Glen Bowersock

Glen Bowersock

Glen Bowersock (born January 12, 1936) is a contemporary American scholar of the ancient world and the history of ancient Greece, Rome and the Near East.

Bowersock earned his A.B. "summa cum laude" from Harvard University (1957), another B.A. with First Class Honors in "Literae humaniores" from Oxford University (1959); and his M.A., D.Phil. (1962) also at Oxford. Since that time Bowersock has received numerous honorary degrees, including: University of Strasbourg (Sciences Humaines), "Docteur honoris causa" (1990), Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris), "Docteur honoris causa" (1999), University of Athens, "Doctor honoris causa" (2005). He is also an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford (2004) at which he was once a Rhodes Scholar. He has served as Lecturer in Ancient History, Balliol, Magdalen, and New College, Oxford (1960-62), Professor of Classics and History, Harvard University (1962-80) (full Professor from 1969).

Glen Bowersock was Professor of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1980 until his retirement in 2006. He is the author of over a dozen books and has published over 200 articles on Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern history and culture as well as the classical tradition.

Bowersock formerly served as Professor of Classics and History at Harvard University. During his career at Harvard (1962 to 1980), he served as Professor of Classics and History; Chairman of the Classics Department; and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Bowersock was awarded the James Henry Breasted Prize of the American Historical Association for his book "Hellenism in Late Antiquity". A symposium in his honor was held at Princeton University on April 7, 2006, under the title "East and West: A Conference in Honor of Glen W. Bowersock", the proceedings of which will be published by the Harvard University Press in late 2008.

elected Works

* [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/L183.html "Xenophon"] , translated with E. C. Marchant, Harvard University Press, 1925
* "Augustus and the Greek World" (Oxford, 1965)
* "Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire" (Oxford, 1969)
* [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/BOWJUL.html "Julian the Apostate"] , Harvard University Press, 1978
* "Hellenism in Late Antiquity" [Jerome Lectures] (Michigan and Cambridge U.P., 1990)
* " [http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0489n6b4/ Fiction as History, from Nero to Julian] " [Sather Classical Lectures] (University of California Press, 1994)
* "Martyrdom and Rome" [Wiles Lectures] (Cambridge University Press, 1995);
* [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/BOWROM.html "Roman Arabia"] , Harvard University Press, 1998
* [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/BOWLAT.html "Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World"] edited with Peter Brown and Oleg Grabar, Harvard University Press, 1999
* [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/BOWINX.html "Interpreting Late Antiquity"] , Harvard University Press, 2001
* [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/BOWMOS.html "Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam"] , Harvard University Press, 2006
* [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/VALDON.html"On the Donation of Constantine"] , translation, Harvard University Press, 2007

References

* IAS homepage [http://www.hs.ias.edu/bowersock/bowersock.htm]
* Bowersock's bibliography, 1961-present [http://www.hs.ias.edu/bowersock/bowersockbiblio.htm]

External links

* [http://www.nybooks.com/authors/3338 Bowersock author page and archive] from "The New York Review of Books"


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