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Debra studied classics as an undergraduate at The Johns Hopkins University and again as a graduate student at Yale, where she specialized in ancient history. Since receiving her Ph.D. in 1996 she has published a number of scholarly articles and reviews as well as publications for a general audience, including several articles that have appeared in MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. (For a complete list of her classics publications, click here.) Debra is the mother of two preternaturally attractive girls. She writes and blogs from her subterranean lair in North Haven, Connecticut.
Miscellaneous (external links): CV | Letters to the Editor | Other Publications | Suda On Line Translations
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Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece
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New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003.
From a random review:
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Athenian Generals: Military Authority in the Classical Period. Mnemosyne Supplements 182.
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Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 1998.
"The result is a work of lasting value both for its acute analysis and for its presentation of a body of information that will serve other scholars' interests and purposes. It is thus a worthy addition to the researches of scholars such as W.K. Pritchett and M.H. Hansen, who have done so much to systematize the study of ancient Greek political and military practices."
-- Catherine Rubincam, Phoenix
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"Fate of the Conquered." Military History Quarterly 17.3 (Spring, 2005), 6-13.
"Ancient Greeks in Drag." Military History Quarterly 14.4 (Summer, 2002), 82-88.
"Socrates at War," Military History Quarterly 14.1 (Autumn, 2001) 34-41.
"Coming to Terms with lipotaxion." Greek, Roman, & Byzantine Studies 39 (1998), 361-405.
"Strategoi on the Bema: The Separation of Political and Military Authority in Fourth-Century Athens." The Ancient History Bulletin 9.1 (1995) 25-39.
Review of Perez Zagorin, Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader Princeton and Oxford, 2005. In Military History Quarterly (Forthcoming Spring 2007).
Review of P.J. Rhodes, A History of the Classical Greek World: 478-323 B.C. Malden, MA, Oxford, and Carlton, Victoria, 2005. In Military History Quarterly 18.3 (Spring 2006) 95.
Review of Michael J. Edwards, Lysias. Five Speeches. London, 1999. In Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1999-10-39.
Review of Robert J. Buck, Thrasybulus and the Athenian Democracy: the life of an Athenian statesman. Stuttgart, 1998. In Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1998-12-13.
Review of Michael M. Sage, Warfare in Ancient Greece: a sourcebook. London and New York, 1996. In Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1997.06.01 = print vol. 9.2 (1998) 173-176.
Review of Mark H. Munn, The Defense of Attica: The Dema Wall and the Boiotian War of 378-375 B.C. Berkeley, 1993. In The Journal of Military History 58.1 (1994) 135-136.
In recent years Debra has been concentrating on her slice of cyberspace. She publishes a personal blog at the-deblog.com and has been writing book reviews for publication on her site, book-blog.com, since 2003. Her latest endeavor is TwitterLit, a Twitter-related literary site: click the link for details.
TwitterLit now has a sister site, a "TwitterLit for Kids," called KidderLit.
See the complete list of Debra's web sites in the left sidebar.
 Another recent project of Debra's is Buy a Friend a Book, a web site that urges visitors to buy a friend a book for no good reason during four Buy a Friend a Book Weeks a year -- the first weeks of every January, April, July, and October. Good books, good karma. |
"Cannibals and Brain Stew" at the Bookins blog.
On Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley at the normblog.
On Trying Neaira at ReadySteadyBook.
Interview with Debra (as well as a review of Trying Neaira) on Damian McNicholl's Blog.
Debra's three-part series as guest blogger at Sphinx Rising: part 1 | part 2 | part 3.
On Buy a Friend a Book Week at Readers Unbound.
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