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- Professor, History (HIST), College of Arts and Sciences
- Department Chairperson, History (HIST), College of Arts and Sciences
- Professor, Classics (CLASS), College of Arts and Sciences
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Research
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- Ancient Greek History
- Military History
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Publications
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academic article
- Korea's Legendary Admiral. MHQ : The Quarterly Journal of Military History. 17:52-61. 2005
- The Black Phalanx: African-Americans and the Classics After the Civil War. Arion. 12:39-64. 2005
- Flames Over Athens. Arion. 101-116. 2004
- Go Tell the Spartans. MHQ : The Quarterly Journal of Military History. 17:16-25. 2004
- On Public Speech in a Democratic Republic at War. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. 6:22-37. 2003
- Reflections on the Citizen-Soldier. Parameters: Journal of the US Army War College. 33:66-77. 2003
- Thrasybulus and Conon: The Price of Rivalry. MHQ : The Quarterly Journal of Military History. 13:42. 2001
- Rome's Persian Mirage. MHQ : The Quarterly Journal of Military History. 12:18-27. 1999
- Victory by Guile: Breaking the Siege of Constantinople. MHQ : The Quarterly Journal of Military History. 11:104-111. 1999
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book
- The Trojan War: A New History. London: Hutchinson. 2007
- The Trojan War: A New History. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2006
- Salamis, The Greatest Naval Battle of the Ancient World, 480 BC. London: Arrow. 2004
- The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece--and Western Civilization. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2004
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- In the Shadow of the Fortress. Confronting Tyranny: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics. 233-241. 2005
- Alexander: The Military Campaign. Brill's Companion to Alexander the Great. 133-158. 2003
- Democracy, Kimon, and the Evolution of Athenian Naval Tactics in the Fifth Century B.C.. Polis & Politics: Studies in Ancient Greek History. 315-326. 2000
- Perspectives on Death of Fifth-Century Athenian Seamen. War and Violence in Ancient Greece. 261-284. 2000
- The Dark Ages Made Lighter: The Consequences of Two Defeats. What If? : The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been: Essays. 71-92. 1999
- Genealogy, Ideology, and Society in Democratic Athens. Democracy 2500? : Questions and Challenges. 141-154. 1998
- The Problem of Periodization: The Case of the Peloponnesian War. The Problem of Periodization: The Case of the Peloponnesian War. 165-175. 1997
selected publications listing
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- Books
- The Trojan War, A New History, Hutchinson/Random House, UK, 2007.
- The Trojan War, A New History, Simon & Schuster, USA, 2006; translations forthcoming in Italian and Spanish; History Book Club, main selection.
- Western Civilization: Beyond Boundaries, co-author (Houghton Mifflin). Fifth edition, 2008 [available December 2006]. (First-Fourth editions, entitled Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment, 1994-2005.)
- The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Ancient Greece - and Western Civilization (Simon & Schuster, USA, 2004, paperback 2005); Salamis, The Greatest Naval Battle of the Ancient World, 480 BC (Hutchinson/Random House UK, 2004, paperback 2005). Translations in Greek, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, 2005-2006.
- War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War. Co-edited with David McCann. (M.E. Sharpe, 2001).
- Salamis: The Navel Battle That Saved Ancient Greece – and Western Civilization (Simon & Schuster, USA, 2004; Hutchinson/Random House UK, 2004; translations into Greek and Portuguese forthcoming).
- Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment, co-author (Houghton Mifflin). Fourth Edition. 2004.
- War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War. Co-edited with David McCann. (M.E. Sharpe), 2001.
- Articles and Chapters
- “Why Troy is Still Burning,” Historically Speaking, The Bulletin of the Historical Society. Volume VII/Number 6 (September/October, 2006).
- “The Black Phalanx: African-Americans and the Classics After the Civil War,” Arion 12.3 (Winter 2005): 39-64.
- “The Agony of War Under Oars,” Naval History 19.1 (February 2005): 39-42.
- “The Scholar and Teacher,” Humanities, The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities 26.3 (May/June 2005): 8-13.
- “The Rebirth of Narrative,” Historically Speaking 6.6 (July/August 2005): 1-5.
- “Korea’s Legendary Admiral,” MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History 17.4 (Summer 2005): 52-61.
- “In the Shadow of the Fortress,” in Toivo Koivukoski & David Tabachnick, eds. Confronting Tyranny: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics. Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, 233-241.
- “On Public Speech in a Democratic Republic at War.” In Republicanism: History, Theory, and Practice, a special issue of the CRISPP (Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy) 6.1 (Spring 2003): 22-37. Also published as Daniel Weinstock and Christian Nadeau, eds. Republicanism: History, Theory and Practice (Frank Cass, 2004), 22-37.
- “The Dead of Arginusae and the Debate About the Athenian Navy” [in modern Greek translation as well as in English] Nautiki Epithewrisi 545.160s (Jan-Feb 2004): 40-67.
- “Flames Over Athens,” Arion 12.1 (Spring/Summer 2004): 101-116.
- “Go Tell the Spartans,” MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History 17.1 (Autumn 2004): 16-25.
- “Faith for the Flight,” Arion 11.3 (Winter 2004): 129-140.
- “The Dead of Arginusae and the Debate About the Athenian Navy” [in modern Greek translation as well as in English] Nautiki Epithewrisi 545.160s (Jan-Feb 2004): 40-67.
