Colin Behrens

Visiting Lecturer

Publications

"Scale Jumping and Problem Definition in the Priscillianist Controversy." Scale and the Study of Late Antiquity: Proceedings of the 14th Biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference. Edited by Kristina Sessa and Kevin Uhalde. Munera 53. Edipuglia, Bari. 2023.

Klarman Hall
120 Goldwin Smith Hall
cpb89@cornell.edu

Education

  • Ph. D., Classics, Cornell University (2023)
  • B.A., Classics: Latin and Greek, Florida State University (2016)

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Alan van den Arend

ALI Postdoctoral Associate

Publications

Klarman Hall
143 Klarman Hall
arv24@cornell.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., History, Johns Hopkins (2022)
  • M.A. w/ distinction, History, Johns Hopkins (2020)
  • M.A., Classics, University of Kentucky (2017)
  • A.B., Classics, Cornell (2010)

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Barry Stuart Strauss

Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies

Publications

Books

  • 2022: The War that Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium (Simon & Schuster).
  • 2021: Troya Savasi (Istanbul: Kronik - Turkish translation of The Trojan War) 

    Von Augustus tot Constantin (Utrecht: Omniboek - Dutch translation of Ten Caesars)

    Dez Césares (Lisbon: Bertrand Editora - Portuguese translation of Ten Caesars)

  • 2020: Imperatori (Rome: Laterza - Italian translation of Ten Caesars)

     The Trojan War (Social Science Academic Press - Chinese edition)

  • 2013:  Western Civilization: Beyond Boundaries, co-author (Cengage). Seventh Edition, previous editions, 1994-2009.

    L’arte del Comando: Alessandro, Annibale, Cesare. (Rome-Bari: Editori Laterza). [Italian translation of Masters of Command.]

    Tarihe Yön Veren Büyük Komutanlar (Istanbul: Say Yayinlari). [Turkish translation of Masters of Command.]

  • 2010: The Spartacus War. Paperback editions published by Simon & Schuster, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK edition). 

    Spartacus [French translation]. Paris: l’école des loisirs. 

    La Guerra de Espartaco [Spanish translation]. Barcelona: edhasa.

    The Trojan War: A New History [Korean translation]. Seoul: Puriwa Ipari Publishing Company.

  • 2009: The Spartacus War. Simon & Schuster, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK edition).
    Named one of the best books of the year by Books & Culture.

    La Guerra di Spartaco. [Italian translation] Roma-Bari: Laterza.

    Audiobook of The Spartacus War available on audible.com.

  • 2006:  The Trojan War, A New History, Simon & Schuster, USA, paperback edition 2007.

    La Batalla de Salamina [Spanish translation]. Barcelona: Edhasa.

    Saramas Haejan [Korean translation of the Battle of Salamis]. Seoul: Galapagos.

  • 2005: The Battle of Salamis, Paperback edition (Simon & Schuster, USA); Arrow Books/Random House, UK (title: Salamis: The Greatest Naval Battle of the Ancient World, 480 BC).

    I Nafmakhia tis Salaminas [Greek translation]. Athens: Livani Publishing, Organization. 

    La forza e l’astuzia [Italian translation of the Battle of Salamis]. Rome-Bari:Laterza.

  • 2001:  War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War. Co-edited with David McCann. (M.E. Sharpe).
  • 1993:  Fathers and Sons in Athens.  Ideology and Society in the Era of the Pelopon­nesian War (Princeton University Press and Routledge).  Paperback edition (Princeton University Press, 1997).
  • 1991:   Hegemonic Rivalry from Thucydides to the Nuclear Age, co-editor (Westview Press).
  • 1990:  The Anatomy of Error: The Lessons of Ancient Military Disasters for Modern Strategists, co-author (St. Martin’s Press).  Paperback edition, 1992        
  • 1987:  Athens After the Peloponnesian War: Class, Faction and Policy 403-386 B.C. (Cornell University Press and Croom Helm Ltd.).

NON-SCHOLARLY:

  • 2014:  Spartaco! (Laterza), a children’s book based on my The Spartacus War.

Articles and Chapters

  • 2013: “The Classical Greek Polis and Its Government,” in Hans Beck, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Classical Greek Government (Oxford: Blackwell), 22-37.

    “The Antiwar Museum that Wasn’t: Alesia and the Contradictions of the European Heart,” on City Journal, 17 June. 

  • 2012: “Three Giant Warriors in Ancient Anatolia: Perfect leadership lessons from immortal commanders.” NTV Tarih (August) [in Turkish].
  • 2011: “Trojan War: The Myth of Helen and the Anatolian Reality,” NTV Tarih (July) [in Turkish].
  • 2010: “A New Spartacus,” in Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education), January 29, 2010, B12-13.

    “Slave Wars of Greece and Rome,” in Victor Davis Hanson, ed., Makers of Ancient Strategy, From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome. Princeton University Press, 185-205.

    “Anatolian Crossroads,” The New Criterion (October 2010), 30-34.

  • 2009: “Sparta’s Maritime Moment,” in Andrew S. Erickson, Lyle J. Goldstein, and Carnes Lord, eds., China Goes to Sea: Maritime Transformation in Comparative Historical Perspective. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 33-62.

