Brian Mcging
Professor
Greek papyrology
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Most of my teaching is in Greek and Roman history, particularly the Greek Archaic Age, the Hellenistic period and the early Roman empire. For final year students I often offer Jewish or Egyptian topics. In Greek and Latin I have taught Homer, Herodotus and Polybius, Livy, Sallust and Tacitus, as well as basic language courses.
Research Interest
I am primarily a Greek papyrologist and historian of the Hellenistic period. My research spans a fault line between east and west that runs from Asia Minor down the east coast of the Mediterranean and on into Egypt. Major interests include the Hellenistic kingdoms of Asia Minor, particularly Pontus; Jewish history; the history of Egypt after Alexander the Great; Greek papyrology; Polybius of Megalopolis; Appian of Alexandia. I have been closely associated with our Centre for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, which has been in receipt of Irish government funding.
Publications
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B. C. McGing, The Foreign Policy of Mithridates VI Eupator King of Pontus (Leiden 1986) viii + pp. 204.
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B. C. McGing, Melitian monks at Labla, Tyche 5 (1990) 67-94.
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B. C. McGing, Greek Papyri from Dublin (Bonn 1995) xxviii + pp. 203.
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B. C. McGing, Revolt Egyptian Style: Internal opposition to Ptolemaic rule, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und Verwandte Gebiete 43 (1997) 273-314.
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B. C. McGing, Population and Proselytism. How many Jews were there in the ancient world? in, John R. Barlett (ed.), Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities (London 2002) 88-106.
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B. C. McGing (ed. with Judith Mossman), The Limits of Ancient Biography (Classical Press of Wales 2006) xix + pp. 447.
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B. C. McGing, Polybius Histories (Oxford 2010) xvi + pp. 270.
