My brother Stephen Mitchell, who has died aged 75, was a historian, archaeological surveyor and interpreter of inscriptions of the Hellenistic, Roman and early Byzantine periods, particularly in what is now Turkey. Equally at home on a hillside as in a lecture theatre, he once discovered three lost cities of the Pisidian people, high in Anatolia’s Taurus mountains, in a single fortnight.
Stephen joined the department of classics at Swansea University in 1976, gaining a professorship in 1993; he held visiting fellowships at the University of Göttingen in Germany and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in the US. From 2002 to 2011 he was Leverhulme professor of Hellenistic culture at Exeter University, becoming emeritus professor on retirement.
