Bowersok, Glen

He graduated from Harvard ( AB summa cum laude , 1957), and also received a first-class bachelor's degree with distinction at Oxford (1959). In the latter he received the degrees of MA and Dr. Philos. DPhil - in 1962 with the theses "Augustus and the Greek World."

In 1960-62 lecturer at Oxford. In 1962-80 Professor (since 1969 - full) classics and history of Harvard, in 1972-77. He headed the department of classics there, there was also an assoc. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In 1980–2006 Professor of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, since 2006, Emeritus. In 1984-92 Senior Fello Byzantinists in Dumbarton Oaks , where he was invited by , in 1991-2. the head there is the older fello byzantinistics.

Invited prof. in Oxford (1966), Australian National University (1972), Collège de France (1997). In 1991–92, Seider was a professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

Member Amer. Acad. Arts and Sciences, the Royal Academy of Belgium, a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Academy dei Lincei, as well as Fr. Academy of inscriptions and fiction (31.05.1996). Member Amer. Philosophy Society (1989) and Amer. numismatic society. Member Correspondent of the German Institute of Archeology. Honorary Fello of Oxford Balliol College (2004).

Chevalier of the Orders of the Legion of Honor and Arts and Literature.

Honorary Doctor of Strasbourg University (1990), EPHE (1999), Athens University (2005).

Author of many books and more than 400 articles.

Research interests: Greek and Roman history and civilization, Greek philology in the imperial period, relations between the Roman Empire and Eastern cultures, the history of Hellenism in late antiquity and the religious history of Middle Eastern Roman politics, the history of Christianity in the Roman world, Greek epigraphy.

G. Bowersok, confronting the analysis of modern cultural clashes between Islam and Christianity and rejecting S. Huntington’s idea of ​​a clash of civilizations, as an expert on Ancient Rome, made the thesis that civilizations do not conflict, but slip (civilizations don't clash, they overlap) ^[3] .

• Augustus and the Greek World (Oxford, 1964; Clarendon Press, 1965)
• Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire (1969)
• Julian the Apostate (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978)
  • fr Julien l'Apostat (Armand Colin, 2008)
• Roman Arabia (1983) ISBN 9780674777569
• Hellenism in Late Antiquity (1990)
  • ital L'ellenismo nel mondo tardoantico (Laterza, 1992)
  • Greek 1996, 2000
• Fiction as History: Nero to Julian (1994)
  • ital La storia inventata (Jouvence, 2000)
• Martyrdom and Rome (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
  • fr Rome et le martyre (Éditions Flammarion 2004)
• Antiquity to Islam (2006)
• From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition (2009)
• The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 182.
  • fr Le Trône d'Adoulis (2014)
• The Crucible of Islam (November 2016)

• Bowersok Glen's profile on the RAS official website
• On the website of the school of historical studies IAS
• http://www.aibl.fr/membres/academiciens-depuis-1663/article/bowersock-glen-w
• http://www.doaks.org/library-archives/dumbarton-oaks-archives/historical-records/oral-history-project/glen-bowersock
• On the works of G. Bowersok