Werner Eck (born 17 December 1939) is Professor of Ancient History at Cologne University, Germany, and a noted expert on the history and

epigraphy Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the w ...

of imperial Rome.Eck, W. (2007) ''The Age of Augustus''. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, cover notes. His main interests are the

prosopography Prosopography is an investigation of the common characteristics of a group of people, whose individual biographies may be largely untraceable. Research subjects are analysed by means of a collective study of their lives, in multiple career-line an ...

of the Roman ruling class (Magistrates, Senate) and the ancient city of

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium was the Roman colony in the Rhineland from which the city of Cologne, now in Germany, developed. It was usually called ''Colonia'' (colony) and was the capital of the Roman province of Germania Inferior and ...

. He also researched the

Bar Kokhba Revolt The Bar Kokhba revolt ( he, , links=yes, ''Mereḏ Bar Kōḵḇāʾ‎''), or the 'Jewish Expedition' as the Romans named it ( la, Expeditio Judaica), was a rebellion by the Jews of the Roman province of Judea, led by Simon bar Kokhba, ag ...

from the Roman point of view.Eck, Werner, “The Bar Kokhba Revolt: The Roman Point of View,” JRS 89 (1999), pp. 76-89

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German language publications: * ''Senatoren von Vespasian bis Hadrian. Prosopographische Untersuchungen mit Einschluss der Jahres- u. Provinzialfasten der Statthalter''. Beck, München 1970, (''

Vestigia Vestigiality is the retention, during the process of evolution, of genetically determined structures or attributes that have lost some or all of the ancestral function in a given species. Assessment of the vestigiality must generally rely on co ...

'', Band 13). * ''Die staatliche Organisation Italiens in der hohen Kaiserzeit''. Beck, München 1979, (''Vestigia'', Band 28). * ''Die Statthalter der germanischen Provinzen vom 1. - 3. Jahrhundert''. Rheinland-Verlag, Köln 1985, (''Epigraphische Studien'', Band 14). * ''Agrippina, die Stadtgründerin Kölns. Eine Frau in der frühkaiserzeitlichen Politik''. Greven, Köln 1993, . * ''Die Verwaltung des Römischen Reiches in der Hohen Kaiserzeit. Ausgewählte Beiträge''. 2 Bände, Reinhardt, Basel 1995, ; 1998, . * (with Antonio Caballos and Fernando Fernández) ''Das Senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre''. Beck, München 1996, (''Vestigia'', Band 48). * ''Augustus und seine Zeit''. Beck, München 1998, 4. Auflage 2006, (with English, Spanish, Italian and Czech translations). * '' Cambridge Ancient History''. Band XI, Cap. IV–VII, 2000, S. 195–293. * ''Köln in römischer Zeit. Geschichte einer Stadt im Rahmen des Imperium Romanum''. Greven, Köln 2004, (''Geschichte der Stadt Köln'', Band 1). * ''Rom und Judaea. Fünf Vorträge zur römischen Herrschaft in Palästina.'' Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2007, (''Tria Corda'', Band 2).

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