Michael Grant (classicist)

Michael Grant CBE
Born	21 November 1914 London, England
Died	4 October 2004(2004-10-04) (aged 89) Tuscany, Italy
Nationality	English
Academic background
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
Academic work
Discipline	Classics
Sub-discipline	Ancient Rome numismatics Roman coinage early Christianity
Institutions	University of Edinburgh University of Khartoum Queen's University Belfast

Michael Grant (21 November 1914 – 4 October 2004) was an English classicist, a numismatist, and author of numerous books on ancient history.^[1] His 1956 translation of Tacitus's Annals of Imperial Rome remains a standard of the work. Having studied and held a number of academic posts in the United Kingdom and the Middle East, he retired early to write full-time. He once described himself as "one of the very few freelancers in the field of ancient history: a rare phenomenon". As a populariser, his hallmarks were his prolific output and his unwillingness to oversimplify or talk down to his readership. He published over 70 works.