Dominic Rathbone

Dr. Dominic Rathbone is a Reader in Ancient History and a Leverhulme Research Professor in the Department of Classics at King's College London, where he has been teaching Greek and Roman history since 1995. As an undergraduate, he studied Classics at Jesus College, Cambridge, and he remained in Cambridge for his doctoral degree.  His doctoral research concerned the Heroninos archive, a massive assemblage of texts from a large agricultural estate in the Roman Fayum. His thesis was published as Economic Rationalism and Rural Society in Third Century AD Egypt (CUP 1991). He has also published extensively on the history and archeology of Roman Italy and the Roman Empire, especially its agrarian and economic aspects. He has continued to research the history and archeology of Roman Egypt and knows Tebtunis well from the field survey that he directed in that region of the Fayum in 1995-98.