Richard Miles (born 1969)My bright idea: Civilisation is still worth striving for, The Guardian, Sunday 17 October 2010 is a British historian and archaeologist, best known for presenting two major historical documentary series: BBC2's Ancient Worlds (2010),The Observer, 17 October 2010 which presented a comprehensive overview of classical history and the dawn of civilisation, and BBC Four's Archaeology: A Secret History (2013).BBC Four - Archaeology: A Secret History. Accessed 30 April 2013
Biography Miles was born in Pembury, Kent. He studied ancient history and archaeology at the University of Liverpool and undertook a PhD in classics under Professor Peter Garnsey at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is Professor of Roman History and Archaeology and pro-vice-chancellor of enterprise and engagement at the University of Sydney. He was formerly head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, and is a former director of the Arts Career Ready Programme at Sydney. 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. He also hosted the two-part Channel 4 series Carthage: The Roman Holocaust (2004), which focuses upon the war between Carthage and Rome.
Works (editor) Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity (Routledge, 1999) Carthage Must Be Destroyed (Allen Lane, 2010) ; Paperback (Penguin, 2011) Alston, Richard. Carthage Must Be Destroyed (Book review), BBC History magazine, March 2010 The Vandals (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). Ancient Worlds: The Search for the Origins of Western Civilization (Allen Lane, 2010) (editor) The Donatist Schism: Controversy and Contexts (Liverpool University Press, 2016)
References
External links Richard Miles faculty homepage Why the idea of Carthage survived Roman conquest