Autobiography A Scholars Life By T R S Broughton 19001993 T Corey Brennan by T. Corey Brennan, T. Alan Broughton, Ryan C. Fowler, Andrew G. Scott, Kathleen J. Shea 9781593338374, 1593338376 instant download after payment.

This special number of the American Journal of Ancient History is the result of a collective effort to produce a full edition of the unpublished Autobiography of Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton (1900-1993), one of the truly towering Romanists of the twentieth century. Written at his family’s prompting over several summers in the late 1980s, this immensely detailed work of 233 typewritten MS pages—the bulk of which is a rich travelogue—offers much especially on the topography, ecology and material remains of Rome’s provinces. The Autobiography also sheds remarkable light on Broughton’s formation as a scholar and person, and his experiences in the world of Canadian, American and international Classics over a period of some six decades; plus there is much here on his wife, Annie Leigh, an important figure in the history of Bryn Mawr College and Duke University. This number also includes, as an illustration of Broughton’s work, the text of an unpublished 1970 lecture he delivered at Bryn Mawr in tribute to Lily Ross Taylor, entitled “Roman Studies in the 20th Century”.

The basic facts of T.R.S. Broughton’s scholarly career—which lasted right up to his death at the age of 93—are enough to secure his status as one of the most important classicists that North America has yet produced. Broughton was born in tiny Corbetton, Ontario. Educated at Toronto, Chicago and Johns Hopkins, he was a longtime professor of Latin at Bryn Mawr College (1930-1965), and then Paddison Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1965-1970), remaining active in the intellectual life of that university for almost a quarter century past his retirement.