Peter Garnsey
Peter David Arthur Garnsey, (born 22 October 1938) is a retired
classicist and academic. Born in Australia, where he studied classics at the University of Sydney as a member of St Paul’s College, he has spent most of his career at Cambridge. He was a
fellow of
Jesus College, Cambridge from 1974 to 2006, and a professor of the history of
classical antiquity at the
University of Cambridge from 1997 to 2006. His area of research concerns the history of
political theory,
intellectual history, social and economic history, food, famine and nutrition, and
physical anthropology.
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