Susan Treggiari

Susan Treggiari is an English scholar of Ancient Rome,^[1] emeritus professor of Stanford University and retired member of the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford.^[2] She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She is a former Guggenheim Fellow (1995–96), a Visiting Fellow of Brasenose College (1976–77) and All Souls College (1995–96), a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1995–) and an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall (2011–. She has been Joint Editor of Classical News and Views /Echos du monde classique, President of the Association of Ancient Historians and of the American Philological Association. Treggiari's specialist areas of study are the family and marriage in ancient Rome, Cicero and the late Roman Republic.

Works

Books

• Roman freedmen during the late Republic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969, re-issued, Oxford University Press, 2000)
• Cicero's Cilician Letters, translated with an introduction and notes (London Association of Classical Teachers Original Records no. 10, 1973, second edition 1997)
• Roman Marriage. Iusti coniuges from the time of Cicero to the time of Ulpian (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991, paperback edition 1993)
• Roman social history (London: Routledge, Classical Foundations, 2002)
• Terentia, Tullia and Publilia. The women of Cicero’s family (London: Routledge, Women of Antiquity, 2007)

Articles

Articles on Roman history in journals and books

• ‘Pompeius' freedman biographer again’, Classical Review 19 (1969) 264–266
• ‘The freedmen of Cicero’, Greece and Rome 16 (1969) 195–204
• ‘A new Collina’, Historia 19 (1970) 121–122
• ‘Libertine ladies’, Classical World 64 (1971) 196–198
• ‘Cicero, Horace and mutual friends: Lamiae and Varrones Murenae’, Phoenix 27 (1973) 245–261
• ‘Domestic staff at Rome in the Julio-Claudian period’, Social History/Histoire sociale 6 (1973) 241–255
• ‘Roman social history: recent interpretations’, Social History/Histoire sociale 8 (1975) 149–164
• ‘Jobs in the household of Livia’, Papers of the British School at Rome 43 (1975) 48–77
• ‘Family life among the staff of the Volusii’, Transactions of the American Philological Association 105 (1975) 393–401
• ‘Jobs for women’, American Journal of Ancient History 1 (1976) 76–104
• ‘Intellectuals, poets and their patrons in the first century B.C.’, Classical News and Views/Echos du monde classique 21 (1977) 24–29
• ‘The manumission of Tiro’, Liverpool Classical Monthly 2 (1977) 67–72
• ‘Lower-class women in the Roman economy’, Florilegium 1 (1979) 65–86
• ‘Questions on women domestics in the Roman West’, in Schiavitù, manomissione e classi dipendenti nel mondo antico (Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 1979) 185–201
• ‘Sentiment and property: some Roman attitudes’, A. Parel and T. Flanagan eds., Theories of property. Aristotle to the present (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 1979) 53–85
• ‘Urban labour in Rome: mercennarii and tabernarii’, Peter Garnsey ed., Non-slave labour in the Greco-Roman world (Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 1980) 48–64
• ‘Mihi aqua haeret (Cic. QF 2.6.2)’, Liverpool Classical Monthly 5 (1980) 187–188
• ‘M. Antonius Felix: not a freedman transformed?’, Liverpool Classical Monthly 6 (1981) 71–72
• ‘Contubernales in CIL vi’, Phoenix 35 (1981) 42–69
• (With Susan Dorken) ‘Women with two living husbands in CIL 6’, Liverpool Classical Monthly 6 (1981) 269–272
• ‘Concubinae’, Papers of the British School at Rome 49 (1981) 59–81
• ‘Consent to Roman marriage: who, why and how?’, Classical Views/Echos du monde classique 26 (n.s. 1) (1982) 34–44
• ‘Two Latin inscriptions’, Getty Museum Journal 10 (1982) 181–186
• ‘Women as property in the early Roman Empire’, in D.K. Weisberg, ed., Women and the law. A social and historical perspective (Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman, 1982) ii pp. 7–33
• ‘Digna condicio: betrothals in the Roman upper class’, Classical Views 28 (n.s. 3) (1984) 419–451
• ‘Iam proterva fronte: matrimonial advances by Roman women’, J.W. Eadie and J. Ober eds., The Craft of the ancient historian: Essays in honour of Chester G. Starr (Lanham: 1985) 331–352
• ‘Roman Marriage’, in Civilization of the ancient Mediterranean, ed. M. Grant and R. Kitzinger (New York, 1988) iii pp. 1343–1354
• ‘Divorce Roman style: how easy and how frequent was it?’, in Beryl Rawson ed., Marriage, divorce and children in Ancient Rome (Canberra & Oxford, 1991) 31–46
• ‘Ideals and practicalities in matchmaking’, in David I. Kertzer and Richard P. Saller eds., The Family in Italy from antiquity to the present (New Haven, 1991) 91–108
• ‘Conventions and conduct among upper-class Romans in the choice of a marriage-partner’, International Journal of Moral and Social Studies 6.3 (1991) 187–215
• ‘Law, morality and fashion in Roman private life’ in E. N. Genovese ed., The Burnett Lectures. A Quarter Century (San Diego: Department of Classics & Humanities, San Diego State University, 1993) 197–221
• ‘Leges sine moribus’, Ancient History Bulletin 8.3 (1994) 86–98
• ‘Putting the bride to bed’, Classical Views / Echos du monde classique 38 (n.s. 13) (1994) 311–331
• ‘Social status and social legislation’ in Cambridge Ancient History X (Cambridge, 1996) Part IV section 27 pp. 873–904. Reviewed in CJ 93 (1997) 93-9
• ‘Women in Roman society’ in Diana E. E. Kleiner and Susan B. Matheson eds., I Claudia. Women in ancient Rome (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1996) 116–125
• Articles for third edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary (1996): ‘Family, Roman’; revision of articles on ‘Adultery’, ‘Freedmen’, ‘Guardianship’, ‘Marriage, law of, Roman’, ‘patria potestas’; ‘adoptio’, ‘ius liberorum’, ‘manus’. ‘Adoption’, ‘Adultery’, ‘Family, Roman’ and ‘freedmen’ also appear in Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (1998)
• ‘Ehe’, ‘Dos’ in Der Neue Pauly. Reallexikon der Antike III 896-9 and 798-9 (Stuttgart: Metzler). Also in Brill’s New Pauly. Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World (Leiden, 2002–) vols. 4: 693–4 (‘Dos’) (2004) and 7 (forthcoming)
• ‘Home and forum: Cicero between `public' and `private'‘, Transactions of the American Philological Association 128 (1998) 1–23
• ‘The upper-class house as symbol and focus of emotion in Cicero’, Journal of Roman Archaeology 12 (1999) 33–56
• ‘Caught in the act: In filia deprehendere in the Lex Iulia de adulteriis’ in C. Damon, J. Miller and K. Myers eds, Vertis in usum. Studies in honour of Edward Courtney (München: Sauer, 2002) 243-9
• ‘Ancestral virtues and vices: Cicero on nature, nurture and presentation’ in David Braund and Christopher Gill eds, Myth, history and culture in republican Rome. Studies in honour of T. P. Wiseman (University of Exeter Press, 2003) 139-64
• ‘Marriage and family in Roman society’, in K. M. Campbell ed. Marriage and family in the biblical world (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2003) 132-82
• ‘Marriage and family’ in S. Harrison ed., A Companion to Latin literature (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005) 372-84
• ‘Putting the family across: Cicero on natural affection’, in M. George ed. The Roman family in the Empire. Rome, Italy and beyond (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) 9–35
• ‘Women in the time of Augustus’ in Karl Galinsky ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) 130-47
• ‘Case study I: Tullia’ (reprinted from Roman social history ) in Suzanne B. Faris and Lesley E. Lundeen eds., Ten years of the Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels Lectures at Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr: Thomas Library, Bryn Mawr College, 2006) 108-34
• ‘Cicero’s women’, Ad familiares 44 (2013) 111-2

