Current Position:



Professor Emeritus

Address:

1831 Murray Ave., Suite #217
Pittsburgh PA 15217-1656

E-mail: micalexa@uic.edu

Education:

• B.A. 1968 Swarthmore College, Department of History, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
• M.A. 1970 University of Toronto, Department of Classical Studies (Classics), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Ph.D. 1977 University of Toronto, Dept. of Classical Studies (Ancient History), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Dissertation Title: "Forensic Advocacy in the Late Roman Republic"
  Dissertation Adviser: G.V. Summer

Books:

• The Case for the Prosecution in the Ciceronian Era (University of Michigan Press, 2002)
  
  
• Trials in the Late Roman Republic, 149 BC to 50 BC (University of Toronto Press, 1990)

Articles:

• “The Commentariolum Petitionis as an Attack on Election Campaigns,” Athenaeum 97 (2009) 31-57, 369-95.
• "The Repudiated Technicality in Roman Forensic Oratory," pp. 59-72, in Lex et Romanitas: Essays for Alan Watson. Ed. Michael Hoeflich. Studies in Comparative Legal History (Robbins Collection Publications, School of Law, U. of California at Berkeley, 2000)
• "The Role of Torquatus the Younger in the Ambitus Prosecution of Sulla in 66 B.C., and Cicero De Finibus 2.62," Classical Philology 94 (1999) 65-69
• "Analysis of an Ancient Network: Personal Communication and the Study of Social Structure in a Past Society," Social Networks 12 (1990) 313-35 [with James A. Danowski]
• "Praemia in the Quaestiones of the Late Republic," Classical Philology 80 (1985) 20-32
• "Compensation in a Roman Criminal Law", University of Illinois Law Review (1984) 521-39
• "Repetition of Prosecution, and the Scope of Prosecutions, in the Standing Criminal Courts of the Late Republic," Classical Antiquity 1 (1982) 141-66
• "The legatio Asiatica of Scaurus: did it take place?" Transactions of the American Philological Association 111 (1981) 1-9
• "Hortensius' Speech in Defense of Verres," Phoenix 30 (1976) 46-53

 

Chapters in Books:

• “Locating the Trial of Plancius between Rules and Persuasion.” Pp. 339-55, in La repressione criminale nella Roma repubblicana fra norma e persuasione, ed. B. Santalucia. Pavia, Italy: IUSS Press, 2009.
• "Oratory, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Republic." Pp. 98-108, in A Companion to Roman Rhetoric, edd. William Dominik and Jon Hall. Malden MA: Blackwell, 2007.
• "Law in the Roman Republic." Pp. 236-55, in A Companion to the Roman Republic, edd. Nathan Rosenstein and Robert Morstein-Marx. Malden MA: Blackwell, 2006.
  
  

Work in Progress:

• NEH Fellowship for College Teachers, 1983-84
• Fellowship, National Humanities Center, 1983-84
• Fellowship, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1986-87