James Allan Stewart Evans

James Allan Stewart Evans
James Allan Stewart Evans
Born	March 24, 1931; Cambridge, Ontario
Other names	J.A.S. Evans
Alma mater	Victoria College, Toronto, B.A., 1952; Yale University, M.A., 1953, Ph.D., 1957; also attended American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece, 1954-55.
Occupation	historian and academic eremitus
Notable work	Economic History of an Egyptian Temple in Greco-Roman Egypt, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1961.; Procopius, Twayne (Boston, MA), 1972.; Polis and Imperium: Studies in Honour of Edward Togo Salmon, Hakkert (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1974.; Herodotus, Twayne (Boston, MA), 1982.; Herodotus, Explorer of the Past: Three Essays, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1991.; The Age of Justinian: The Circumstances of Imperial Power, Routledge (New York, NY), 1996.; The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian, University of Texas Press (Austin, TX), 2002.; The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 2005.; Daily Life in the Hellenistic Age: From Alexander to Cleopatra, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 2008.;
Spouse(s)	Eleanor Lynn Ward, June 16, 1964;
Children	James Arthur Laird, Cecily Eleanor, Andrew Lindsay.
Parents	David Arthur a farmer (father); Isabella Jane Evans (mother);

James Allan Stewart Evans is a Canadian historian and professor emeritus of classical Near Eastern and religious studies.

Biography

From 1955 to 1960 he was assistant professor of Classics at the University of Western Ontario and Waterloo College, London.
From 1960 to 1961 he was Visiting special lecturer in Classics at the University of Toronto.
From 1961 to 1962 he was assistant professor of classics at the University of Texas at Austin.
From 1962 to 1971 he was professor of history at the McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
From 1972 to 1973 he was professor of classics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and became professor emeritus.[1]

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