Arthur Keaveney

Arthur Peter Keaveney (8 July 1951 – 23 June 2020)[1] was an Irish historian.

Arthur Keaveney
Born(1951-07-08)8 July 1951
Galway, Ireland
Died23 June 2020(2020-06-23) (aged 68)

Biography

Keaveney was born in Galway and was educated there (St Joseph's Patrician College and University College Galway). In 1975 he moved to Hull University to work on PhD on Lucius Cornelius Sulla, which was later expanded and published as a book.[2]

In 1979—2014 Keaveney was a lecturer in ancient history at the University of Kent. According to Herbert Heftner, his second edition of a biography of Sulla, published in 2005, is one of the works "to which we owe significant advances in knowledge of Roman history around the turn of the 2nd to the 1st century BC."[3] His Lucullus biography has been translated into Polish.

In 2013 Keaveney was an honorary president of the Classical Association of Ireland. After retiring from the university he focused on Ancient Persian history and started to write a book on this subject. He died from COVID-19 in 2020.[2]

Selected bibliography
  • Sulla. The Last Republican. London 1982.
  • Rome and Unification of Italy. London 1987.
  • Lucullus. A Life. London 1992.
  • The army in the Roman revolution. London 2007.

References
  1. "In memoriam: Arthur Keaveney – School of European Culture & Languages".
  2. Arthur Keaveney obituary
  3. Herbert Heftner: Von den Gracchen bis Sulla. Die römische Republik am Scheideweg 133-78 v. Chr. Regensburg 2006. S. 9.
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