William V. Harris

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William V. Harris

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#40

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According to Wikipedia, William Vernon Harris was the William R. Shepherd Professor of History at Columbia University until December 2017. He is the author of numerous groundbreaking monographs on the Greco-Roman world, he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and he was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2008.

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Ancient Literacy (1989) (212)
War and imperialism in Republican Rome, 327-70 B.C. (1979) (193)
Child-Exposure in the Roman Empire (1994) (190)
Rome in Etruria and Umbria (1971) (180)
Towards a Study of the Roman Slave Trade (1980) (178)
Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity (2001) (140)
Demography, Geography and the Sources of Roman Slaves (1999) (127)
Rethinking the Mediterranean (2006) (115)
The Theoretical Possibility of Extensive Infanticide in the Graeco-Roman World (1982) (91)
Roman Terracotta Lamps: the Organization of an Industry (1980) (83)
The Monetary Systems of the Greeks and Romans (2010) (82)
A Revisionist View of Roman Money (2006) (73)
Rome's Imperial Economy: Twelve Essays (2011) (57)
The Nature of Roman Money (2008) (56)
The Ancient Mediterranean Environment between Science and History (2013) (53)
ROMAN OPINIONS ABOUT THE TRUTHFULNESS OF DREAMS (2003) (48)
Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity (2009) (46)
On War and Greed in the Second Century B.C. (1971) (42)
Mental Disorders in the Classical World (2013) (37)
The inscribed economy : production and distribution in the Roman empire in the light of instrumentum domesticum : the proceedings of a conference held at the American Academy in Rome on 10-11 January, 1992 (1993) (37)
Aelius Aristides between Greece, Rome, and the Gods (2009) (36)
The Mediterranean and Ancient History (2011) (35)
Termite mound building (1956) (35)
Constantine's Dream (2005) (34)
Roman expansion in the west (1989) (31)
Defining and Detecting Mediterranean Deforestation, 800BCE to 700CE (2013) (25)
Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece (2004) (24)
The Imperialism of Mid-Republican Rome (1986) (21)
An Inscription Recording a Proconsul's Visit to Samothrace in 165 A.D. (1992) (19)
The Late Republic (2007) (17)
Moses Finley and politics (2013) (16)
The Development of the Quaestorship, 267–81 b.c. (1976) (16)
Studies in Roman law in memory of A. Arthur Schiller (1986) (16)
The transformations of Vrbs Roma in late antiquity (1999) (15)
On Defining the Political Culture of the Roman Republic: Some Comments on Rosenstein, Williamson, and North (1990) (15)
History, Empathy and Emotions (2010) (15)
Saving the ϕαινόμενα: a note on Aristotle's definition of anger (1997) (14)
Death and Renewal: Sociological Studies in Roman History, II (1986) (13)
Prolegomena to a Study of the Economics of Roman Art (2015) (11)
Lysias III and Athenian beliefs about revenge (1997) (10)
Roman Power: A Thousand Years of Empire (2016) (9)
The spread of Christianity in the first four centuries : essays in explanation (2005) (9)
Between Archaic and Modern: Some Current Problems in the Economic History of the High Roman Empire (2011) (8)
Morris Keith Hopkins, 1934-2004 (2005) (6)
Poverty and Destitution in the Roman Empire (2011) (6)
Trade and the River Po: A Problem in the Economic History of the Roman Empire (2011) (5)
Greek and Roman Hallucinations (2013) (4)
Politics in the Ancient World and Politics (2013) (4)
Thinking about Mental Disorders in Classical Antiquity (2013) (4)
Roman Governments and Commerce : 300 B.C. A.D. 300. (2003) (4)
Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times (2018) (4)
On the Applicability of the Concept of Class in Roman History (2011) (3)
Plato and the deforestation of Attica. (2011) (3)
1 Popular Medicine in the Classical World (2016) (3)
Scatological Asklepios: The Use of Excrement in Graeco-Roman Healthcare (2019) (2)
The heir to ‘Platner-Ashby’ (1995) (2)
Termite research in West Africa. A report on the work carried out by the Termite Research Unit in West Africa under Scheme R.725. 1956-1960. (1960) (2)
Medical Epistemology and Melancholy: Rufus of Ephesus and Miskawayh (2013) (2)
Literacy in Everyday Ancient Life: From Gabii to Gloucestershire (2018) (2)
Jeremy McInerney / Ineke Sluiter (Eds.), Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity. Natural Environment and Cultural Imagination. With the Assistance of Bob Corthals. (Mnemosyne, Supplements, Vol. 393.) Leiden/Boston, Brill 2016 (2018) (2)
ROME AT SEA: THE BEGINNINGS OF ROMAN NAVAL POWER* (2017) (2)
Credit-Money in the Roman Economy (2019) (2)
Ancient Anger: The rage of women (2004) (2)
Reviews of Books:Roman Honor: The Fire in the Bones Carlin A. Barton (2003) (1)
Pain and Medicine in the Classical World* (2018) (1)
What Kind of Environmental History for Antiquity (2013) (1)
A spent inheritance (2003) (1)
The value of utilitarian ethics at the present time (1998) (1)
A Julio-Claudian business family? (2000) (1)
Sofia Piacentin, Financial Penalties in the Roman Republic. A Study of Confiscations of Individual Property, Public Sales, and Fines (509–58 BC). (Mnemosyne Supplement, Vol. 447.) Leiden, Brill 2021 (2022) (0)
The German Landscape and Julio-Claudian Imperialism (2021) (0)
