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

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of Worcester College, University of Oxford.

Biography

From 1958 to 1960, Lintott was a second lieutenant 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 university, public research university in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV ...

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

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at the

University of Aberdeen The University of Aberdeen (abbreviated ''Aberd.'' in List of post-nominal letters (United Kingdom), post-nominals; ) is a public university, public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was founded in 1495 when William Elphinstone, Bis ...

(1967–81), and a

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and tutor in ancient history at Worcester College Oxford (1981–2004), where he became a reader in 1996 and a

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

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at Princeton. 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, and volume 10, for which his coeditors were Alan Bowman and Edward Champlin.

Selected publications

* ''Violence in Republican Rome'' (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). * "

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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

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