Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1952-53 (?)
• Where—near New York City, New York, USA
• Education—B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Ph.D. Yale University
• Currently—lives in Ithaca, New York
Barry S. Strauss is a Professor of History and Classics at Cornell University and chair of its history department. He is an expert on ancient military history and has written or edited numerous books, including The Battle of Salamis (2004), The Trojan War (2006), The Spartacus War (2009), and The Death of Caesar (2015). His books have been translated into six languages.
Strauss holds a B.A. from Cornell and a Ph.D. from Yale and has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the MacDowell Colony for the Arts, the Korea Foundation, and the Killam Foundation of Canada. He is Director of Cornell's Program on Freedom and Free Societies and past Director of its Peace Studies Program.
He lives in Ithaca, New York, with his wife Marcia; the couple has two grown children. His hobbies are rowing, cycling and hiking. He love jazz and opera and watch too much television. (From Wikipedia and the author's website. Retrieved 4/20/2015.)
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