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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 wr ...
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 a ...
of the Roman ruling class (magistrates, Senate) and the ancient city of
Cologne Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...
,
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 (132–136 AD) was a major uprising by the Jews of Judaea (Roman province), Judaea against the Roman Empire, marking the final and most devastating of the Jewish–Roman wars. Led by Simon bar Kokhba, the rebels succeeded ...
from the Roman point of view.Eck, Werner, "The Bar Kokhba Revolt: The Roman Point of View", JRS 89 (1999), pp. 76–89


Publications

German language publications: * ''Senatoren von Vespasian bis Hadrian. Prosopographische Untersuchungen mit Einschluss der Jahres- u. Provinzialfasten der Statthalter''. Beck, München 1970, ('' Vestigia'', 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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at academia.edu (last viewed 25 February 2018) 1939 births Living people German male non-fiction writers Historians of ancient Rome 20th-century German historians 21st-century German historians Academic staff of the University of Cologne Corresponding fellows of the British Academy Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany {{Germany-historian-stub