Education
Born in Vienna, he received BAs from Columbia University and Oxford University, and the Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University, in 1964.
Born in Vienna, he received BAs from Columbia University and Oxford University, and the Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University, in 1964.
He was the Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught full-time from 1966 until 2008. He served as president of the American Philological Association in 1992. He also received the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.
His earlier work focussed on the later Roman Republic, and culminated in The Last Generation of the Roman Republic, a work often cited as a response to Ronald Syme"s The Roman Revolution.
Gruen"s argument is that the Republic was not in decay, and so not necessarily in need of "rescue" by Caesar Augustus and the institutions of the Empire. Despite his retirement from full-time teaching, he continues to oversee doctoral dissertations and is widely sought for visiting professorships.
In addition to University College Berkeley, Gruen has taught at Harvard University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Cornell University. He claims that his most inspirational teaching experience, however, was a brief stint instructing prisoners at San Quentin State Prison in the late 2000s.
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