Glen Bowersock

“Calendars are the bones of history,” writes Glen W. Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, in his opening lines of a New York Review of Books review of Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire by Paul Kosmin, a...

Wolfgang Günter Lerch reviews the German translation of Professor Glen Bowersock's The Crucible of Islam (Harvard University Press, 2017) in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Lerch writes, "Much of what Bowersock brings is not new, but very...

Writing for the New York Review of Books, Professor Emeritus Glen Bowersock reviews Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha, writing:

“Nur Masalha challenges his readers by the provocative and, it has to be said, wholly indefensible...

Glen W. Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, reviews Josephine Crawley Quinn's In Search of the Phoenicians for the New York Review of Books, writing, "What people call themselves speaks to us memorably about their...

Glen Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, has been designated an Honorary Life Fellow of the American Numismatic Society. The American Numismatic Society is dedicated to the study and public appreciation of coins...

Glen W. Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, reviews What the Qur’an Meant: And Why It Matters by Garry Wills for the New York Review of Books, writing:

“Anyone who follows the news will be aware that the sacred book of...

Peter Brown of the New York Review of Books reviews The Crucible of Islam by Glen Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies. Of the book, Brown writes, "We look into the depths of the crucible itself, to seize, in a true...

Glen Bowersock weighs in on the 2016 Election with a reflection on Cleon, the Donald Trump of fifth century B.C. Athens. Cleon’s fiery rhetoric made him exceptionally persuasive to the people, Bowersock writes:

Cleon's wealth, bluster, ignorance, and...

Glen Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, examines Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World, an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the most recent issue of The New York Review of Books...