Miriam T Griffin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3874959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam T Griffin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam T |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffin |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFIN M T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 288 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 9 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
On Acts of Kindness
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Book 2
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Cicero and Seneca
Seneca on Society: A Guide to De Beneficiis
PREFACE ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION PART ONE: THE SUBJECT MATTER OF DE BENEFICIIS PART TWO: SENECA'S TREATISE PART THREE: A MAP OF DE BENEFICIIS BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON PERSONS IN DE BENEFICIIS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX LOCORUM GENERAL INDEX
Tacitus as a historian
Many of the chapters in this book explore in their different ways the distinctive character of Tacitus as a historian. This one will sketch some of his general conceptions of history and show how he conveys them. / A philosophy of history? / Did Tacitus have a general philosophy of why things happen and, if so, does he make it explicit? Can we look to him for a theory of history, for systematic thinking about human life and its vicissitudes? The …
Philosophy and power in the Graeco-Roman world: Essays in honour of Miriam Griffin
This volume in Miriam Griffin's honour brings together international historians of the Graeco-Roman world and students of its philosophies. It asks what the concept of philosophy meant for those in power in the Graeco-Roman world
Philosophia togata
Philosophical Badinage in Cicero’s Letters to his Friends
The purpose of this discussion is to focus on a problem that is more historical than philosophical, but which may suggest to philosophers the use of valuable material which they have not previously explored. The problem is how to gauge the extent, the depth, and the nature of philosophical knowledge and interest at Rome. To do this we need to extend our reach beyond those few figures to whom no one would deny some degree of expertise. For the Lat…
Ideology For A New Regime
Seneca’S Apocolocyntosis, as all would admit, has its serious political side. Menippean satire, a Hellenistic literary form already imitated by Varro, seems to have been social and general in its approach. Seneca took over the literary form and useful motifs but wrote instead political satire, ridiculing the dead Emperor by name and condemning the specific abuses of his reign. The farce was probably presented to the court and specially favoured s…
Abbreviations
Seneca On The Fall Of The Republic
Seneca wrote only one work on political theory and one other work essentially political in content. These two pieces, the De Clementia and the Apocolocyntosis, belong to Seneca’s role as minister and courtier. In them the philosopher was at the service of the statesman.
The ‘Minister’ Of Nero
Two of our principal sources for the reign of Nero credit Seneca and Burrus with the excellence of the early years. Tacitus and Cassius Dio differ somewhat in defining the temporal limits of their ascendancy, but both agree that, for a period, they effectively controlled Nero and exercised their control in the interest of good government. The lack of prominence accorded them by our third main source, Suetonius’Nero, is not contrary evidence but m…
Mors Diu Meditata
In the latter part of 64, Seneca, though again refused permission to retire from Rome, surrendered part of his fortune and retreated to his room to lead the life of an invalid. Early in the next year a plot was formed to assassinate Nero and set C. Calpurnius Pisa on the throne. On the very day fixed for the murder of the Emperor, probably 19 April 65, Seneca, who had apparently left Rome again to travel in Campania, returned to his villa near th…
Seneca Praedives
In antiquity and ever since, Seneca has been known best, and hated most, for combining philosophy with wealth. The most persistent charges of hypocrisy centred, then as now, on his fortune and its acquisition, for no one excelled this millionaire in singing the praises of poverty. The subject of Seneca’s wealth and his pronouncements, however, concerns not only the state of his soul: what he says, regardless of his practice, is bound to be intere…
Seneca On Slavery
Seneca pleaded a powerful case for the humane treatment of slaves. He was not the first philosopher to discuss in detail the proper relations of master and slave: he himself refers to the standard topic de usu servorum that, among the Stoics, was included, along with advice on the treatment of wives and children, in their casuistical discussions of justice. These discussions are lost, but, as will appear, they probably did not contain suggestions…
The Philosopher On The Principate
What Seneca says of the last years of the Republic shows that he lamented its demise but regarded the change to the Principate as irrevocable. What was lost with the Republic was libertas and the rule of law; what was gained was peace and security. Seneca docs not compare the two constitutions. Did he approve of the Principate as a form of government? It is a common view that the Stoics of the first century A.D. can have had, on philosophical gro…
