Miriam T. Griffin, EmeritusTutorial Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford
Miriam T. Griffin was born in New York and studied at Barnard College and Radcliffe before receiving a Fulbright Scholarship to Oxford, where she completed her DPhil under the supervision of Sir Ronald Syme. She was initially the Fulford Research Fellow at St. Anne's College, later being appointed to a tutorial fellowship in Ancient History at Somerville College and a CUF Lectureship in the University, as well as holding a post as Langford Eminent scholar at Florida State University in 2008. She was the editor of The Classical Quarterly from 2002 until 2007 and is a long-standing editor of the Clarendon Ancient History Series for Oxford University Press.
Catalina Balmaceda is Associate Professor in Classics at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.
Frontmatter List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations PART I: ROMAN HISTORY Republican History 1. Cicero and Rome 2. The 'Leges Iudiciariae' of the Pre-Sullan Era 3. The Tribune C. Cornelius 4. Introduction to A Companion to Julius Caesar Imperial History 5. Urbs Roma, Plebs and Princeps 6. The Elder Seneca and Spain 7. Nero's Recall of Suetonius Paullinus 8. Claudius in the Judgement of the Next Half-Century 9. Tacitus, Tiberius and the Principate 10. Nero and the Concept of Imperial Glory PART II: ROMAN HISTORIOGRAPHY Published Papers 11. Tacitus as a Historian 12. The Lyons Tablet and Tacitean Hindsight 13. Un Frammento del Libro XI di Tito Livio? 14. Claudius in Tacitus 15. The Senate's Story 16. Pliny and Tacitus 17. Iure Plectimur: The Roman Critique of Roman Imperialism Unpublished Lectures 18. Writing History: The Senate vs. Tacitus 19. Pliny s Letters: Between History and E-mail 20. Nero: From Zero to Hero 21. Tacitus and Nero 22. Tiberius on Family Relations Occasional Pieces 23. Obituary of Sir Ronald Syme, 1903-1989 24. Show Us You Care, Ma'am 25. 'Lifting the Mask': Syme on Fictional History PART III: PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS 26. Philosophy, Politics, and Politicians at Rome 27. De Brevitate Vitae 28. Seneca on Cato's Politics: Epistle 14.12 13 29. Imago Vitae Suae 30. Philosophy, Cato, and Roman Suicide: I and II 31. Philosophy for Statesmen: Cicero and Seneca 32. The Intellectual Developments of the Ciceronian Age 33. Philosophical Badinage in Cicero's Letters to his Friends 34. Cynicism and the Romans: Attraction and Repulsion 35. When is Thought Political? 36. From Aristotle to Atticus: Cicero and Matius on Friendship 37. The Composition of the Academica: Motives and Versions 38. Seneca and Pliny 39. Piso, Cicero and their Audience 40. Political Thought in the Age of Nero 41. Clementia after Caesar: From Politics to Philosophy 42. De Beneficiis and Roman Society 43. The Younger Pliny's Debt to Moral Philosophy 44. Seneca's Pedagogic Strategy: Letters and De Beneficiis 45. The Elder Pliny on Philosophers 46. The Politics of Virtue: Three Puzzles in Cicero's De Officiis 47. Symptoms and Sympathy in Latin Letter-writing 48. Latin Philosophy and Roman Law 49. The Prince and his Tutor: Candour and Affection 50. Dignity in Roman and Stoic Thought Endmatter Bibliography Index
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