Grant Parker (born 16 March 1967) is a South African-born associate professor of classics at Stanford University in the United States.
Parker's principal research interests are Imperial Latin Literature, the portrayal of Egypt and India in the Roman Empire and Classical Reception in South Africa.
[1] He also maintains an affiliation as an extraordinary professor at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
His first book, The Agony of Asar was a translation, introduction and commentary on an eighteenth-century defence of slavery written by a former slave, Jacobus Capitein.
[5] He is also the co-editor of a further volume on Rome and India, Ancient India in its Wider World,[6] and Mediterranean Passages: readings from Dido to Derrida, a reader of selected passages from antiquity to the modern world which concern the Mediterranean's role as a meeting point between culture.