Charles Freeman (historian)

Charles Freeman
Born
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of East Anglia
OccupationHistorian
Parents
  • John Freeman (father)
  • Winefride Freeman (mother)

Charles P. Freeman (born 1947) is an English author specialising in popular histories of ancient Greece and Rome. He has written numerous books on the ancient world including The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.