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.[ Garnsey – Prof Peter D A, PhD, FBA , Jesus College, University of Cambridge. Retrieved 13 May 2012. Archived here.] 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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Social Status and Legal Privilege in the Roman Empire (1970). Oxford University Press.
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The Roman Empire: Society, Economy and Culture (1987) London 1987. Co-author.
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Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World (1988). Cambridge University Press.
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Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine (1996). Cambridge University Press.
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Cities, Peasants and Food (1998). Cambridge University Press.
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Food and Society in Classical Antiquity (1999). Cambridge University Press.
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Evolution of the late Antique World (2001). Cambridge University Press. Co-author.
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Lactantius, Divine Institutes. Introd/Transl./Notes (2003). Liverpool University Press. Co-author.
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Thinking about Property, antiquity to the age of revolution (2007). Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge Ancient History vols. XI (2000), XII (2005), XIII(1998). Co-editor
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