J.E. Lendon is a historian of the ancient world and a professor of history at the University of Virginia, specializing in Greek and Roman military history. He contributed essays and book reviews to The Weekly Standard between 2006 and 2016, covering topics in classical antiquity, the Roman Empire, and ancient warfare. He is the author of several books, including *Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Antiquity* and *Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins*.
It is a symptom of the deplorable state of intellectual life today that readers of this magazine can guess the lineaments of the story told in Hannibal the instant they read early in its pages that classical Carthage, the city on whose behalf the great captain of the title fought against Rome, was…
It is a symptom of the deplorable state of intellectual life today that readers of this magazine can guess the lineaments of the story told in Hannibal the instant they read early in its pages that classical Carthage, the city on whose behalf the great captain of the title fought against Rome, was…
A mighty republic, having fought a considerable war to a victorious end, vindicated its plighted word by removing its arms from the realm where so many of its young men had fallen for the liberty of strangers. But then, compelled to regard fresh wars arising in that place—infestations of new…
Drawing all eyes willing or not, like a reeling beggar on a subway platform, the Olympics have become such a familiar spectacle that we rarely stop to think about their oddness. But our Olympics are, in fact, a bizarre piece of Victorian historical reenactment, a recreation, after 1,500 years of…
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