Samuel Dill

Born on March 26, 1844, Samuel Dill was an Irish-born classical scholar, historian, and educationalist. He studied at Geneva Theological College and at Queen's College, Belfast, where he took his arts degree in 1864.

Dill became known for writing accessible, influential books on Roman culture and religion. His best-known works include Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius, Roman Society in the Last Century of the Western Empire, and Roman Society in Gaul in the Merovingian Age. His writing focused less on battles and emperors alone and more on the texture of social and religious life across the Roman world.

He was knighted in 1909 and is remembered as both a serious scholar and an engaging interpreter of antiquity. Dill died on May 26, 1924.