Edward Togo Salmon
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Edward Togo Salmon (born 1905, London, England; died 1988) was a prominent ancient historian of the twentieth century.
Salmon was first educated in Sydney, Australia, where he completed university with a degrees in Classics and English. He would go on to receive his doctorate at Cambridge. Salmon, who was named after the Admiral Togo who sank the Russian Fleet in 1905, is best known for his academic career at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where he taught for 43 years beginning in 1930. He held the posts of Chair of the Department of History and Messecar Professor of History at McMaster, as well as the first Principal of University College and Academic Vice-President.
He is perhaps best known for his work on the Samnites and the Romanization of Italy.
[edit] Selected Bibliography
- A history of the Roman world from 30 B.C. to A.D. 138 (1944; rev. ed 1963, 1968)
- Samnium and the Samnites (1967)
- Roman colonization under the Republic (1970)
- Polis and imperium : studies in honour of Edward Togo Salmon (1974)
- The nemesis of empire (1974)
- The making of Roman Italy (1982)
