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.

He lives in Ithaca, New York.

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