Anthony SmartAnthony Smart is an independent researcher based in the UK. A graduate of the University of York, he was previously Lecturer in Ancient and Medieval History at York St. John University, UK. A specialist in the history of Rome, with a particular interest in the political manifestation of emotion in the late Republic and early Principate, he has published on Greek, Roman and Anglo-Saxon history. He is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, and the Higher Education representative for the Classical Association's Ancient History Teaching Board. He is the author of Grief and Sorrow in the Roman World: Republic to Empire (Bloomsbury). Read More Read Less