Dr. Anthony Barrett

Anthony Barrett is a classicist whose principal area of interest is the Julio-Claudian period (31 BC - AD 68). Using a cross-disciplinary methodology that combines history and archaeology (including numismatics and epigraphy), he has published two historical biographies of first importance and has recently completed a third. These books, as part of the Imperial Biographies Series (Yale University Press), treat Caligula, Agrippina, and Livia. Barrett has also written three other books, and over 50 articles on various topics in the fields of literature, history, archaeology, numismatics, epigraphy, architecture, and astronomy. Barrett has been a most productive scholar, showing great versatility in interests and approach and offering new and original material to both the scholarly specialist and the general reader.