ABOUT DEBRA HAMEL
Debra is the mother of two preternaturally attractive girls and the wife of a mustachioed gadfly. She writes and blogs from her subterranean lair in North Haven, Connecticut.

Debra Hamel
BACKGROUND 
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.)

BOOKS 
Debra's book Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece was published by Yale University Press in 2003 and is now available in paperback. The book was written for a popular audience and has been well received by reviewers.
The Sunday Telegraph calls Trying Neaira a "gripping story of politics, sex and sleaze in ancient Athens...."
The Erotic Review writes that Hamel "turns one of antiquity's more fibrous epochs into a lively and witty slice of history, and gives us a story of cupidity, greed and obduracy, spiced with sexual morsels."

To read more reviews of Trying Neaira click here.

Debra is also the author of Athenian Generals: Military Authority in the Classical Period.
BLOGS 
More recently 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. Debra's love of reading and her experience with reviewing books for an online readership culminated in her writing The BiblioFiles for print publication beginning in 2005.

BUY A FRIEND A BOOK 
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.

INTERVIEWS AND ESSAYS 
You can read a lengthier description of Trying Neaira in this piece by the author written for ReadySteadyBook.

Read an interview with Debra (as well as a review of the book) on Damian McNicholl's Blog.

Read Debra's three-part series as guest blogger at Sphinx Rising: part 1 | part 2 | part 3.

For Chrispian Burks's interview with Debra on the subject of Buy a Friend a Book Week follow one of these links:

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web sites
BOOKS
Trying Neaira
book-blog.com
NEW: Amazon blog!!!
Buy a Friend a Book
The BiblioFiles
Pass the Book

MISCELLANEOUS
dhamel.com
the-deblog
Rawhide

CLASSICS
blogographos
Summer Classics