Tim Cornell

Timothy J. Cornell(born 1946) is a British historian specializing inancient Rome.He is an Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at theUniversity of Manchester,having retired from his teaching position in 2011.

Cornell received his bachelor's degree in Ancient History with first class honours fromUniversity College London(1968) and his PhD in history from theUniversity of London(1972). He was a student ofArnaldo Momiglianoand wrote his dissertation "Cato'sOriginesand the non-Roman historical tradition of ancient Italy ". He was a fellow atChrist's College,Cambridge(1973–75), assistant director ofThe British School at Rome(1975–77), lecturer and senior lecturer in Ancient History at University College London (1978–88, 1988–95).

Between 1995 and 2011 he was a professor of Ancient History at theUniversity of Manchester,apart from a brief period as Director of theInstitute of Classical Studiesat theSchool of Advanced Study,University of London (2004-2006). Following his retirement in 2011, Cornell was made Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at theUniversity of Manchester.In June 2018 he was elected President of theSociety for the Promotion of Roman Studies.

Selected works

• 'Aeneas and the Twins: the development of the Roman foundation legend' inProceedings of the Cambridge Philological Societyn.s. 21 (1975), 1-32
• 'Rome and Latium Vetus, 1974-79',Archaeological Reports26 (1980), pp. 71–89
• (WithJ.F. Matthews)Atlas of the Roman World(Oxford: Phaidon; New York: Facts on File, 1982)
• 'Rome and Latium Vetus, 1980-85', inArchaeological Reports32 (1986), pp. 123–33
• 'Rome and Latium to 390 BC', inThe Cambridge Ancient History,2nd ed., vol. VII.2 (Cambridge: CUP 1989), ch. 6, pp. 243–308; 'The Recovery of Rome', ibid., ch. 7, pp. 309–350; 'The Conquest of Italy', ibid. ch. 8, pp. 351–419
• Translator and Joint editor (withG.W. Bowersock):Studies on Modern Scholarship,by A. Momigliano (Berkeley, 1994).
• The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars, c. 1000 - 264 BC(London: Routledge, 1995).
• Editor (with Boris Rankov and Philip Sabin):The Second Punic War: A Reappraisal(London: Institute of Classical Studies, 1996)
• General Editor:The Fragments of the Roman Historians,vols. I-III (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)

External links

• Cornell's website