Why Rome Fell. Michael Arnheim

      Dr Michael Arnheim (commonly known as “Doctor Mike”) is a practicing London Barrister, Sometime Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge, and author of 23 published books to date, this being the twenty-third.

      Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, to a German father and South African mother, he attended the prestigious King Edward VII School. As a 14-year-old schoolboy he was picked to join the “Quiz Kids” team of five capped and gowned teenagers appearing every Friday evening on South Africa’s Springbok Radio, of which he became a stalwart member, “retiring” at the age of eighteen.

      He entered Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand at the age of 16, taking a first-class B.A. in History and Classics at the age of 19, first-class Honours in Classics at 20 and an M.A. with distinction at the age of 21.

Michael Arnheim then went up to St. John’s College, Cambridge, on a National Scholarship (later converted to a St. John’s College scholarship, supplemented by a Strathcona Travel Exhibition). He was awarded a Cambridge Ph.D. in 1969 in record time, and in 1972, his doctoral dissertation was published by the Oxford University Press under the title of The Senatorial Aristocracy in the Later Roman Empire. In the meantime, he was elected into a Fellowship of St. John’s College,

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