Andrew William Lintott (born 9 December 1936) is a British

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who specialises in the political and administrative history of

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and

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. He is an emeritus fellow of Worcester College, University of Oxford.

Biography

From 1958 to 1960, Lintott was a

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in the

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. After leaving the service, he was an assistant

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then lecturer in

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King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

from 1960 to 1967. He was lecturer then senior lecturer in

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at the

University of Aberdeen , mottoeng = The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom , established = , type = Public research universityAncient university , endowment = £58.4 million (2021) , budget ...

(1967–81), and a

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and tutor in ancient history at Worcester College Oxford (1981–2004), where he became a

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in 1996 and a

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in 1999. In 1990, Lintott was a visiting member of the

Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent schola ...

Princeton Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nin ...

. He was a Hugh Last fellow at the

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in 1994, and a

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at the

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in 2002. Lintott edited and contributed to the '' Cambridge Ancient History'' series, to both volume 9, which he edited with J.A. Crook and

Elizabeth Rawson Elizabeth Donata Rawson, FBA (13 April 1934 – 10 December 1988''The Cambridge Ancient History'' (Cambridge University Press, 1994), vol. 9, preface, p. xvii.) was a classical scholar known primarily for her work in the intellectual history of ...

, and volume 10, for which his coeditors were

Alan Bowman Alan Bowman may refer to: * Alan Bowman (classicist) Alan Keir Bowman, FBA (born 23 May 1944) is a British classicist and academic. He was Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford from 2002 to 2010, and Principal of Bras ...

and Edward Champlin.

Selected publications

* ''Violence in

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'' (Oxford University Press, 1968, 2nd edition 1999). * ''Violence, Civil Strife and Revolution in the Classical City'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, reprinted 1987). * ''Judicial Reform and Land Reform in the Roman Republic'' (Cambridge University Press, 1992). * ''Cambridge Ancient History: The Last Age of the Roman Republic, 146–43 b.c.'' (Cambridge University Press, 1992), vol. 9, coedited with J. A. Crook and Elizabeth Rawson; contributed "The Crisis of the Republic: Sources and Source-problems," "The Roman Empire and Its Problems in the Late Second Century," "Political History, 146–95 b.c.," "Epilogue: The fall of the Roman Republic." * ''Imperium Romanum: Politics and Administration'' (Routledge, 1993). * ''Cambridge Ancient History: The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C–A.D. 69'' (Cambridge University Press, 1996), vol. 10, coedited with Alan K. Bowman and Edward Champlin. * "

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and the History of the Late Roman Republic," ''Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt'' II.34.3 (1997), 2497–2523. * ''The

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of the

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'' (Oxford University Press, 1999). * ''The Roman Republic'' (Sutton, 2000). * "

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of ...

and the Mixed Constitution," in ''Alternatives to Athens: Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece'', edited by R. Brock and S. Hodkinson (Oxford 2000), 152–66.Oxford Scholarship Online.
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as Evidence: A Historian's Companion'' (Oxford University Press, 2008). * ''The Romans in the Age of Augustus'' (Blackwell, 2010).

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lintott, Andrew 1936 births British classical scholars Scholars of Roman history Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford Academics of King's College London Living people Classical scholars of the University of Oxford