# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/miriam-griffin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:50:07.521Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/miriam-griffin"
name: "Miriam Griffin"
slug: "miriam-griffin"
description: "Miriam Tamara Griffin was an American classical scholar and tutor of ancient history at Somerville College at the University of Oxford from 1967 to 2002. She was a scholar of Roman history and ancient thought, and wrote books on the Emperor Nero and his tutor, Seneca, encouraging an appreciation of the philosophical writings of the ancient Romans within their historical context."
tagline: "British university teacher (1935–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Miriam_Griffin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1935-06-06"
deathDate: "2018-05-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.072570666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Miriam T. Griffin"
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    title: "ميريام جريفين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Miriam Griffin"
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  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Griffin"
    title: "Miriam Griffin"
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  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_T._Griffin"
    title: "Miriam T. Griffin"
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  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Griffin"
    title: "Miriam Griffin"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1938134"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump