult" here is used to mean "worship", not in the modern pejorative sense. The cult may ...

of ancient Rome.

Personal life

He was the son of the Anglican bishop

Hetley Price Stuart Hetley Price (14 June 1922 – 15 March 1977) was the inaugural Bishop of Doncaster who was later translated to Ripon. Educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge he was ordained in 1945. His first post was as Curate at ''St Michael ...

Education

Price studied at

Manchester Grammar School The Manchester Grammar School (MGS) in Manchester, England, is the largest independent school (UK), independent day school for boys in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1515 as a Grammar school#free tuition, free grammar school next to Manchester C ...

Queen's College, Oxford The Queen's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. The college was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield in honour of Philippa of Hainault. It is distinguished by its predominantly neoclassical architecture, ...

(BA and DPhil),

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

(where he was supervised by John North for his Oxford thesis) and

Christ's College, Cambridge Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 170 graduate students. The college was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as ...

(junior research fellow), as well as teaching at

Lady Margaret Hall Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located on the banks of the River Cherwell at Norham Gardens in north Oxford and adjacent to the University Parks. The college is more form ...

, Oxford (tutor and research fellow).

Bibliography

* Simon Price, ''Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor'' (1986) * Mary Beard, John North and Simon Price, ''Religions of Rome'' (1998); (vol. 1), (vol. 2) * Simon Price and Peter Thonemann, ''The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine'' (2011)

Necrology

*John North. "Simon Price obituary. Key figure in the study of Graeco-Roman religious history." In ''The Guardian'
August 21, 2011
*"Dr Simon Price (1954-2011)
Society for Classical Studies
*"Simon Price" ''The Telegraph'

References

1954 births 2011 deaths British historians of religion English classical scholars Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford Alumni of University College London Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge Fellows of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Scholars of Roman history Scholars of ancient Greek history Deaths from cancer {{UK-academic-stub