hideThis article has multiple issues. Please help or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
This biography of a living personneeds additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. Find sources: – ···scholar·JSTOR(March 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for academics. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: – ···scholar·JSTOR(March 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
This biographical article is written like a résumé. Please by revising it to be neutral and encyclopedic.(March 2017)
(Learn how and when to remove this template message)
Victoria College, Toronto, B.A., 1952; Yale University, M.A., 1953, Ph.D., 1957; also attended American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece, 1954-55.
Occupation
historian and academic eremitus
Notable work
Economic History of an Egyptian Temple in Greco-Roman Egypt, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1961.
Procopius, Twayne (Boston, MA), 1972.
Polis and Imperium: Studies in Honour of Edward Togo Salmon, Hakkert (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1974.
Herodotus, Twayne (Boston, MA), 1982.
Herodotus, Explorer of the Past: Three Essays, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1991.
The Age of Justinian: The Circumstances of Imperial Power, Routledge (New York, NY), 1996.
The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian, University of Texas Press (Austin, TX), 2002.
The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 2005.
Daily Life in the Hellenistic Age: From Alexander to Cleopatra, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 2008.
Spouse(s)
Eleanor Lynn Ward, June 16, 1964;
Children
James Arthur Laird, Cecily Eleanor, Andrew Lindsay.
Parents
David Arthur a farmer (father)
Isabella Jane Evans (mother)
James Allan Stewart Evans is a Canadian historian and professor emeritus of classical Near Eastern and religious studies.