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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.


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

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BOOKS:

Killing Eratosthenes The Mutilation of the Herms Reading Herodotus Trying Neaira

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