| 1 | Name: | Professor Alan Cameron | |
| Institution: | Columbia University | ||
| Year Elected: | 1992 | ||
| Class: | 4. Humanities | ||
| Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Deceased | ||
| Birth Date: | 1938 | ||
| Death Date: | July 31, 2017 | ||
Alan Cameron was a British classicist and Charles Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Columbia University. He taught for nearly 30 years at Columbia, before which time he served for 13 years as lecturer and reader in Latin and professor of Latin Language and Literature at Kings' College London. Dr. Cameron's areas of expertise include Hellenistic and Roman poetry; later Roman literature; Byyzantium; and the transmission of texts. He was awarded the American Philological Association's Goodwin Award of Merit in classical scholarship in 1997 and was honored with the Lionel Trilling Book Award for an outstanding book by a Columbia faculty member for his work Greek Mythography in the Roman World (2004). The latter work traces the beginnings of different versions of myths, including those fabricated in ancient times, while exploring the ways in which ancient Romans learned the myths that pervaded their culture's art. Dr. Cameron's other important works include Porphyrius the Charioteer (1973); Blues and Greens at Rome and Byzantium (1976); and Literature and Society in the Early Byzantine World (1985). He was a member of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1992. Alan Cameron died July 31, 2017, at the age of 79, in New York. | |||