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JAMES ROMM is James H. Ottaway Jr. Associate Professor of Classics at Bard College. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His books include The Life of Alexander the Great and The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought.

Books by James Romm

Dying Every Day

From acclaimed classical historian and author of Ghost on the Throne and The Landmark Arrian--a work of history on the grand scale: a high stakes drama full of murder, madness, tyranny, perversion, and "a plot that is hot, simply teeming with sex...[and in which] everyone ends in mincemeat."

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The Landmark Arrian

From the editor of the widely praised Landmark series comes The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander, the account from classical Greece of the conquests of the greatest military leader of all time, presented here in Strassler's trademark richly illustrated and annotated edition.

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