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Barry S. Strauss (born November 27, 1953) is an American historian. He is a Professor of History and Classics at Cornell University and chair of its history department. == Life and work == 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), ''Masters of Command'' (2013), 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 (advised by Donald Kagan) and has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the American Academy in Rome, 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.〔Cody, Paul (July 9, 1998), (“Classicist and historian studies that elusive thing called peace” ), ''Cornell Chronicle''.〕 Strauss is editor of ''The Princeton History of the Ancient World'', a series of books from Princeton University Press. He sits on the editorial boards of ''MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History'', ''Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society'', ''The International Journal of the Classical Tradition'', and ''Strategika.'' At Cornell, he teaches courses on the history of ancient Greece, war and peace in the ancient world, history of battle, introduction to military history, and specialized topics in ancient history. Strauss is an avid rower. In 1999 he published, ''Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty'' (Scribner). He has appeared in more than a dozen television documentaries. He has published op-ed pieces in the Washington Post, L.A. Times, USA Today, and Newsday, been interviewed on NPR and the BBC, and has been quoted on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and in other major newspapers. He lives in Ithaca, New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barry S. Strauss」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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