Professor Martin Millett
BA(London), MA(Cantab), DPhil(Oxon), PhD FBA FSA
Fellow
Subject: Classical Archaeology
Department: Classics
Email: mjm62@cam.ac.uk
Phone: 136-2217
Profile
I am an archaeologist who developed interests in the Classical World and thence moved into Classics. My research is concerned with understanding how the lives of different indigenous peoples were altered through their encounters with the Roman Empire, and how their cultures in turn altered the nature of the Roman world itself. I currently undertake fieldwork in two contrasting regions. In the first, near the margins of the Roman Empire we have been undertaking a long-term study of rural settlement and economy, focusing in particular on patterns of local variation. In the other, at the centre of the Empire, I am a member of two research groups, one investigating the archaeology of Portus - the principal port of imperial Rome, the other looking at early Roman colonization in southern Lazio.