Arthur Peter Keaveney (8 July 1951 – 23 June 2020)[1] was an Irish historian.
In 1975 he moved to Hull University to work on PhD on Lucius Cornelius Sulla, which was later expanded and published as a book.
From 1979 to 2014, he was a lecturer and reader in ancient history at the University of Kent, specialising in Republican Rome and Achaemenid Persia.
According to Herbert Heftner, his second edition of a biography of Sulla, published in 2005, is one of the works "to which we owe significant advances in knowledge of Roman history around the turn of the 2nd to the 1st century BC.
He remained an emeritus reader at the University of Kent after retirement and continued his research, which included Achaemenid Persia and the miracles of Thomas Becket as depicted in the Canterbury Cathedral windows.