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“A New Spartacus," The Chronicle Review, January 24, 2010

 

“Carved in Stone,” [Review of Judith Dupré, Monuments. America’s History in Art and Memory, New York: Random House, 2007] in The New Criterion 26.2 (March 2008) 69-71.

“Herodotus’s Wheel” [Review of Robert Strassler, ed. The Landmark Herodotus. New York: Pantheon, 2007], The New Criterion 26.3 (October 2008): 1-5.

 

Barry Strauss on 300 and Thermopylae
Barry Strauss discusses 300 for NPR's On Point. Download the podcast.

Barry Strauss is interviewed on the movie 300 for the Denver Post.

“Classic Spin,” [Review of Paul Cartledge, Thermopylae: The Battle that Changed the World. London: Macmillan, 2006], The New Criterion 25.7 (March 2007): 72-75. (Download the review as a PDF.)

 

War
“Why is Troy Still Burning?” Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society, volume VIII number 1, (September/October 2006).

Op-Ed: Shifting Sands I: The prose of the Iliad and the fall of Troy offer lessons for our war in Baghdad. The Free Lance Star, September 17, 2006.

Admiral Yi and the Turtle Boats in “Korea’s Legendary Admiral:” MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Summer 2005 (Volume 17, Number 4: 52-61).

"The Agony of War Under Oars," Naval History (February 2005): 39-42.

"Go Tell the Spartans," MHQ, The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Autumn 2004 (Volume 17, Number 1: 16-25).

"Flames Over Athens," a selection from The Battle of Salamis, Arion, A Journal of Humanities and the Classics(Third Series, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring/Summer 2004: 101-116.)

"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.

"Rome’s Persian Mirage” in MHQ. The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Autumn 1999: 18-27.

 

Citizen-Soldier
"Citizen-Soldier", Parameters. US Army War College Quarterly, vol. XXXIII, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 66-77. Thoughts on Citizen-Soldiers

Politics
"In the Shadow of the Fortress,” in Toivo Koivukoski & David Tabachnick, eds. Confronting Tyranny: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, 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.)

 

Education
"The Scholar and Teacher,” An Appreciation of Donald Kagan, the 2005 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities.

“The Black Phalanx: African-Americans and the Classics After the Civil War,” Arion, A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, Third Series 12.3 (Winter 2005): 39-64.

"The Rebirth of Narrative,” Historically Speaking 6.6 (July/August 2005): 1-5.

 

Reviews
J.E. Lendon, Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005 in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2006.02.14.

"A War Without Heroes," review of Victor Davis Hanson, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. The New Criterion

NPR Interview on Alexander the Great, Talk of the Nation, November 25, 2004

R. Balot, Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. In Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.01.07.