Miriam Tamara Griffin (née Dressler;[1] 6 June 1935 – 16 May 2018) was an American classical scholar and tutor of ancient history at Somerville College at the University of Oxford from 1967 to 2002.

[4] Griffin's alma mater was Barnard College, Columbia University in New York City, from which she graduated with a BA degree in 1956.

It was translated into French by Alexis D'Hautcourt and published as Néron, ou, La fin d'une dynastie in 2002.

[15] Griffin places Nero as a person, including "his desire for popularity and his fear and insecurity",[16][better source needed] in the context of the social and legislative structures of his time, and examines the ways in which this contributed to his downfall.

[17] Her work was reviewed as a "splendid book",[18]: 81  a "perceptive study", and "close to giving us the definitive account of the last and worst of the Julio-Claudians".

[3] In 2011, Griffin gave the Nineteenth Todd Memorial Lecture at the University of Sydney on the topic of 'Symptoms and Sympathy in Latin Letters'.

[4] A volume of Griffin's collected papers, edited by Catalina Balmaceda, is due to be published in June 2018 by Oxford University Press.

The volume is entitled Politics and Philosophy at Rome: Collected Papers, and includes previously unpublished lectures.

[24] Griffin published articles in academic journals in both fields, as well as contributing to 61 reference entries in the Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd rev.