About Debra Hamel
Debra Hamel 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. Debra is the mother of two preternaturally attractive girls. She writes and blogs from her subterranean lair in North Haven, Connecticut.
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Debra Hamel 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. Debra is the mother of two preternaturally attractive girls. She writes and blogs from her subterranean lair in North Haven, Connecticut.
BOOKS:
- The Battle of Arginusae: Victor at Sea and Its Tragic Aftermath in the Final Years of the Peloponnesian War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)
- Reading Herodotus: A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)
- Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece (Yale University Press, 2003)
- Athenian Generals: Military Authority in the Classical Period (Brill Academic Publishers, 1998).
SELF-PUBLISHED:
- The Twitter Thucydides: An Abbreviated History of the Peloponnesian War for the Modern Age
- Killing Eratosthenes: A True Crime Story From Ancient Athens
- The Twitter Herodotus: An Abbreviated History of the Persians Wars for the Modern Age
- It Was a Dark and Stormy Tweet: Five Hundred 1st Lines in 140 Characters or Less
- The Mutilation of the Herms: Unpacking an Ancient Mystery
- Ancient Greeks in Drag: The Liberation of Thebes and Other Acts of Heroic Trasnvestism
- Socrates at War: The Military Heroics of an Iconic Intellectual
- Prisoners of the Peloponnesian War