James Allan Evans

Allan Evans is one of Canada's leading historian-philologists of the Greco-Roman world. His publications range from palaeography and late Classical literature to the history of Ptolemaic Egypt, Classical Greece, Pre-History, Archaeology and Historiography, and comprise four major books, over fifty articles in international journals, some seventy reviews and scores of articles of a more general nature. His work on the historians Procopius and Herodotus in particular has established him as a leading international scholar in either field. An outstanding teacher and administrator, he has contributed both locally and nationally to the support of Classical studies in Canada.