Elena Shtaerman

Elena Mikhailovna Shtaerman (28 September 1914, St. Petersburg – 22 October 1991, Moscow) was a prominent Soviet scholar of Roman history and translator of ancient authors (Julius Paulus Prudentissimus, Dionysius Cato, Publilius Syrus). She received the State Prize of the USSR.^[1]

Shtaerman studied under Nikolai Mashkin in Moscow, where she received her doctorate in 1942 and habilitation in 1956.^[2] From 1950, she was an academic assistant in the ancient history section of the Historical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences.^[2]

Major works

• "Кризис рабовладельческого строя в западных провинциях Римской империи" ("The Crisis of Slavery in the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire", 1957)
• "Мораль и религия угнетенных классов Римской империи" ("Morality and Religion of the Oppressed Classes of the Roman Empire", 1961)
• "Расцвет рабовладельческих отношений в Римской республике" ("The Heyday of the Slave Relations in the Roman Republic", 1964)
• "Рабовладельческие отношения в ранней Римской империи" ("Slave Relationships in the Early Roman Empire", 1971)
• "Кризис античной культуры" ("The Crisis of Ancient Culture", 1975)
• "Древний Рим. Проблемы экономического развития" ("Ancient Rome. Issues of Economic Development", 1978)
• "Социальные основы религии Древнего Рима" ("Social Basis of the Religion of Ancient Rome", 1987).

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