Debra Hamel

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Debra Louise Hamel (* 1964 in New Haven ) is an American ancient historian .

Debra Hamel studied at Johns Hopkins University from 1985 to 1989 and graduated with a BA in Classics with Departmental and General Honors . This was followed by a degree at Yale University . Here Hamel acquired a Master of Arts in Classical Philology in 1993 . Three years later, she obtained her doctorate with a dissertation on Athenian Strategoi: The Extent and Exercise of Authority in the Military Sphere, 501 / 0-322 / 1 . Between 1998 and 2001 Hamel was visiting professor at Wesleyan University several times .

Debra Hamel is primarily concerned with Greek law and Greek military history, Greek literature and Roman history. She is particularly known for her book Der Fall Neaira , published in 2003 . The true story of a hetaera in ancient Greece , which was well received in the professional world.

Hamel lives in North Haven with her husband and two daughters .

Fonts

  • Athenian Generals. Military Authority in the Classical Period. Brill, Leiden u. a. 1998, ISBN 90-04-10900-5 . ( Mnemosyne Supplementum 182)
  • Ancient Greeks in Drag. The Liberation of Thebes and Other Acts of Heroic Transvestism. Self-published, 2002.
  • The Neaira case. The true story of a hetaera in ancient Greece. Primus, Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-89678-255-X
    English original: Trying Neaira. The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece. Yale University Press, New Haven / London 2003.
  • The Mutilation of the Herms. Unpacking an Ancient Mystery. CreateSpace, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4750-5193-3 .
  • Reading Herodotus. A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2012, ISBN 978-1-4214-0656-5 .
  • Reading Herodotus. A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History. Self-published, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4214-0656-5 .
  • Prisoners of the Peloponnesian War. Self-published, 2013.
  • Socrates at War. The Military Heroics of an Iconic Intellectual. Self-published, 2013.
  • It Was a Dark and Stormy Tweet. Five Hundred 1st Lines in 140 Characters or Less. Self-published, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4995-0793-5 .
  • The Battle of Arginusae: Victory at Sea and its Tragic Aftermath in the Final Years of the Peloponnesian War. Witness to Ancient History. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2015, ISBN 978-1-4214-1681-6 .
  • Killing Eratosthenes. A True Crime Story From Ancient Athens. Self-published, 2016, ISBN 978-1-5239-9569-1 .
  • The Twitter Thucydides. An Abbreviated History of the Peloponnesian War for the Modern Age. Self-published, 2017, ISBN 978-1-976532-56-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "the best presentation of Neaira at the moment", Kai Brodersen in Antiphon, Against the Stepmother and Apollodorus, Against Neaira (Demosthenes 59). Women in court , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2004, p. 154.
personal data
SURNAME Hamel, Debra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamel, Debra Louise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH New Haven