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Edward Jay Watts (born 1975) is a Roman and Byzantine historian born in Princeton, New Jersey and the inaugural holder of the Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Endowed Chair in Byzantine History[1] in the Department of History<refhttps://history.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/watts.html</ref> at the University of California, San Diego.[2]
Books:
[edit]- City and school in late antique Athens and Alexandria. Berkeley 2006, ISBN 0-520-24421-4.
- Riot in Alexandria. Tradition and group dynamics in late antique pagan and Christian communities. Berkeley 2010, ISBN 978-0-520-26207-2.
- The Final Pagan Generation. Oakland 2015, ISBN 0-520-28370-8.
- Hypatia. The life and legend of an ancient philosopher. New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-19-021003-8.
- Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny. New York 2018, ISBN 9781541646483
- The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea, New York 2021, ISBN 9780190076719
Public Impact:
[edit]His early work, which focused on the cultural and religious changes affecting philosophy and educational life as the Roman Empire embraced Christianity, included City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria, which won the CAMWS Outstanding Publication award.[3]
His later works have described social and political change in the Roman world in a fashion that prompted popular reflections about 21st century society. The Final Pagan Generation, which offers a generational history of the men born in the 310s that traces the experience of living through the Christianization of the Roman Empire, sparked a series of conversations among conservative thinkers and other intellectuals about similar, dramatic shifts quietly taking place in twenty-first century life.[4][5]
His books focused on political change in the Roman and Byzantine worlds, The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome and Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny prompted economists[6][7] as well as cultural[8][9] and political commentators in the United States[10][11] and around the world,[12][13] to consider the relevance of the legacies of the Roman world to modern representative democracies and culture. He is also the creator of the YouTube channel Rome's Eternal Decline.
References
[edit]- ^ "Endowed Chair list, UCSD School of Arts and Humanities".
- ^ "UCSD Center for Hellenic Studies".
- ^ "CAMWS Outstanding Publication award winners". 10 June 2014.
- ^ Dreher, Rod (July 9, 2018). "American Conservative".
- ^ Rollman, Rhea (December 7, 2020). "Pop Matters".
- ^ Lipsky, Joshua (March 2019). "Ancient Rome offers lessons on the importance of sustainable development". International Monetary Fund Finance and Development Magazine.
- ^ "Risks And Rewards: From Rome To Manhattan". Global Finance Magazine. March 8, 2019.
- ^ "The Approval Matrix: Week of January 7, 2019". New York Magazine. January 7, 2019.
- ^ Cooper, Michael (January 31, 2020). "In the Met Opera's 'Agrippina,' the Roman Empire Never Ended A contemporary-dress Handel production calls to mind "House of Cards," "Succession" and your choice of rulers in the age of Trump".
- ^ Sullivan, Andrew (August 7, 2019). "Is There Hope for the American Republic After Trump?". New York Magazine.
- ^ Mounk, Yascha (December 24, 2018). "What the Fall of the Roman Republic and Teach US About America". New York Times.
- ^ Lissardy, Gerardo (November 18, 2020). ""Es un momento alarmante": el experto que compara la situación de EE.UU. con la crisis y caída de la República romana". BBC Mundo.
- ^ Ruiz, Fatima (March 25, 2023). "Estados Unidos: manual de instrucciones para perder un imperio El historiador Edward J. Watts traza el mapa de la decadencia de Roma como GPS para los EEUU del siglo XXI". El Mundo.