Barry Stuart Strauss is Corliss Page Dean Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, and Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies Emeritus at Cornell University. He is also the founder and director of Cornell’s Program on Freedom and Free Societies, which investigates challenges to constitutional liberty at home and abroad, as well as the Corliss Page Dean Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He holds fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Korea Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the American Academy in Rome, and is the recipient of Cornell’s Clark (now Russell) Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is a classicist and a military and naval historian and consultant. As the series editor of Princeton’s Turning Points in Ancient History and author of nine books on ancient history, he is a recognized authority on the subject of leadership and the lessons that can be learned from the experiences of the greatest political and military leaders of the ancient world such as Caesar, Hannibal, and Alexander.
October 2024
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