17. Retrospect and Prospect (2001) (0)
9. The Roman Version (2001) (0)
8. Living Together in the Classical Polis (2001) (0)
Simon Hornblower / Giulia Biffis (Eds.), The Returning Hero. Nostoi and Traditions of Mediterranean Settlement. Oxford, Oxford University Press 2018 (2020) (0)
Book Reviews (2008) (0)
This is your tour guide (2004) (0)
Toni Ñaco del Hoyo / Fernando López Sánchez (Eds.), War, Warlords, and Interstate Relations in the Ancient Mediterranean. (Impact of Empire, Vol. 28.) Leiden, Brill 2018 (2019) (0)
The Impérialism of mid-republican Rome : the proceedings of a conference held at the American Academy in Rome, November 5-6, 1982 (1984) (0)
H. H. Scullard, The Etruscan Cities and Rome (Aspects of Greek and Roman Life). London: Thames and Hudson, 1967. Pp. 320, 64 pages of plates and 27 figs. £2 17 s . 6 d . (1969) (0)
The Romans against each other, from republic to monarchy (2016) (0)
14. Anger as a Sickness of the Soul in Classical Greece (2001) (0)
2. Science and Feelings (2001) (0)
Steinby's LTUR III and IV (2001) (0)
II. Greek and Roman Dreams that Were Really Dreamt (2009) (0)
5. A Tradition of Self-Control (2001) (0)
The finale of Roman topography (2003) (0)
The Romans against each other: from empire to nation? (2016) (0)
Manteis and Medicine (2020) (0)
Marginal Land and Population Pressure in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BC to 600 AD (2018) (0)
IV. Naturalistic Explanations (2009) (0)
1. Striving for Anger Control (2001) (0)
Walter Scheidel (Ed.), The Science of Roman History. Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press 2018 (2018) (0)
Introduction: Then and Now (2009) (0)
Perchance to Dream (2012) (0)
M. H. Crawford, The Roman Republic . London: Fontana-Collins, 1978. Pp. 224. (1980) (0)
Help in understanding the Roman imperial economy (2014) (0)
III. Greek and Roman Opinions about the Truthfulness of Dreams (2009) (0)
10. Restraining the Angry Ruler (2001) (0)
Richard E. Mitchell. Patricians and Plebeians: The Origin of the Roman State. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1990. Pp. xvi, 276. $28.95 (1992) (0)
Introduction: Pain and Pleasure as a Field of Historical Study (2018) (0)
Sviatoslav Dmitriev. The Greek Slogan of Freedom and Early Roman Politics in Greece. (2012) (0)
4. The Minds of Ancient Authors (2001) (0)
15. Can You Cure Emotions? Hellenistic and Roman Anger Therapy (2001) (0)
7. The Heroes and the Archaic State (2001) (0)
Ingo Gildenhard / Ulrich Gotter / Wolfgang Havener et al. (Eds.), Augustus and the Destruction of History. The Politics of the Past in Early Imperial Rome. (Cambridge Classical Journal Supplements, Vol. 41.) Cambridge, Cambridge Philological Society 2019 (2020) (0)
Retrospect and some reflections (2016) (0)
Approaching literacy through inkpots (2019) (0)
Woodland and Deforestation in the Ancient Mediterranean (2011) (0)
The Problem Did the ancient Mediterranean world experience real deforestation ? (0)
Emma Dench, Empire and Political Cultures in the Roman World. (Key Themes in Ancient History.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2018 (2020) (0)
3. The Greek and Latin Terminology (2001) (0)
ANNIBALE CARRACCI AND A PROPHETIC HEAD (1982) (0)
Defining and disputing environmental change (2020) (0)
Adriaan Rademaker: Sophrosyne and the Rhetoric of Self-Restraint. Polysemsy & persuasive use of an ancient Greek value term (2011) (0)
E. Richardson, The Etruscans, their Art and Civilization . Chicago: University Press, 1964. Pp. xviii + 285 with 48 plates. $7.95. (1967) (0)
Epidemic Smallpox, Roman Demography, and the Rapid Growth of Early Christianity, 160 Ce to 310 Ce Introduction and Motivation for Research the Great Pestilence Hypotheses of a Plague-christianity Interaction Evidence of Infant Exposure (0)
Epidemic Smallpox, Roman Demography, and the Rapid Growth of Early Christianity, 160 Ce to 310 Ce Introduction and Motivation for Research the Great Pestilence Hypotheses of a Plague-christianity Interaction Evidence of Infant Exposure (0)
12. Family and Friends (2001) (0)
Saskia Hin: The Demography of Roman Italy. ‘Population Dynamics in an Ancient ConquestSociety’ 201 BCE – 14 CE. (2017) (0)
Inscriptions, their readers, and literacy (2009) (0)
Graeco-Roman Literacy and Comparative Method (1990) (0)
Production, Distribution, and Instrumentum Domesticum (2011) (0)
Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece by Rosalind Thomas (review) (2018) (0)
The long-term evolution of Roman power (2016) (0)
The Romans against outsiders, 400 bc to ad 16 (2016) (0)
The Romans against each other in two long crises (2016) (0)
Lives in the Balance (1997) (0)
11. A Thesis about Women and Anger (2001) (0)
M. I. Rostovtzeff, E. Bickerman, and the history of scholarship (2016) (0)
Trade [70–192 AD] (2011) (0)
6. Philosophies of Restraining Rage (2001) (0)
The Romans against outsiders, ad 337 to 641 (2016) (0)
16. From Sickness to Sin: Early Christianity and Anger (2001) (0)
A Strange Fact about Shipboard Coin Hoards Throus Light on the Roman Emprire's Financial System (2019) (0)
I. From Epiphany to Episode: A Revolution in the Description of Dreams (2009) (0)
The Romans against outsiders, ad 16 to 337 (2016) (0)
Short Reviews (1961) (0)
The Roman Economy in the Late Republic, 133–31 BC (2011) (0)
Religious Studies Lecture and Workshop 2012 (2012) (0)

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