Robert Morstein-Marx

Dept. of Classics

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

(805) 893-2577/3556

FAX: (805) 893-4487

morstein@classics.ucsb.edu

Date of Birth: August 8, 1958.

Academic Positions

Visiting Lecturer in History, Smith College (1987-88).

Lecturer in Classical and Oriental Studies, Brandeis Univ. (1988-89).

Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Toronto (1989-92).

Assistant Professor of Classics with affiliated status in History, University of California, Santa

Barbara (1992-94).

Associate Professor of Classics with affiliated status in History, University of California, Santa

Barbara (1994-2003).

Professor of Classics with affiliated status in History, University of California, Santa Barbara (2003-).

Chair of Classics 2004-.

Education

University of Colorado, Boulder: 1981, B.A. History, Classics, Philosophy (summa cum laude in

History, magna cum laude in General Honors).

Oxford University (Wadham College): 1983, B.A. (M.A.) with First Class Honours, Literae Humaniores.

American School of Classical Studies, Athens: regular member, 1985-86.

University of California, Berkeley: 1987, PhD. Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology.

—Dissertation: “The Seeds of Empire: Rome and the East, 148-81 B.C.” directed by
E. S. Gruen.

Honors and Fellowships

Rhodes Scholarship, 1981-83.

Wadham College Scholarship, University of Oxford, 1982.

Berkeley Fellowship, University of California, 1983-87.

J.W. White Fellowship in Greek Archaeology, American School of Classical Studies at Athens,

1985-86 (declined in favor of Fulbright Scholarship).

Fulbright Scholarship to Greece, 1985-86.

Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Scholarship, 1987.

UC Regents’ Junior Faculty Fellowship, 1993.

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1994-95.

UC Regents’ Humanities Faculty Fellowship, 1997.

Publications (through 1997 under former name, “Robert M[orstein] Kallet-Marx”)

Books

1. Hegemony to Empire: The Development of the Roman Imperium in the East, 148-62 B.C.

Berkeley: UC Press, 1995.

2. Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004.

Notable reviews: TLS Dec. 24 & 31, 2004 (Dench), SCI 23 (2004) (Yakobson), BMCR 2005.03.10

(Riggsby), CR 55 (2005) (Steel), JRS 95 (2005) (Mouritsen).

3. A Companion to the Roman Republic (co-edited with N. S. Rosenstein). Malden, MA and Oxford:

Blackwell Publishing, 2006.

Articles, Reviews and Chapters

1. “Athens, Thebes, and the Foundation of the Second Athenian League,” Classical Antiquity 4

(1985) 127-51.

2. “The Evangelistria Watchtower and the Defense of the Zagara Pass,” in H. Beister, J. Buckler

edd., Boiotika. Vorträge vom 5. Internationalen Böotien-Kolloquium (Munich 1989) 301-11.

3. “Asconius 14-15C and the Date of Q. Mucius Scaevola’s Command in Asia,” Classical Philology

84 (1989) 305-12.

4. “The Trial of Rutilius Rufus,” Phoenix 44 (1990) 122-39.

5. Review of Cicero the Politician by C. Habicht, Phoenix 45 (1991) 83-85.

6. Review of The Cambridge Ancient History, second edition, volume 8, Phoenix 47 (1993) 76-79.

7. “Q. Fabius Maximus and the Dyme Affair (Syll.³ 684),” Classical Quarterly 45 (1995) 129-53.

8. “Two Athenian Decrees Concerning Lemnos of the Late First Century B.C.” (with R. S. Stroud).

Chiron 27 (1997) 155-94.

9. “Publicity, Popularity and Patronage in the Commentariolum Petitionis,” Classical Antiquity 17

(1998) 259-88.

10. “The Alleged ‘Massacre’ at Cirta and Its Consequences (Sallust Bellum Iugurthinum 26-27),”

Classical Philology 95 (2000) 468-76.

11. “Res publica res populi” (review article on Elections and Electioneering in Rome by A. Yakobson),

Scripta Classica Israelica 19 (2000) 224-33.

12. “The Myth of Numidian Origins in Sallust’s African Excursus (Iugurtha 17.7-18.12),”American

Journal of Philology 122 (2001) 179-200.

13. Review of Studi sulle guerre Mitridatiche by A. Mastrocinque, Gnomon 74 (2002) 645-47.

14. Review of Quintus Tullius Cicero: Commentariolum petitionis, edited and translated by G. Laser,

Classical Review 54 (2004) 362-63.

15. Review of Reading Cicero: Genre and Performance in Late Republican Rome by C. Steel, Journal of

Roman Studies 96 (2006) 245-46.

16. “The Transformation of the Republic” (co-authored with N. S. Rosenstein), in Nathan Rosenstein and

Robert Morstein-Marx (eds.), A Companion to the Roman Republic (2006; above, books), 625-37.

