Professor

Susan Mary Treggiari

Historian; Classicist; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
History
Elected
1995

Professor Susan M. Treggiari has done substantial research on Roman social history of the central period (c. 100 BC - c. AD 200). Her particular interests are in the family, especially marital and quasi-marital relationships, and in slaves and freed slaves in the urban household. Currently, her work focuses on Cicero, popular morality and the upper-class family in the 1st century B.C. Susan Treggiari read Literae Humaniores at LMH 1958-62 and for a BLitt 1962-4. She taught at the University of Ottawa 1970-82 and at Stanford 1982-2001, where she was Anne T. & Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences from 1992. She has held Visiting Fellowships at Brasenose and All Souls and a Visiting Professorship at Yale and has won the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit of the American Philological Association. She has served as Joint-Editor of Classical News and Views and President of the Association of Ancient Historians and of the American Philological Association and became on retirement a member of the Faculty of Classics at Oxford. She is a General Editor of the Clarendon Ancient History Series, a DLitt. (Oxon.) and an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall.

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