Richard Miles (historian)

Dr Richard Miles in Trier, Germany (2012)

Richard Miles (born 1969)^[1] is a British historian and archaeologist, best known for presenting two major historical documentary series: BBC2's Ancient Worlds (2010),^[2] which presented a comprehensive overview of classical history and the dawn of civilization, and BBC Four's Archaeology: a Secret History (2013).^[3]

Miles studied ancient history and archaeology at the University of Liverpool and sat for a PhD in classics at the University of Cambridge. He is an associate professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney.^[4][5] His research primarily concerns Punic and Late Roman history and archaeology.

He has directed archaeological digs in Carthage and Rome, and in 2010 he published Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Mediterranean Civilisation.^[5] He also hosted the two part series "Carthage: The Roman Holocaust", which focuses upon the war between Carthage and Rome.^[6]

Works

• Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity (Routledge, 1999) ISBN 978-0-415-19406-8
• Carthage Must Be Destroyed (Allen Lane, 2010) ISBN 978-0-7139-9793-4; Paperback (Penguin, 2011) ISBN 978-0-14-101809-6^[7]
• The Vandals (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). ISBN 978-1-4051-6068-1
• Ancient Worlds: The Search for the Origins of Western Civilization (Allen Lane, 2010) ISBN 978-0-7139-9794-1

References

1. My bright idea: Civilisation is still worth striving for, The Guardian, Sunday 17 October 2010
2. The Observer, 17 October 2010
3. BBC Four - Archaeology: A Secret History. Accessed 30 April 2013
4. "Associate Professor Richard Miles". Sydney.edu.au. University of Sydney. Retrieved 2014-08-06.
5. Sydney Ideas talk - Carthage: City of Memories
6. Kelly, Lucia. "Carthage: The Roman Holocaust". http://www.smh.com.au/. The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
7. Alston, Richard. Carthage Must Be Destroyed (Book review), BBC History magazine, March 2010