George Willis Botsford

George Willis Botsford (1862–1917) was an American historian of the ancient world. Born in Nebraska, he studied at Nebraska, Johns Hopkins and Cornell, taught at Kalamazoo College and Harvard, and from 1902 was professor of history at Columbia University. His doctoral work became The Development of the Athenian Constitution, and he went on to write a series of widely used textbooks, including A History of Greece, A History of Rome and An Ancient History for Beginners, as well as his most substantial scholarly book, The Roman Assemblies from Their Origin to the End of the Republic. He also edited a source book in ancient history with his wife.