I'm delighted to report that my Hoover colleague (and emeritus professor at Cornell), Barry Strauss, will be guest-blogging this week about this new book of his. Here's the publisher's summary: A new ...

Ancient Rome casts a long shadow over the world. It is the empire against which other powers are compared, its story one of vast expansion and ultimate decline and fall, and a mix of apparently ...

Athens and the Roman Republic may have crumbled thousands of years before today’s ascension of elites, but Prof. Barry Strauss ’74, history, argues those ancient civilizations reveal that “building ...

Remnant sidekick Jack Butler executes a coup, taking over the show from Jonah to host an episode interviewing Cornell University classical historian Barry Strauss about ancient Rome, which he covers ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Catherine Nixey TEN CAESARS Roman Emperors From Augustus to Constantine By Barry Strauss Roman ...

In December 1947, shortly after the United Nations voted to give the Jewish people a state of their own in the soon-to-be-former British Mandate of Palestine, a symbolic act took place in Italy. The ...

History professor Strauss (The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassination) explores the reigns of Rome’s ten most influential emperors in his captivating modern take on ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Barry Strauss is the Corliss Page Dean Senior Fellow at the Hoover ...