Barry S. Strauss is a Professor of History and Classics at Cornell University. He is an expert on ancient military history and has written or edited numerous books, including The Battle of Salamis (2004), The Trojan War (2006), and The Spartacus War (2009).
Strauss holds a Ph.D. from Yale and has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, The MacDowell Colony for the Arts, the Korea Foundation, and the Killam Foundation of Canada. He is the recipient of the Clark Award for excellence in teaching from Cornell. He is Director of Cornell's Program on Freedom and Free Societies and Past Director of Cornell's Peace Studies Program.
His books have been translated into six languages.
Western Civilization, Beyond Boundaries, Volume 2: Since 1560 (6th Edition, 2009); With Thomas F. X. Noble, Duane Osheim, Kristen Neuschel, Elinor Accampo, David D. Roberts, and William B. Cohen.
Athens After the Peloponnesian War: Class, Faction, and Policy, 403-386 B.C. (1987); Cornell University Press.
The Anatomy of Error: American Military Disasters and Their Lessons for Modern Strategists (1990); Co-author: Josiah Ober.
Fathers and Sons in Athens: Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War (1993); Routledge.
Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty Scribner (1999).
The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece ... and Western Civilization (2004); Simon & Schuster (Named one of the best books of 2004 by the Washington Post).
The Trojan War: A New History (2006); Simon & Schuster.
The Spartacus War (2009); Simon & Schuster.
As editor or co-editor:
Hegemonic Rivalry: From Thucydides to the Nuclear Age (1991; Series: New Approaches to Peace and Security); Co-edited with R. New Lebow.
War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War (2001), East Gate Books Co-edited with David R. McCann.