Faculty Profile Robert Morstein-Marx Telephone: 805-893-2577 Email: morstein@classics.ucsb.edu Robert Morstein-Marx is Professor of Classics. After his B.A. from the University of Colorado (Classics, History and Philosophy) and an Honors B.A. from the University of Oxford (Literae Humaniores), he earned his PhD in 1987 at UC Berkeley from the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology. He is the author of two books, the first, Hegemony to Empire: The Development of the Roman Imperium in the East from 148 to 62 BC, focusing on questions of Roman imperialism, the second, Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic, analysing the effects of public speech and public meetings upon the distribution of political power in Rome. He has also co-edited (with Nathan Rosenstein) the recent Blackwell Companion to the Roman Republic. His main research interests lie in Roman history from the middle Republic to the early Empire, and current work focuses on political culture in the Late Roman Republic, especially political values and concepts and the conflicting sources of legitimacy in a time of crisis. Other major interests include Cicero, Roman rhetoric, Roman imperialism, and Latin and Greek historiography. Graduate supervision He would be happy to hear from prospective students who are interested in pursuing advanced study in any of the above areas. Books Blackwell Companion to the Roman Republic (edited, with N.S. Rosenstein). (Blackwell Press, 2006). Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic. (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Hegemony to Empire: The Development of the Roman Imperium in the East, 148-62 B.C. (Berkeley: UC Press, 1995). Selected Articles "Dignitas and res publica: Caesar and Republican legitimacy," in Eine  politische Kultur (in) der Krise? Die "letzte Generation" der römischen Republik, edited by K.-J. Hölkeskamp (forthcoming). "Political History," in the Blackwell Companion to Ancient History, edited by A. Erskine (forthcoming). "Caesar's Alleged Fear of Prosecution and his Ratio Absentis in the Approach to the Civil War", Historia 56 (2007) 159-78. "The Transformation of the Republic" (with N.S. Rosenstein), in the Blackwell Companion to the Roman Republic (2006). "The Myth of Numidian Origins in Sallust's African Excursus," American Journal of Philology 122 (2001) 179-200. "The Alleged 'Massacre' at Cirta and Its Consequences (Sall. BJ 26-27)," Classical Philology 95 (2000) 468-76. "Publicity, Popularity and Patronage in the Commentariolum Petitionis," Classical Antiquity 17 (1998) 259-88. "Q. Fabius Maximus and the Dyme Affair (Syll.3 684)," Classical Quarterly 45 (1995) 129-53. >>Click here for a full CV

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