Henry Charles Boren died in Pittsboro, NC, on October 17, 2013, at the age of 92. He was professor of Ancient history at the University of North Carolina from 1960 to 1991 where he also served as secretary of the Faculty for 15 years. After his early career as a journalist was cut short by World War II, he led the first platoon to enter Germany under Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army. Desperately wounded in 1944, he received a bronze star for his courage under fire. After graduating from Southwest Missouri State (now Missouri State) he received his doctorate from the University of Illinois in 1952. He taught at his alma mater, then the University of Nebraska, and Southern Illinois, before coming to Chapel Hill. Among his books are The Roman Republic (1965), The Gracchi (1968), and Roman Society (1977).
