Definition: Kansas-born Tenney Frank (1876?1939) was in the Latin Department of Bryn Mawr from 1904-1919 and then in 1919 he moved to Johns Hopkins. His writings include Roman Imperialism (1914), Economic History of Rome (1920), Life and Literature in the Roman Republic (Sather Lecture, 1930), An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome I and V (1933 & 1940). Tenney Frank thought the imperialism of Rome was due to her desire to keep peace by preventing the rise of any rival power.

Source: "Ancient Imperialism: Contemporary Justifications," Mason Hammond Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 58. (1948), pp. 105-161.