The Provincial On The Provinces
As a Spaniard and a Stoic, Seneca had two good reasons for being interested in the Empire and subjects of Rome. Spain was the oldest of Rome’s major provinces; Stoicism preached commitment to human society and had boasted among its adherents many champions of just rule over the provinces. Against such a background, the paucity and poverty of Seneca’s thoughts on the subject stand out all too clearly. Worse still, even these thoughts, as will appe…
The Philosopher On Political Participation
Of all the issues treated in the Greek philosophical schools, none had more appeal for the Romans than the choice between a life of service to the res publica and a life of otium devoted to philosophy. The thesis ‘sitne sapientis ad rem publicam accedere’ was in the late Republic and the Empire one of the favourite exercises taken over by the rhetorical schools from the philosophers. The prominence of this theme in Seneca’s works and the complexi…
Title Pages
Seneca: A Philosopher In Politics
For this Clarendon Paperback, Dr Griffin has written a new Postscript to bring the original book fully up to date. She discusses further important and controversial questions of fact or interpretation in the light of the scholarship of the intervening years and provides additional argument where necessary. The connection between Seneca's prose works and his career as a first-century Roman statesman is problematic. Although he writes in the first …
Philosophia togata
Seneca on Society: A Guide to De Beneficiis
PREFACE ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION PART ONE: THE SUBJECT MATTER OF DE BENEFICIIS PART TWO: SENECA'S TREATISE PART THREE: A MAP OF DE BENEFICIIS BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON PERSONS IN DE BENEFICIIS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX LOCORUM GENERAL INDEX
The ‘Leges Iudiciariae’ of the Pre-Sullan Era
Mommsen invented the notion that the ancient sources provide clear evidence for placing the pre-Sullan laws affecting the iudicia publica in two distinct categories, i.e. laws affecting courts in general ( leges iudiciariae ) and laws affecting one court ( leges repetundarum, maiestatis , etc.). Fraccaro demolished it, arguing that the term lex iudiciaria had no such precise meaning in the ancient authors and that all the laws to which it was app…
Seneca on Cato's Politics: Epistle 14. 12–13
In the fourteenth letter to Lucilius, Seneca explains how to avoid physical danger and discomfort: the worst threats to the body come not from nature but from men in power; therefore safety lies in not giving offence. Ad philosophiam confugiendum est (11): the study of philosophy incurs neither envy nor contempt, provided that the philosopher pursues it peacefully and without ostentation
De Brevitate Vitae
Caligula was dead when Seneca wrote De Brevitate Vitae . The phrase ‘modo modo intra paucos illos dies quibus C. Caesar periit ...’ might suggest a date in the 40's. But, in a letter, lamenting the briefness of life, Seneca remarks on the distant events to which an old man's memory can apply modo : ‘Et tamen hoc “modo” aetatis nostrae bona portio est.’ Lipsius' theory collapses. His successors have supported other dates, principally two: 49, firs…
J. Brisset, Les Idées Politiques de Lucain. Paris: ‘Les Belles Lettres’, 1964. Pp. 236. Fr. 18
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Seneca on Cato's Politics: Epistle 14. 12–13
In the fourteenth letter to Lucilius, Seneca explains how to avoid physical danger and discomfort: the worst threats to the body come not from nature but from men in power; therefore safety lies in not giving offence. Ad philosophiam confugiendum est (11): the study of philosophy incurs neither envy nor contempt, provided that the philosopher pursues it peacefully and without ostentation
E. Meise, Untersuchungen Zur Geschichte Der Julisch-Claudischen Dynastie (Vestigia 10). Munich: C. H. Beck, 1969. Pp. xi + 269. DM. 42
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The ‘Leges Iudiciariae’ of the Pre-Sullan Era
Mommsen invented the notion that the ancient sources provide clear evidence for placing the pre-Sullan laws affecting the iudicia publica in two distinct categories, i.e. laws affecting courts in general ( leges iudiciariae ) and laws affecting one court ( leges repetundarum, maiestatis , etc.). Fraccaro demolished it, arguing that the term lex iudiciaria had no such precise meaning in the ancient authors and that all the laws to which it was app…
Nero: The End of a Dynasty
Nero. The End of a Dynasty
Ideology For A New Regime
Seneca’S Apocolocyntosis, as all would admit, has its serious political side. Menippean satire, a Hellenistic literary form already imitated by Varro, seems to have been social and general in its approach. Seneca took over the literary form and useful motifs but wrote instead political satire, ridiculing the dead Emperor by name and condemning the specific abuses of his reign. The farce was probably presented to the court and specially favoured s…
Abbreviations
Seneca On The Fall Of The Republic
Seneca wrote only one work on political theory and one other work essentially political in content. These two pieces, the De Clementia and the Apocolocyntosis, belong to Seneca’s role as minister and courtier. In them the philosopher was at the service of the statesman.
