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Dr. Jan Gabbert
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PUBLICATIONS (Selected)

Books

Antigonus II Gonatas: A Political Biography (Routledge, 1997)

 

A Classics Compendium: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Classical Antiquity But Were Afraid You Didn't Have Time to Find Out! (Kendall/Hunt, l986, rev. Greyden Press, 1991)

 

Compendium of Ancient and Medieval History (Greyden Press, 1991)

 

Classics Handbook (2 Vols.), Wright State University , 1980.

 

 

Articles

 

“The Career of Olympiodorus of Athens (ca. 340-270 B.C.)”, in Ancient World 27 (1996),

59-66.

 

Articles for the International Biographical Dictionary , Vol. I, The Ancient World (Greenwood Publishing Group) (Andrew Traver, Ed.): Alexander the Great; Antigonus II Gonatas; Antigonus III Doson; Aratus; Cassander; Demetrius I Poliorcetes; Philip II; Pyrrhus. submitted March 1999.

Published as From Polis to Empire - the Ancient World, c. 800 B.C. - A.D. 500: A Biographical Dictionary ( London , 2002)

 

“Antigonus II Gonatas,” article for The International Military Encyclopedia (Norman Tobias, Ed.) submitted December 1998.

 

“The Greco-Persian Wars” article for the International Military and Defense Encyclopedia published by Pergamon Brassey's International Defense Publishers, London and Washington (1994)

“Alexander the Great” article for the International Military and Defense Encyclopedia (above)

“The Language of Citizenship in Antigonid Macedonia ,” in Ancient History Bulletin 2 (1988), 10-11.

“The Anarchic Dating of the Chremonidean War,” in Classical Journal 82 (1987), 230-235.

“Piracy in the Early Hellenistic Period: A Career Open to Talents,” in Greece and Rome 33 (1986), 156-163.

“Pragmatic Democracy in Hellenistic Athens ,” in Ancient World 13 (1986), 29-33.

“The Grand Strategy of Antigonos II Gonatas and the Chremonidean War,” in Ancient World 8 (1983), 129-136.

 

 

 

 

Reviews

 

Reviewer for CHOICE, May 2003 - present (Am. Library Assn) Hoyos, Hannibal's Dynasty, Sept 2003; Mayor, Greek Fire, May 2004; Anson, Eumenes of Cardia, June 2004; Chaniotis, War in the Hellenistic World, April 2005; Fox, Long March, 2005; Carey, Warfare in Ancient World, March 2006; Bagnall, Peloponnesian War, August, 2006; Habicht, Hellenistic Monarchies, Sept 2006; Garland, Celebrity in Antiquity, Mar. 2007.

 

Prepublication review for Journal of Ancient Military Studies - “Combined Arms…” August, 2004

 

Review of Kagan, The Peloponnesian War, for H-Net reviews, October, 2004

 

[prepublication review for journal Hesperia] “Strabo 10.2.4 and the Foundation of New Pleuron” January 2003

 

Review of Charles D. Hamilton and Peter Krentz (Eds.) Polis and Polemos: Essays on

Politics, War, and History in Ancient Greece in Honor of Donald Kagan , in Bryn Mawr

Classical Review (electronic journal) February 1998.

 

[prepublication review for University of Michigan Press ] Frank Santi Russell, Information

Gathering and Intelligence in the Greek World, ca. 800-322 B.C . Spring 1997.

 

Prepublication review of Pomeroy, etal . Ancient Greece : A Political, Social, and

Cultural History , for Oxford University Press, January 1997.

 

Review of Lionel Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World . 2nd Ed.

Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1995, for Mariner's Mirror (1997).

 

Prepublication review of (____) “Revolution in Tactics: Greek Warfare in the Early

Fifth Century” for Journal of Military History , August 1993.

 

Prepublication review of (____) “Alexander's Stratagem at the Granicus Battle” for

Journal of Military History , March 1993.

Review of F. L. Holt, Alexander the Great and Bactria , in the American Historical Review, June 1990, 794-795.

Review of R. K. Sinclair, Democracy and Participation in Athens , in Ploutarchos 5 (May 1989), 42-44.

Review of Naphtali Lewis, Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt : Case Studies in the Social History of the Hellenistic World ( Oxford , 1986); in the New England Classical Newsletter, Vol. 16 (1988),38-39.