Arthur Keaveney | |
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| Born | (1951-07-08)8 July 1951 |
| Died | 23 June 2020(2020-06-23) (aged 68) Ireland |
Arthur Peter Keaveney (8 July 1951 – 23 June 2020)[1] was an Irish historian.
Keaveney was born inGalway and was educated there (St Joseph's Patrician College andUniversity College Galway). In 1975 he moved toHull University to work on PhD onLucius Cornelius Sulla, which was later expanded and published as a book.[2]
Keaveney was a Doctoral fellow atUniversity of Wales, Aberystwyth, from 1978 to 1979. From 1979 to 2014, he was a lecturer and reader in ancient history at theUniversity of Kent, specialising in Republican Rome and Achaemenid Persia. According to Herbert Heftner, his second edition of a biography ofSulla, 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] HisLucullus biography has been translated intoPolish.
In 2013, Keaveney was an honorary president of the Classical Association of Ireland. He remained an emeritus reader at the University of Kent after retirement and continued his research, which included Achaemenid Persia and the miracles ofThomas Becket as depicted in theCanterbury Cathedral windows. He was working on a monograph on the Persian court at the time of his death.
Keaveney died fromCOVID-19 during theCOVID-19 pandemic in England, on 23 June 2020.[2]
