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Politics and Philosophy at Rome: Collected Papers

Autor Miriam T. Griffin Editat de Catalina Balmaceda
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 oct 2018
This volume presents the collected papers of Miriam T. Griffin, an eminent scholar of Roman history and ancient thought whose work has played a central role in forging links between scholarship on the history of the Graeco-Roman world and its philosophies. Spanning a period of over forty years and a distinguished career as Fellow of Somerville College at Oxford, these papers include both published works, many of them now difficult to find in their original printings, and previously unpublished lectures. The collection covers a range of topics in Roman Republican and Imperial history, Roman historiography, and the interplay of Latin philosophy and Roman politics, as well as featuring a host of key Latin authors, most notably Cicero, Seneca, and Tacitus. The last of these categories, the interplay of philosophy and politics in Rome, is also the most prominent in the volume: though deeply interested in ancient philosophy, and especially Stoicism, Miriam Griffin writes primarily as a historian concerned with how Roman thinking was related to political circumstances and actions. Many of the essays have opened up new areas of discussion and formed the basis of later scholarship dealing with history and philosophy, and although some of them are quite general, serving as useful introductions to the subject area, others are more detailed and technical, inviting discussion and controversy. The style throughout is consistently dynamic and engaging, resulting in a fascinating and formidable collection from a scholar unrivalled as an expert in both the history of the Graeco-Roman world and its philosophies, and a true pioneer in the bridging of these two spheres.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198793120
ISBN-10: 019879312X
Pagini: 792
Ilustrații: 6 black-and-white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 180 x 254 x 50 mm
Greutate: 1.57 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

[a] meticulously edited and skillfully produced volume
The volume...serves as a testament to Griffin's enduring authority and inspiration as a scholar.
The book is thus a 'must-have' for specialists, who will easily locate key passages concerning key themes in Roman political thoughtspecialists will also find useful supplements to readings in source material for undergraduate and graduate students.
What is most striking reading through the collection as a whole is how accessible Griffin consistently is, even when discussing more technical matters, e.g. in 'Un Frammento del Libro XI di Tito Livio?' and 'The Composition of the Academica'. This makes the volume a valuable resource for a wide-ranging readership.
It is easy to give this a five-star rating as the work here is the result of many years of peer-reviewed polishing and the finished text is pretty well perfect in scope and in execution.

Notă biografică

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. In 2018, Dr Griffin was posthumously awarded a British Academy Medal for her lifetimes contribution to Roman history and ancient thought.Catalina Balmaceda completed her D.Phil at Brasenose College, Oxford, and is now Associate Professor of Ancient History at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She is the author of Virtus Romana: Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), Comprender el pasado: una historia de la escritura y el pensamiento histórico (with Jaume Aurell, Peter Burke, and Felipe Soza; Akal, 2013), Sallust: The War Against Jugurtha (with Michael Comber; Liverpool University Press, 2009), and several articles on Roman history and historiography.