Kurt A. Raaflaub

About the Author

Kurt A. Raaflaub is the David Herlihy University Professor and Professor of Classics and History Emeritus at Brown University. His previous works include The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece (2004), War and Peace in the Ancient World (Blackwell, 2006), Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece show more (with J. Ober and R. W. Wallace, 2007), Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modem Societies (with R. J. A. Talbert, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), and The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy: A Politico-cultural Transformation and Its Interpretations (with J. Arnason and P. Wagner, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). His numerous publications include authorship or editorship of 20 scholarly books, in addition to more than 120 articles in journals and essay collections. show less

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Ancient World: Comparative Histories

Works by Kurt A. Raaflaub

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Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of Augustus and His Principate (1990) — Editor — 44 copies

A Companion to Archaic Greece (2009) — Editor — 43 copies

War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, The Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica (1999) — Editor — 36 copies

Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) — Editor; Contributor — 36 copies

War and Peace in the Ancient World (Ancient World: Comparative Histories) (2007) — Editor — 19 copies

Social Struggles in Archaic Rome: New Perspectives on the Conflict of the Orders (1986) — Editor — 18 copies

Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens (1999) — Editor — 14 copies

The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece (1985) 14 copies

The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy: A Politico-cultural Transformation and Its Interpretations (Ancient… (2013) — Editor — 11 copies

Epic and History (2009) — Editor — 11 copies

Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World (2013) — Editor — 8 copies

Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies (Ancient World: Comparative Histories) (2010) — Editor — 8 copies

Peace in the ancient world : concepts and theories (2016) 7 copies

The Adventure of the Human Intellect: Self, Society, and the Divine in Ancient World Cultures (Ancient World:… (2016) — Editor — 5 copies

More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis (Historia - Einzelschriften) (1996) — Editor — 2 copies

Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis (Historia - Einzelschriften) (1995) — Editor — 2 copies

Studien zum attischen Seebund 1 copy

Politisches Denken und Krise der Polis. Athen im Verfassungskonflikt des späten 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Schriften des… (1992) 1 copy

Egyptian Stories: A British Egyptological Tribute to Alan B. Lloyd on the Occasion of His Retirement (Alter Orient Und… (2007) 1 copy

Democracy 2500?: Questions and Challenges (Colloquia and Conference Papers, No. 2) (1997) — Editor — 1 copy

Vol. 31 (1997) "Politics and Interstate Relations in the World of Early Greek Poleis: Homer and Beyond" 1 copy

Zum Freiheitsbegriff der Griechen 1 copy

Dignitatis Contentio: Studien zur Motivation und politischen Taktik im Bürgerkrieg ZwischenCaesar und Pompeius 1 copy

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The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works (0058) — Editor — 383 copies, 3 reviews

The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought (2000) — Contributor — 77 copies, 2 reviews

Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece (2013) — Contributor — 67 copies

A Companion to the Roman Republic (2006) — Contributor — 65 copies

A Companion to the Classical Greek World (2006) — Contributor — 61 copies

A Companion to Ancient Epic (2005) — Contributor — 45 copies

The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles (2007) — Contributor — 40 copies

A Companion to Julius Caesar (2009) — Contributor — 34 copies

A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought (2009) — Contributor — 31 copies

Demokratia: A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern (1996) — Contributor — 29 copies

Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstitution of American Democracy (1994) — Contributor — 27 copies

A new companion to Homer (1997) — Contributor — 24 copies

Brill's Companion to Thucydides (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies) (2006) — Contributor — 21 copies

Ancient Greece: From the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer (Edinburgh Leventis Studies EUP) (2006) — Contributor — 21 copies

A Companion to Tragedy (2005) — Contributor — 19 copies

Brill's Companion to Herodotus (2002) — Contributor — 19 copies

Transitions to Empire: Essays in Greco-Roman History, 360-146 B.C., in Honor of E. Badian (Oklahoma Series in Classical (1996) — Contributor — 17 copies

The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece (1997) — Contributor — 16 copies

A Companion to Ancient Greek Government (2013) — Contributor — 15 copies

Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient Greece (2003) — Contributor — 14 copies

Helots and Their Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures (2004) — Contributor — 10 copies

Ancient History: Recent Work and New Directions (1997) — Contributor — 10 copies

The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar (2017) — Contributor — 10 copies

A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) (2014) — Contributor — 10 copies

Interpreting the Athenian empire (2009) — Contributor — 9 copies

Augustus (Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World) (2009) — Contributor — 8 copies

Citizens of Discord: Rome and Its Civil Wars (2010) — Contributor — 8 copies

Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence (1998) — Contributor — 7 copies

War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War (East Gate Book) (2000) — Contributor — 7 copies

Federalism in Greek Antiquity (2015) — Contributor — 7 copies

Polis and Politics: Studies in Ancient Greek History (2000) — Contributor — 6 copies

Athenian Democracy at War (2018) — Foreword — 6 copies

Ex Oriente Lex: Near Eastern Influences on Ancient Greek and Roman Law (2015) — Editor — 5 copies

Brill's Companion to Sophocles (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies) (2012) — Contributor — 5 copies

Caesar Against Liberty? Perspectives on His Autocracy Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 11 (ARCA, Classical and… (2003) — Contributor — 5 copies

Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)… (2006) — Contributor — 5 copies

Thucydides between history and literature (2013) — Contributor — 5 copies

The Children of Herodotus: Greek and Roman Historiography and Related Genres (2008) — Contributor — 4 copies

Free Speech In Classical Antiquity (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum) (2004) — Contributor — 4 copies

Gesetzgebung in antiken Gesellschaften : Israel, Griechenland, Rom (2007) — Contributor — 4 copies

Arktouros: Hellenic Studies Presented to Bernard M. W. Knox on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (1979) — Contributor — 3 copies

Arethusa (vol 20 no 1 and 2): Herodotus and the Invention of History (1987) — Contributor — 3 copies

How to Do Things with History: New Approaches to Ancient Greece (2018) — Contributor — 2 copies

Intentional History: Spinning Time in Ancient Greece (2010) — Contributor — 1 copy

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