Glen Bowersock

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Glen Bowersock is affiliated with the following schools: Princeton University, Harvard University

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According to Wikipedia, Glen Warren Bowersock is a historian of ancient Greece, Rome and the Near East, and former Chairman of Harvard’s classics department. Early life Bowersock was born in Providence, Rhode Island and attended The Rivers School in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. He earned his A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard University , another B.A. with First Class Honors in Literae humaniores from Oxford University ; and his M.A., D.Phil. also at Oxford. His mentor was the renowned Roman historian Ronald Syme.

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The Collapse of Complex Societies (1988) (1770)
Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World (1999) (223)
Greek sophists in the Roman Empire (1969) (221)
Hellenism in Late Antiquity (1990) (219)
Augustus and the Greek world (1965) (178)
Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of Augustus and His Principate (1993) (155)
Edward Gibbon and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1977) (138)
Fiction as History. Nero to Julian (1995) (133)
Julian the Apostate (1998) (113)
Martyrdom and Rome (1995) (89)
A Date in the Eighth Eclogue (1971) (84)
The Vanishing Paradigm of the Fall of Rome (1996) (73)
A Report on Arabia Provincia (1971) (57)
The age of Augustus (1980) (48)
Syria under Vespasian (1973) (42)
Philo and Paul among the sophists : Alexandrian and Corinthian responses to a Julio-Claudian movement (2002) (41)
Arktouros : Hellenic studies presented to Bernard M.W. Knox on the occasion of his 65th birthday (1979) (39)
Martyrdom and Rome by G. W. Bowersock (1995) (37)
Eurycles of Sparta (1961) (37)
From Emperor to Bishop: The Self-Conscious Transformation of Political Power in the Fourth Century A.D. (1986) (36)
Augustus on Aegina (1964) (31)
A New Inscription from Panticapaeum (2006) (31)
The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam (2013) (30)
The Addressee of the Eighth Eclogue: A Response (1978) (30)
Old and New in the History of Judaea (1975) (29)
Interpreting late antiquity : essays on the postclassical world (2001) (28)
Studies in the Greek Historians: Herodian and Elagabalus (1975) (27)
Beloch and the Birth of Demography (1997) (27)
Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam (2006) (26)
Being Greek under Rome. Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic and the Development of Empire (2003) (26)
Selected papers on late antiquity (1990) (25)
The Proconsulate of Albus (1968) (23)
A New Inscription of Arrian (1967) (23)
On the Donation of Constantine (2007) (18)
Artemidorus and the Second Sophistic (2004) (17)
The Greek Renaissance in the Roman Empire. Papers from the Tenth British Museum Classical Colloquium (1991) (17)
Fiction as History (1994) (17)
Julian and Hellenism : an intellectual biography (1983) (14)
A New Antonine Inscription from the Syrian Desert (1976) (12)
The conspiracy of Catiline (1966) (12)
Polytheism and Monotheism in Arabia and the Three Palestines (1997) (12)
Foreign Elites at Rome (2005) (11)
Augustus and the East. The problem of the succession (1984) (11)
The Mechanics of Subversion in the Roman Provinces (1986) (11)
Palestine: Ancient History and Modern Politics (1985) (10)
The Syriac Life of Rabbula and Syrian Hellenism (2000) (10)
Approaches to the second sophistic : papers presented at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (1974) (9)
The Julian Poems of C. P. Cavafy (1981) (9)
Alexander the Great: Coinage, Finances, and Policy (2008) (8)
Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity (2012) (8)
THE BARBARISM OF THE GREEKS (1995) (8)
The New Greek Inscription from South Yemen (1993) (8)
Some Persons in Plutarch's Moralia (1965) (8)
Life of Apollonius (1970) (7)
