Contributors

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and emeritus professor of Classics at California State University, Fresno. He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Dis- tinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches courses in military history and classical culture. He is the author of many books, including A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War (Random House, 2005); Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power (Doubleday, 2001); The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Pres- ent Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny (Free Press, 1999); Hoplites: The Classical Greek Battle Experience (Routledge, 1993); The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece (Knopf, 1989); Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization (Free Press, 1995); and Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece (University of California Press, 1983).

David L. Berkey is assistant professor in the Department of History at California State University, Fresno. He received his doctorate in Classics and ancient history in 2001 from Yale University and his bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in international studies in 1989.

Adrian Goldsworthy was educated at St. John’s College, Oxford, and is currently Visiting Fellow at Newcastle University. His doctoral thesis was published in the Oxford monographs series under the title The Roman Army at War, 100 bc–ad 200. He was a Junior Research Fellow at Cardiff University and subsequently an assistant professor in the University of Notre Dame’s London program. He now writes full time. His most recent books include Caesar: The Life of a Colossus (Yale University Press, 2006) and How Rome Fell: The Death of a Super- power (Yale University Press, 2009).

Peter J. Heather is professor of medieval European history at King’s College, London. He was born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and educated at Maidstone Grammar School and New College, Ox- ford. He was awarded a postdoctoral degree by the History Faculty of Oxford University. He has since taught at University College, London, Yale University, and Worcester College, Oxford.

Tom Holland is the author of three highly praised works of history. The first, Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic, won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. His book on the Greco-Persian wars, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, won the Anglo-­Hellenic League’s Runciman Award in 2006. His latest book, The Forge of Christendom: The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West, was published in the spring of 2009. He has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Virgil for the BBC. He is cur- rently working on a translation of Herodotus for Penguin Classics. In 2007 he was awarded the 2007 Classical Association prize, given to “the individual who has done most to promote the study of the language, literature and civilisation of Ancient Greece and Rome.”

Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale Uni- versity. He has won teaching awards at Cornell University and at Yale, and was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2002. He was named the Jefferson Lecturer by the National Endowment for the Hu- manities in 2004. Among his publications are a four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, and On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace. He is also co- author of The Western Heritage and The Heritage of World Civilizations.

John W. I. Lee is associate professor of history at the University of Cali- fornia, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. in history from Cornell University. He is the author of A Greek Army on the March: Soldiers and viii Contributors Survival in Xenophon’s Anabasis (Cambridge University Press, 2007). He has also published on women in ancient Greek armies, on the Persian army in Herodotus, and on ancient soldiers’ memoirs. Lee is currently working on a new book that examines warfare and culture in the eastern Aegean and along the west coast of Anatolia, from the Ionian Revolt (499–494 BC) to the fourth century BC.

Susan Mattern is professor of history at the University of Georgia. Her most recent book is Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), a study of the medical practice of the ancient physician Galen, based on his stories about his patients. She is also the author of Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate (University of California Press, 1999; now in paperback) and co-author of The Ancient Mediterranean World from the Stone Age to a.d. 600 (Oxford University Press, 2004). She is now working on a biography of Galen.

Barry Strauss is professor of Classics and history and chair of the His- tory Department at Cornell University, as well as director of the Program on Freedom and Free Societies. He is the author of six books, including The Battle of Salamis, named one of the best books of 2004 by the Washington Post, and The Trojan War: A New History, a main selection of the History Book Club. His most recent book, The Spartacus War, appeared in March 2009. He is series editor of Princeton History of the Ancient World and serves on the editorial boards of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society, and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition. He is the recipient of the Heinrich Schliemann Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, and Cornell’s Clark Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Ian Worthington is Frederick A. Middlebush Professor of History at the University of Missouri. Previously he taught for ten years in the Classics Department at the University of New England and the

Contributors ix University of Tasmania, Australia. He is author or editor of fourteen books and more than eighty articles. His most recent publications include the biographies Alexander the Great: Man and God (Pearson, 2004) and Philip II of Macedonia (Yale University Press, 2008), and the Blackwell Companion to Greek Rhetoric (Oxford University Press, 2006). He is currently writing a book on Demosthenes, editing the Blackwell Companion to Ancient Macedonia, and serving as editor-in- chief of Brill’s New Jacoby. In 2005 he won the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creativity in the Humanities and in 2007 the Student-Athlete Advisory Council Most Inspiring Professor Award, both at the University of Missouri.

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