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Tim Whitmarsh

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Tim Whitmarsh is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, working on all areas of Greek literature and culture with a particular emphasis on Greeks under the Roman Empire and religion and atheism in the ancient world. He is the author of Battling the Gods, which was shortlisted from the Runciman Award, the London Hellenic Prize and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize and has been translated into Dutch, Greek and Chinese.

Books by Tim Whitmarsh

Rome's Age of Revolution

The compelling, provocative account of how the Christian religion conquered the Roman Empire and how Rome in turn shaped Christianity: it’s the story of how religion and politics combined to lay the foundations for the Western world.

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