17. “Caesar’s Alleged Fear of Prosecution and his Ratio Absentis in the Approach to the Civil War,”

Historia 56 (2007) 159-78.

18. “Political History,” forthcoming in Blackwell Companion to Ancient History (A. Erskine, ed.).

19. “Dignitas and res publica: Caesar and Republican legitimacy,” in K.-J. Hölkeskamp (ed.), Eine

politische Kultur (in) der Krise? Die “letzte Generation” der römischen Republik (forthcoming

Munich, Oldenbourg 2008).

Work in progress

“A Testimony to My Brilliance: ‘Planted’ Factual Information in Caesar’s Helvetic Narrative.”

(article).

“Was Roman Voting a Consensus Ritual?” (article).

“Tali ingenio exitum non reperiebat. A New Look at Caesar’s Assassination” (article).

“Julius Caesar and Roman Political Culture” (book).

Lectures and Papers (selection)

“The Evangelistria Watchtower and the Defense of the Zagara Pass.” International Boeotia

Colloquium, Munich, 1986.

“The Status of Greece and Macedonia from 148/146 B.C.” APA 1986.

“Quintus Fabius Maximus and the Dyme Affair.” APA 1987.
“The Trial of Rutilius Rufus.” APA 1988

“Imperium, Roman Orders, and the Pattern of Roman Intervention in the East.” APA 1990.

“Tali ingenio exitum non reperiebat. The Spoils of Victory and the Ides of March.” University of

Toronto, 1991. Versions also presented at UCSB, 1991, and CSU-Fresno, 1992.

“Oratory in the Late Republican Contio.” APA, 1992.

“Oratory and the People in the Late Roman Republic.” Lecture delivered at UC-San Diego Working

Seminar on Ancient Politics and Contemporary Political Science, 1993.

“The Voice of the Roman People.” Smith College, 1994.

“The Contio and its Rhetoric in Late Republican Rome.” University of Toronto and University of

Pennsylvania, 1994.

“Publicity and Popularity in the Commentariolum Petitionis.” Friends of Ancient History,

Southern California, and APA, 1996.

“The Political Education of the Roman Plebs.” Keynote address, annual meeting of the Classical

Association of the Canadian West, Edmonton, 1997.

“Contio, quae ex imperitissimis constat: How Ignorant was the Roman Plebs?” APA, 1997.

“The Political Knowledge of the Roman Plebs in the Late Republic.” USC-UCLA Latin Seminar,

1998.

“The Voice of the Roman People.” AHMA Colloquium, Berkeley, 1998.

“Rome’s Imperium and Roman Imperialism.” The Roman half of a conference on Ancient
Imperialisms of China and Rome, Pomona College History Dept., 1999.

“Contested Memory: Damnatio Memoriae and its Republican Precedents.” UC Berkeley, 2002.

“Place, Monument, Memory: The Problem of the Gracchi.” USC-UCLA Latin Seminar, 2004.

“The Orator: A Roman Perspective.” UCSB College of Creative Studies Literature Symposium. 2004.

Response to “Roman Class Biases and Greek Political Strategies” by C. Champion. Scripps College

Conference on Class Struggles in Antiquity. 2005.

“Was Roman Voting a Consensus Ritual?” Ranieri Colloquium in Ancient Studies on “Conditions of

Democracy: Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Iraq.” New York University, November, 2005.

“A Testimony to My Brilliance: ‘Planted’ Factual Information in Caesar’s Helvetic Narrative.”

APA, January, 2006 and Classics Dept. Lunch-Hour Colloquium, February, 2007.

“Dignitas and res publica: Caesar and Republican legitimacy.” Colloquium of the “Historisches

Kolleg,” Munich: “Eine politische Kultur (in) der Krise? Die ‘letzte Generation’ der

römischen Republik,” June 21-23, 2006.

“Consular Appeals to the Army in 88 and 87: the Locus of Legitimacy in Late-Republican Rome.”

Colloquium on “Consuls, Consulars, and the Government of the Roman Republic,”

Zaragoza, Spain, 27-28, Sept. 2007

‘The Struggle over Italian Voting-Rights in 88-87 BC and Its Implications for the Debate about Political
Participation in the Late Roman Republic.”

APA, Jan 2008.

Other professional activities

Co-founder and co-editor of TOCS-IN (1992-98), an on-line source for current tables of contents in

Classics, Archaeology, and related fields: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/amphoras/tdata/

inform.toc.

Co-organizer, with Prof. N. Rosenstein, of organizer-refereed panel at 1993 meeting of the

American Philological Association: “Religion, Oratory and Aristocratic Power in Late

Republican Rome.”

Chair of paper session on “Roman Rhetoric and Politics,” 1995 meeting of the American Philological

Association.

Refereeing in Roman Republican and Hellenistic history for Blackwell Publishers, Cambridge University

Press, Oxford University Press, Classical Antiquity, Classical Philology, Historia and Phoenix.