#  Paul J. Kosmin 

Philip J. King Professor of Ancient History

 

 

 



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Research Interests: Greek history (especially Hellenistic); Greek historiography (especially Herodotus, Polybius, 1 and 2 Maccabees); ancient kingship and imperialism (Near Eastern, Graeco-Macedonian, and Roman); ancient ethnography, geography, and chronology; eastern Mediterranean interactions; Second Temple Judaism; epigraphy