Barry Strauss

Barry Strauss este profesor de istorie la Cornell University. A obtinut un doctorat la Yale University si a primit premiul Clark pentru excelenta didactica la Cornell. Expert in istorie militara antica si autor a numeroase carti, printre care: Athens after the Peloponnesian War: Class, Faction, and Policy, 403-386 B.C. (1987), The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece – and Western Civilization (2004), The Trojan War: A New History (2006) si The Spartacus War (2009). De acelasi autor, la Editura Polirom au mai aparut Mari comandanti. Alexandru, Hannibal, Cezar si arta conducerii (2012, 2022) si Zece cezari. Imparatii romani de la Augustus la Constantin cel Mare (2021).