Philosophy in the Second Sophistic (2002) (7)
From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition (2009) (6)
A.D. Momigliano : studies on modern scholarship (1994) (6)
Black Athena. I. The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985 (1989) (6)
Momigliano's Quest for the Person (1991) (5)
The Personality of Thucydides (1965) (5)
Hellenism in late antiquity: Thomas Spencer Jerome lectures (1996) (5)
Philostratus: Life of Apollonius (1971) (5)
Gibbon on Civil War and Rebellion in the Decline of the Roman Empire (1977) (5)
The Crucible of Islam (2017) (5)
Men and Boys (2009) (4)
God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination by Richard Jenkyns (review) (2015) (4)
Plutarch and the Sublime Hymn of Ofellius Laetus (1982) (4)
1. Tacitus and the Province of Asia (1993) (4)
The Babatha papyri, Masada, and Rome (1991) (4)
The Rediscovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii (2016) (4)
The New Hellenism of Augustan Athens (2002) (4)
Later Greek Literature: The Emperor Julian on his predecessors (1982) (4)
Edward Gibbon, Luminous Historian, 1772-1794. (1988) (4)
III COMPTES RENDUS - The International Role of Late Antique Cyprus (2004) (3)
Cavafy and Apollonios (1983) (3)
Byzantium and the Arabs (1986) (3)
Exploration in North-West Arabia after Jaussen-Savignac (1996) (3)
Auckland Classical Essays (1973) (2)
Infant Gods and Heroes in Late Antiquity: Dionysos’ First Bath (2011) (2)
DIONYSUS AS AN EPIC HERO (2020) (2)
Parabalani : A Terrorist Charity in Late Antiquity (2010) (2)
Helena’s bridle, Ethiopian Christianity, and Syriac apocalyptic (2010) (2)
Nonnosus and Byzantine diplomacy in Arabia (2012) (2)
Eugenia Equini Schneider, Septimia Zenobia Sebaste (2000) (2)
The rich harvest of Near Eastern mosaics (1998) (2)
An Arabian Trinity (1986) (2)
Aristides and the pantomimes (2008) (2)
The Emperor of Roman History (1980) (2)
The Roman Emperor as Russian Tsar: Tacitus and Pushkin (1999) (2)
Rostovtzeff in Madison (1986) (2)
Studies on the Eastern Roman Empire : social, economic and administrative history, religion, historiography (1994) (2)
Lucius Verus in the Near East (2001) (1)
HISTORIOGRAPHY: Herodotus, Alexander, and Rome (2016) (1)
In search of Strabo, with some new light on Mithridates Eupator and his concubine (2008) (1)
A. Spijkerman, The Coins of the Decapolis and Provincia Arabia . Ed. M. Piccirillo. (Studii Biblici Franciscani collectio maior, XXV). Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1978. Pp. xvi + 322, 84 pls. (1982) (1)
A Correction in Strabo Confirmed (1964) (1)
The epigraphy of the emperor Julian (2006) (1)
The literature of the Empire (1985) (1)
The Bar Kokhba War Reconsidered (2020) (1)
THE RISE AND FALL OF A JEWISH KINGDOM IN ARABIA (2018) (1)
The Tremendous, Ferocious Bentley (2011) (1)
Scripta minora . Constitution of the Athenians (1968) (1)
Review Article: The Emperor's Burden (1978) (1)
The civic role of martyrs (1995) (1)
The Arabian Ares (1983) (1)
How Incompatible Worldviews Can Coexist (2014) (1)
Edward Lear in Petra (1990) (1)
Antipater Chaldaeus (1983) (1)
Gibbon and Julian (1977) (1)
A CAMBRIDGE VIEW OF THE SECOND SOPHISTIC (2003) (1)
Local Knowledge and Microidentities (2019) (1)
Hellenika: Essays on Greek History and Politics (1984) (1)
Dirty old town (2003) (1)
More Hadrianic documents from the Judaean Desert, and the Bar Kokhba revolt (2001) (0)
(E.) Bowie and (J.) Elsner Eds. Philostratus. (Greek Culture in the Roman World). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 401. £70. 9780521827201. (2011) (0)
RONALD SYME–A Brief Tribute (1993) (0)
The Hellenistic Leja (2003) (0)
Martyrdom and Rome: Protomartyr (1995) (0)
The heavenly country (1993) (0)
Letter from Glen W. Bowersock to Joshua Lederberg (1995) (0)
Martyrdom and Rome: The making of martyrdom (1995) (0)
J. Matthews, The Roman empire of Ammianus . London: Duckworth, 1989. Pp. xiv + 608. ISBN 0-7156-2246-3. (1990) (0)