The ‘Minister’ Of Nero
Two of our principal sources for the reign of Nero credit Seneca and Burrus with the excellence of the early years. Tacitus and Cassius Dio differ somewhat in defining the temporal limits of their ascendancy, but both agree that, for a period, they effectively controlled Nero and exercised their control in the interest of good government. The lack of prominence accorded them by our third main source, Suetonius’Nero, is not contrary evidence but m…
Mors Diu Meditata
In the latter part of 64, Seneca, though again refused permission to retire from Rome, surrendered part of his fortune and retreated to his room to lead the life of an invalid. Early in the next year a plot was formed to assassinate Nero and set C. Calpurnius Pisa on the throne. On the very day fixed for the murder of the Emperor, probably 19 April 65, Seneca, who had apparently left Rome again to travel in Campania, returned to his villa near th…
Seneca Praedives
In antiquity and ever since, Seneca has been known best, and hated most, for combining philosophy with wealth. The most persistent charges of hypocrisy centred, then as now, on his fortune and its acquisition, for no one excelled this millionaire in singing the praises of poverty. The subject of Seneca’s wealth and his pronouncements, however, concerns not only the state of his soul: what he says, regardless of his practice, is bound to be intere…
Seneca On Slavery
Seneca pleaded a powerful case for the humane treatment of slaves. He was not the first philosopher to discuss in detail the proper relations of master and slave: he himself refers to the standard topic de usu servorum that, among the Stoics, was included, along with advice on the treatment of wives and children, in their casuistical discussions of justice. These discussions are lost, but, as will appear, they probably did not contain suggestions…
The Philosopher On The Principate
What Seneca says of the last years of the Republic shows that he lamented its demise but regarded the change to the Principate as irrevocable. What was lost with the Republic was libertas and the rule of law; what was gained was peace and security. Seneca docs not compare the two constitutions. Did he approve of the Principate as a form of government? It is a common view that the Stoics of the first century A.D. can have had, on philosophical gro…
The Provincial On The Provinces
As a Spaniard and a Stoic, Seneca had two good reasons for being interested in the Empire and subjects of Rome. Spain was the oldest of Rome’s major provinces; Stoicism preached commitment to human society and had boasted among its adherents many champions of just rule over the provinces. Against such a background, the paucity and poverty of Seneca’s thoughts on the subject stand out all too clearly. Worse still, even these thoughts, as will appe…
The Philosopher On Political Participation
Of all the issues treated in the Greek philosophical schools, none had more appeal for the Romans than the choice between a life of service to the res publica and a life of otium devoted to philosophy. The thesis ‘sitne sapientis ad rem publicam accedere’ was in the late Republic and the Empire one of the favourite exercises taken over by the rhetorical schools from the philosophers. The prominence of this theme in Seneca’s works and the complexi…
Title Pages
Dedication
The First Fifty Years
‘EGONE equestri et provinciali loco ortus proceribus civitatis adnumeror ?’ In these words Tacitus’ Seneca expresses, at the moment when he was about to lose his great power and position, his amazement at what he had achieved. By comparison, his start as the son of a wealthy gentleman and scholar of Corduba in Spain seemed modest indeed.
Seneca: A Philosopher In Politics
For this Clarendon Paperback, Dr Griffin has written a new Postscript to bring the original book fully up to date. She discusses further important and controversial questions of fact or interpretation in the light of the scholarship of the intervening years and provides additional argument where necessary. The connection between Seneca's prose works and his career as a first-century Roman statesman is problematic. Although he writes in the first …
Philosophical Badinage in Cicero’s Letters to his Friends
The purpose of this discussion is to focus on a problem that is more historical than philosophical, but which may suggest to philosophers the use of valuable material which they have not previously explored. The problem is how to gauge the extent, the depth, and the nature of philosophical knowledge and interest at Rome. To do this we need to extend our reach beyond those few figures to whom no one would deny some degree of expertise. For the Lat…
Philosophia togata
Philosophy and power in the Graeco-Roman world: Essays in honour of Miriam Griffin
This volume in Miriam Griffin's honour brings together international historians of the Graeco-Roman world and students of its philosophies. It asks what the concept of philosophy meant for those in power in the Graeco-Roman world
Tacitus as a historian
Many of the chapters in this book explore in their different ways the distinctive character of Tacitus as a historian. This one will sketch some of his general conceptions of history and show how he conveys them. / A philosophy of history? / Did Tacitus have a general philosophy of why things happen and, if so, does he make it explicit? Can we look to him for a theory of history, for systematic thinking about human life and its vicissitudes? The …
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