Robert Knapp (classicist)
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Robert C. Knapp (February 12, 1946–September 17, 2023)[1] was an author, historian, and professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Raised in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, Knapp earned his B.A degree from Central Michigan University in 1968, majoring in history and Spanish. In 1973 he completed his PhD in ancient history at the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation, under Robert E. A. Palmer, was on the Roman experience in the Spanish peninsula, 218-100 B.C.[2]