Brian C. McGing is a

papyrologist Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations ...

and

ancient historian Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline. By extension, the term "historiography" is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific to ...

, who specialises in the

Hellenistic period In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Greek history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the R ...

. He is Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin. He is editor of the college's journal of the classical world, '' Hermathena''.''Hermathena'' - A Trinity College Dublin Review.
Trinity College, Dublin. Retrieved 26 July 2016. In 2004, McGing was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA).

Selected publications

*''Polybius' Histories''.

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books ...

, Oxford, 2010. *''The limits of ancient biography''. Classical Press of Wales, 2006. (ed. with Judith Mossman) *"Population and proselytism. How many Jews were there in the ancient world?" in John R. Barlett (ed.), ''Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman cities''. London, 2002. pp. 88–106. *"Revolt Egyptian style: Internal opposition to Ptolemaic rule", ''Archiv für Papyrusforschung und Verwandte Gebiete'', 43 (1997), pp. 273–314. *''Greek papyri from Dublin''. Bonn, 1995. *"Appian's Mithridateios", ''Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt II'', 34.1, Bonn, 1993. pp. 496–522. *"Melitian monks at Labla", ''Tyche'' 5 (1990), pp. 67–94. *''The foreign policy of Mithridates VI Eupator King of Pontus''. Leiden, 1986.

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