Historia contra Mythos: Die Schriftauslegung Diodors von Tarsus und Theodors von Mopsuestia im Widerstreit zu Kaiser Julians und Salustius' allegorischem Mythenverstandnis (review) (2005) (0)
ROSTOVTZEFF AND HARVARD (1996) (0)
Samnium and the Samnites (2008) (0)
Martyrdom and Rome: Select bibliography (1995) (0)
Oral History Interview of G.W. Bowersock, April 22, 2009 (2009) (0)
Tra Oriente e Occidente: M.I. Rostovtzeff ed il mondo mediterraneo - Rostovtzeff's "Birth of the Roman Empire", St. Petersburg (Petrograd) 1918 (2003) (0)
The Nabataeans under Augustus (2019) (0)
NoγaemiΘ—A Note on “An Arabian Trinity” (1986) (0)
Nicole Belayche. Iudaea-Palaestina. The Pagan Cults in Roman Palestine (Second to Fourth Century), (2005) (0)
The written record (1995) (0)
From the Past to the Future through the Present: Conversations with Historians at the Institute for Advanced Study. Princeton, N.J: Institute for Advanced Study, 1992. (1992) (0)
A new funerary epigram from Laodicea ad Lycum (2009) (0)
Julian Polymnia Athanassiadi-Fowden: Julian and Hellenism, an Intellectual Biography. Pp. x + 245. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. £17.50. (1983) (0)
The end of paganism (1998) (0)
Christian Persecution, Martyrdom, and Orthodoxy (review) (2008) (0)
Book Review:Dionysius of Halicarnassus: "On Thucydides." W. Kendrick Pritchett (1976) (0)
Emilio Gabba from an Anglo-american perspective (2015) (0)
N. Kokkinos, The Herodian Dynasty: Origins, Role in Society and Eclipse (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series 30). Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998. Pp. 518. ISBN 1-85075-690-2. £55.00. (1999) (0)
HISTORIOGRAPHY: Rostovtzeff in Madison (2016) (0)
Serial scholars (2002) (0)
Local Knowledge and Microidentities in the Imperial Greek World ed. by Tim Whitmarsh (review) (2013) (0)
Why Yemen Matters: The Heritage of a Land in Crisis (2020) (0)
Documenting the remains at Qusayr ‘Amra (2008) (0)
Early Christianity as historical fiction (2000) (0)
Michonis Lecture. Pagan Angels in Late Antiquity (2015) (0)
The new Inscription from Rasun in Jordan. (1999) (0)
Jan Retsö. The Arabs in Antiquity: Their History from the Assyrians to the Umayyads. London: Routledge Curzon. 2003. Pp. xiii, 684. $100.00 (2004) (0)
Martyrdom and Rome: Preface (1995) (0)
THE VOICE OF GOD (2017) (0)
Biographical Memoirs: Beverly Sills Greenough (2009) (0)
Russell Meiggs (October 20, 1902-June 24, 1989) (1991) (0)
Martyrdom and Rome: Ignatius and IV Maccabees (1995) (0)
Martyrdom and Rome: Martyrdom and suicide (1995) (0)
Ancient Salt: The New Rhetoric and the Old@@@The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World, 300 B.C.-A.D. 300.@@@The Speeches in Vergil's Aeneid.@@@Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry.@@@Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire.@@@Hermogenes and the Renaissance: Seven Ideas of Style. (1974) (0)
Response to L. Di Segni, JRA Suppl. 49, 91-97 The mosaic inscription in the Nile Festival Building at Sepphoris: the House of the daughter of the governor Procopius (A.D. 517-18?) and her husband Asbolius Patricius (2004) (0)
Reviews of Books:The Arabs in Antiquity: Their History from the Assyrians to the Umayyads Jan Retso (2004) (0)
Religion in Early Fourth Century Roman Palestine: The Kfar ʿOthnay Mosaics (2018) (0)
Review of Simon Swain, Hellenism and Empire (1999) (0)
Unquiet flows the don (2009) (0)
Ronald Syme (March 11, 1903-September 4, 1989) (1991) (0)
Gibbon - J. W. Burrow: Gibbon . (Past Masters.) Pp. 117. Oxford University Press, 1985. (1986) (0)
C. Marcius Censorinus, Legatus Caesaris: In Memoriam A. D. Nock (1964) (0)
Martyrdom and Rome: Asia, Aphrodisias, and the Lyon Martyrium (1995) (0)
What the Galatians left behind (1994) (0)
The three Arabias in Ptolemy's Geography (1988) (0)
Book Review:Un port romain du desert: Palmyre et son commerce d'Auguste a Caracalla Javier Teixidor (1987) (0)
Gibbon and the ‘Watchmen of the Holy City’: The Historian and his Reputation 1776‐1815 (2003) (0)

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