Tarn, William Woodthorpe

Tarn, William Woodthorpe

 

Born Feb. 26, 1869, in London; died Nov. 7, 1957, in Inverness. British historian of classical antiquity.

Tarn’s chief works are concerned with the history of the Hellenistic Age.

WORKS

Amigonos Gonatas. Oxford, 1913.
Alexander the Great, vols. 1–2, Cambridge, 1948.
Octavian, Antony and Cleopatra. London, 1965. (In collaboration with M. P. Charlesworth.)
The Greeks in Bactria and India. Cambridge, 1966.
In Russian translation:
Ellinisticheskaia tsivilizatsiia. Moscow, 1949.