name: Michael    Grant
birth_date: 1914-11-21 00:00:00
death_date: 2004-10-04 00:00:00
genres: Nonfiction, History
avg_rating: 3.98
ratings_count: 38724
about: Michael Grant was an English classisist, numismatist, and author of numerous popular books on ancient history. His 1956 translation of Tacitus’s Annals of Imperial Rome remains a standard of the work. He once described himself as "one of the very few freelances in the field of ancient history: a rare phenomenon". As a popularizer, his hallmarks were his prolific output and his unwillingness to oversimplify or talk down to his readership.Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. Michael Grant was an English classisist, numismatist, and author of numerous popular books on ancient history. His 1956 translation of Tacitus’s Annals of Imperial Rome remains a standard of the work. He once described himself as "one of the very few freelances in the field of ancient history: a rare phenomenon". As a popularizer, his hallmarks were his prolific output and his unwillingness to oversimplify or talk down to his readership.Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. ...more