Short articles in conference proceedings etc.

• ‘Lower-class women in the Roman economy’, Women's Classical Caucus Newsletter 3 (1978) 4 (abstract)
• ‘Rome: urban labour’, Seventh International Economic History Congress, theme B 3 (Edinburgh: EUP., 1978) 162- 165
• ‘Cicero's honour: preaching, perception and practice in the Speeches and Letters’, Festschrift for Beryl Rawson, 1999

Miscellaneous:

• ‘A giddy parergon: Kipling and the classics’, Classical News and Views/Echos du monde classique 14 (1970) 1–12
• ‘Kipling's classics’, The Kipling Journal 39 (1972) 7–12
• ‘Quisque suos patimur manes: the classical writers at Oxford’, Classical News and Views/Echos du monde classique 16 (1972) 69–74
• (With A. Treggiari) ‘The Craftsman’, Kipling Journal 196 (1975) 4–6
• ‘Oral tradition and `The Elephant's Child' again’, Classical Philology 100 (1979) 417–419
• ‘On Kipling's Horace’, Classical Views/Echos du monde classique 29 (n.s. 4 )(1985) 421–433
• Syllabi in S.B. Pomeroy and S.M. Burstein, Ancient History: Selected Reading Lists and Course Outlines from American Universities (New York, 1984, 1986) pp. 78, 115–122, 127, 164–166
• ‘Lilian Jeffery’, American Journal of Archeology 92 (1988) 227–228
• Frith, Anne, Dorothy Smith, Anne Bauers and Susan Treggiari, Daniel of Beccles. Urbanus Magnus, the Book of the Civilized Man (Beccles, 2007)
• ‘The Latin poem’ in Frith, Anne et aliae, Daniel of Beccles. Urbanus Magnus, the Book of the Civilized Man (Beccles, 2007)
• ‘Kipling and the Classical World’, http://www.kipling.org.uk/bookmart_fra.htm (2012)

Editing:

• T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic vol. iii Supplement (Atlanta: American Philological Association, 1986).

References

1. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2. Susan Treggiari at Oxford University