Susan Treggiari

Susan Treggiari is Bass Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, and a retired member of the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford. Brought up in Gloucestershire, she was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, before taking up teaching posts mostly in Canada and the United States. She has served as President of both the Association of Ancient Historians and the American Philological Association, and is a member of the American Academy and an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. Her work on slaves and freed slaves later led her to focus on the Roman family and she has published monographs on the women of Cicero's family, Roman social history, and Roman marriage.