Grant Parker facts for kids
Grant Parker, born on March 16, 1967, is a smart professor who teaches about ancient Greece and Rome at Stanford University in the United States. He was born in South Africa. Professor Parker loves to study old Latin books, how ancient Romans saw places like Egypt and India, and how classical ideas are used in South Africa today.
About Grant Parker
Grant Parker grew up in South Africa. He went to the University of Cape Town for his first degrees in English and Latin. Later, he studied at Princeton University in the U.S., where he earned his PhD in Classical Philology. This means he became an expert in ancient languages and texts.
After finishing his studies, he worked as a professor at the University of Michigan. In 2001, he moved to Duke University to teach Latin. In 2003, he was recognized as an important new scholar. Then, in 2006, he joined Stanford University, becoming an associate professor of classics in 2009. He also still works with Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
Professor Parker has written many books and articles. He has written two main academic books by himself and helped edit two other books. He has also written over twenty articles for academic journals and encyclopedias. He even helps with the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, which is a huge dictionary of the Latin language.
Grant Parker's Books
Professor Parker's first book, The Agony of Asar, was a translation and explanation of a very old text. This text was written in the 1700s by a former slave named Jacobus Capitein. It was a defense of slavery at that time.
His second book, The Making of Roman India, looked at how people in the Roman Empire thought about India. This book was published in 2006.
He also helped edit other books. One was called Ancient India in its Wider World, which was also about Rome and India. Another book he co-edited was Mediterranean Passages. This book collected writings from ancient times to today that talk about the Mediterranean Sea as a place where different cultures met.
Here are some of the books he has written or helped to edit:
- The Agony of Asar: a thesis on slavery by the former slave, Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein, 1717-1747. Translated with introduction and commentary. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2001 ISBN: 9781558761261
- The Making of Roman India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0521858342
- Ancient India in its Wider World. Ann Arbor: Center for South and South East Asian Studies, University of Michigan, 2008 (co-editor with Carla Sinopoli) ISBN: 978-0-89148-092-1
- Mediterranean Passages: readings from Dido to Derrida. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008 (co-editor with Miriam Cooke and Erdağ Göknar) ISBN: 978-0807858714
- South Africa, Greece, Rome: Classical Confrontations. Cambridge University Press, 2017 (editor)