- “Flames Over Athens,” Arion 12.1 (Spring/Summer 2004): 101-116.
- “Go Tell the Spartans,” MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History 17.1 (Autumn 2004): 16-25.
- “On Public Speech in a Democratic Republic at War.” In Republicanism: History, Theory, and Practice, a special issue of the CRISPP (Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy) 6.1 (Spring 2003): 22-37.
- “Alexander: The Military Campaign,” in J. Roisman, ed., Alexander the Great. Leiden: Brill, 2003, pp. 133-158.
- “On National Security Strategy and American Policy Toward Iraq.” In M. Evangelista, ed. Iraq and Beyond: The New U.S. National Security Strategy. Occasional Paper No. 27. Ithaca, N.Y.: Peace Studies Program, Cornell University, January 2003, pp. 11-14.
- “Reflections on the Citizen-Soldier. “Parameters: US Army War College Quarterly The United States Army’s Senior Professional Journal. Summer 2003 vol. 33.2: pp. 66-77.
- “Collateral Damage: Commentary.” In Andru E. Wall, ed. The Legal and Ethical Implications of NATO’s Kosovo Campaign. International Law Studies vol. 78. Newport, RI: Naval War College, 2002, pp. 293-296.
- “The Price of Rivalry.” MHQ. The Quarterly Journal of Military History 13.3 (Spring), 2001.
- “Democracy, Kimon, and the Evolution of Athenian Naval Tactics in the Fifth Century B.C.” In Pernille Flensted-Jensen, Thomas Heine Nielsen, and Lene Rubenstein, eds. Polis & Politics. Studies in Ancient Greek History. Presented to Mogens Herman Hansen on his 60th Birthday. (Museum Tuscylanum Press. University of Copenhagen) 315-326.
- “Perspectives on the death of fifth-century Athenian seamen,” in Hans van Wees, ed. War and Violence in Ancient Greece. (Duckworth), 261-284.
- “Victory By Guile. Breaking the Siege of Constantinople” in MHQ. The Quarterly Journal of Military History 11.3 (Spring), 104-111.
- “Epilogue: On War and Society in the Pre-Modern World,” with Victor Hanson in K. Raaflaub and N. Rosenstein, eds. War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (Harvard University Press), 439-453 (1999).
- “The Dark Ages Made Lighter: The Consequences of Two Defeats,” in Robert Cowley, ed. What If: The Greatest might Have Beens in military History (New Putnam), 71-92 (1999).
- “Rome’s Persian Mirage” in MHQ. The Quarterly Journal of Military History 11.4 (Autumn 1999), 18-27.
- “A Lighter Dark Ages,” in “What If? The Greatest Might Have Beens of Military History,” MHQ, The Quarterly Journal of Military History 10:3 (Spring 1998), 69.
- “The Problem of Periodization: The Case of the Peloponnesian War,” in M. Golden and P. Toohey, eds., Inventing Ancient Culture: Historicism, Periodization, and the Ancient World (Routledge), 165-175.
- “The Art of Alliance and the Peloponnesian War,” in C.D. Hamilton and P. Krentz, eds., Polis and Polemos: Essays on Politics, War and History in Ancient Greece in Honor of Donald Kagan (Regina Press), 127-140.
- “Genealogy, Ideology, and Society in Democratic Athens.” In I. Morris and K. Raaflaub, eds., Democracy 2500? Questions and Challenges. Archaeological Institute of America. Colloquia and Conference Papers, No. 2, 1997 (Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company): 141-154.
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Teaching
teaching overview
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- Small Wars in Greece and Rome | HIST 206
- Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander the Great | HIST 265
- History of Battle | HIST 363
- Spartacus | HIST 667
teaching activities
- HIST-2001: Supervised Reading - Undergraduate - Spring 2013
- HIST-3002: Supervised Research - Undergraduate - Spring 2013
- HIST-8004: Supervised Reading - Spring 2013
- HIST-2001: Supervised Reading - Undergraduate - Fall 2012
- HIST-3002: Supervised Research - Undergraduate - Fall 2012
- HIST-8004: Supervised Reading - Fall 2012
- HIST-8005: Supervised Reading - Fall 2012
- HIST-2001: Supervised Reading - Undergraduate - Spring 2012
- HIST-3002: Supervised Research - Undergraduate - Spring 2012
- HIST-8004: Supervised Reading - Spring 2012
- CLASS-7684: Topics in Ancient Greek History - Fall 2011
- HIST-2001: Supervised Reading - Fall 2011
- HIST-3002: Supervised Research - Fall 2011
- HIST-6330: Topics in Ancient Greek History - Fall 2011
- HIST-8004: Supervised Reading - Fall 2011
- HIST-8005: Supervised Reading - Fall 2011
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Yale University 1979
- M.A., Yale University 1976
- B.A., Cornell University 1974
awards and honors
- Invited Participant in 50th Annual National Security Seminar, U.S. Army War College, 2004
- Resident Fellow, MacDowell Colony for the Arts, 2004
- Faculty Fellow, 2001
- Laurence S. Rockefeller Fellow, University Center for Human Values, Princeton, 1998
- Lucius N. Littauer Foundation Research Grant, 1998
- attle of Salamis named by Washingron Post as one of the best books of the year, 2004; starred reviews in Kirkus Reviews, Booklist