    “Athens as Hamlet: The Irresolute Empire,” in David Edward Tabachnik and Toivo Koivukoski, eds., Enduring Empire: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 215-226.

  • 2008: “Military Education: Models from Antiquity,” Academic Questions 21: 52-61.
  • 2007: “Achilles: Bronze Age Warrior,” MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History 20.1 (Autumn 2007): 18-31.

    “Chapter 4: Combat: (b) Naval Battle and Sieges,” in P. Sabin, H. van Wees, and M. Whitby, eds. The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare. Volume I: Greece, the Hellenistic World, and the Rise of Rome. Cambridge University Press: 2007, 223-247.

  • 2006: “The Resilient West: Salamis without Themistocles, Classical Greece without Salamis, and the West without Greece,” in P.E. Tetlock, R.N. Lebow, and G. Parker, eds. Unmaking the West: Counterfactual Thought Experiments in History (University of Michigan Press), 90-118.
  • “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.
  • “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.
  • “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, 2000) 315-326.
  • “Perspectives on the death of fifth-century Athenian seamen,” in Hans van Wees, ed. War and Violence in Ancient Greece. (Duckworth, 2000), 261-284.
  • “Victory By Guile. Breaking the Siege of Constantinople” in MHQ. The Quarterly Journal of Military History 11.3 (Spring 1999), 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, 1997), 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, 1997), 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, 1997): 141-154.
Klarman Hall
344 McGraw Hall
bss4@cornell.edu
607/255-8862

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Ancient Greek History

Eric Rebillard

Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities

Publications

Books

  • The Early Martyr Narratives: Neither Authentic Accounts Nor Forgeries. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
  • Greek and Latin Narratives about the Ancient Martyrs. Oxford Early Christian Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • Transformations of Religious Practices in Late Antiquity. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014.
  • Christians and their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200-450 CE. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012 (paperback 2016).
  • The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009 [English translation of Religion et sépulture: l’Église, les vivants et les morts dans l’Antiquité tardive (IIIe-Ve siècles). Civilisations et sociétés 115. Paris: Éd. de l’EHESS, 2003].
  • Musarna. 3, La nécropole impériale. Collection de l’École française de Rome 415. Rome: École française de Rome, 2009.
  • In hora mortis: évolution de la pastorale chrétienne de la mort aux IVe et Ve siècles dans l’Occident latin. Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d’Athènes et de Rome 283. Rome: École française de Rome, 1994.

Edited volumes

  • Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Jörg Rüpke. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2015.
  • Les frontières du profane dans l’Antiquité tardive. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Claire Sotinel. Rome: École française de Rome, 2010.
  • Economie et religion dans l’Antiquité tardive. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Claire Sotinel.  Special issue of Antiquité tardive 14 (2006): 15-116.
  • Hellénisme et christianisme. Edited by Michel Narcy and Éric Rebillard. Lille: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2004.
  • Orthodoxie, christianisme, histoire = Orthodoxy, christianity, history. Collection de l’École française de Rome 270. Edited by Susanna Elm, Éric Rebillard and Antonella Romano, Rome: École française de Rome, 2000.
  • L’évêque dans la cité du IVe au Ve siècle: image et autorité. Collection de l’École française de Rome 248. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Claire Sotinel. Rome: École française de Rome, 1998.
Klarman Hall
120 Goldwin Smith Hall
er97@cornell.edu
607/255-8640

Education

Professor Rebillard received his PhD from the Sorbonne (Paris, France) in 1993 and is a former member of the Ecole française de Rome. He came at Cornell in 2004 after having held a research position in the French CNRS between 1996 and 2003.

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Nicole Julia Giannella

Assistant Professor

Publications

“The Cost of Ingratitude: Freedmen, Patrons, and Re-enslavement,” R. MacLean, S. Bell, and D. Borbonus (eds.), Freed Persons in the Roman World: Integration, Diversity, and Representation, forthcoming.

“Two Ex-Slaves of Cicero: Tiro and Chrysippus Beyond Reach,” D. Meticic and J. Rogers (eds.), Working Lives in Ancient Rome, Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming.

“¿Honor entre esclavos?: desigualdad frente a la ley en el Imperio romano,” M. Campagno, J. Gallego, C. García, and R. Payne (eds.), Desigualdades Antiguas. Economía, Cultura y Sociedad en el Oriente Medio y el Mediterráneo, Miño y Dávila Editores, 2023.

“Between Slave Catchers and Slave Harborers: Trust on a Roman Road,” C. Moatti (ed.), The Experience of Mobility: Situations In Between, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2021.

“Free in Fact? Legal Status and State in the Suits for Freedom,” C. Ando and W. Sullivan (eds.), The Discovery of the Fact, University of Michigan Press, 2020.

“The Freedom to Give: The Legal Basis of Seneca’s Treatment of Slaves in De Beneficiis,” Classical Philology 114.1, January 2019.

 

Klarman Hall
Goldwin Smith Hall 125
njg68@cornell.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Classics, University of Southern California, 2014
  • B.A., Political Science and Latin, Vassar College, 2006

 

 

 

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