Classics

Main Interests: Greek history to the end of the fourth century B.C.; international relations throughout history

Publications include The Great Dialogue: A History of Greek Political Thought from Homer to Polybius, The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1969, The Archidamian War, Cornell University Press, (Ithaca, 1974, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, Cornell University Press, (Ithaca, 1981), The Fall of the Athenian Empire, Cornell University Press, (Ithaca, 1987), On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace, Doubleday, New York, 1995, While America Sleeps, with Frederick W. Kagan, 2000, The Peloponnesian War, 2003.