Duane W. Roller

Roller received his Bachelor of Arts degree in letters from the University of Oklahoma in 1966.^[1][3] In 1968, he received his Master of Arts in Latin from the same institution.^[1][3] He obtained his PhD in classical archaeology from Harvard University in 1971.^[1][3]

Roller is a professor emeritusofclassics at the Ohio State University,^[1][2] retiring in 2007 but continuing lectures throughout the U.S.^[3] In 2008, he was granted a position as a Karl-Franzens Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of GrazinGraz, Austria.^[3] He has led or participated in various archaeological excavations. These include Greco-Roman sites located in Greece, Italy, Turkey, Israel, Jordan, and northwestern Africa.^[3]

Roller is the author of various works, ranging from over two-hundred scholarly journal articles and twelve published books.^[3] These works include The Building Program of Herod the Great (1998), focused on Herod the Great of the Herodian kingdomofJudaea,^[4] and Cleopatra: a Biography (2010), recounting the early life, reign, and deathofCleopatra VIIofPtolemaic Egypt.^[2][5] His book Tanagran Studies (1989) focuses on the ancient city of Tanagra.^[4] He has also published material on the history of geography with his book Ancient Geography (2015).^[3]

Roller has been the recipient of numerous rewards for academic work.^[3] These include four Fulbright Awards for his teaching roles in India, Poland, Malta, and Austria.^[3] He has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Geographic Society.^[3]

Roller lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.^[1]

• List of Harvard University people
• List of Ohio State University people

• The Building Program of Herod the Great, California University Press, 1998.
• The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene: Royal Scholarship on Rome's African Frontier, Routledge, 2003.
• Through the Pillars of Herakles: Greco-Roman Exploration of the Atlantic, Routledge, 2006.
• Cleopatra: A Biography, Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Ancient Geography: The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome, I.B.Tauris, 2015.
• A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• Cleopatra's Daughter: And Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era, Oxford University Press, 2018.
• Empire of the Black Sea: The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World, Oxford University Press, 2020.

• King, Carol J. "Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller (review)." Project MUSE (Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada, Volume 11, Number 3, 2011, LV—Series III, pp. 395–398).