Politics and Philosophy at Rome Collected Papers

by Griffin, Miriam T.; Balmaceda, Catalina

• ISBN13: 9780198793120
• ISBN10: 019879312X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-12-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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Unpublished Lectures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