The First Grand Strategists? War and Politics in Ancient Egypt and Iraq

The Clements Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft, the Department of History, and the Thomas Jefferson Society are pleased to welcome Professor Garrett Fagan to UT for a talk titled "The First Grand Strategists? War and Politics in Ancient Egypt and Iraq".

In this lecture Garrett G. Fagan considers the geopolitical and military situation in the Ancient Near East, especially in the Early Dynastic III Period of Sumer (ca. 2500-2100 BCE) and the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500-1100 BCE), and explores what the evidence tells us about any supposed "Grand Strategy" the various players were adhering to. He also asks the more basic question of whether or not such early states even had the apparatus to formulate "Grand Strategy" in the first place.
 

Garrett G. Fagan is Professor of Ancient History at Penn State University. His main research interests lie in the field of Roman history and archaeology, on which he has published two mongraphs (Bathing in Public in the Roman World [Ann Arbor, 1999] and The Lure of the Arena [Cambridge, 2011]). He has edited or co-authored three other books, and has numerous scholarly articles and chapters in print. He has appeared on the acclaimed PBS science series Nova and on the History Channel, and has produced three courses with The Teaching Company, on the History of Ancient Rome, Emperors of Rome, and Great Battles of the Ancient World.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014 at 12:15pm to 1:30pm

Texas Union Building (UNB), Eastwoods Room
2247 Guadalupe, Austin, Texas 78705

Event Type

Arts & Humanities, Policy & Law

Target Audience

Students, Staff, Faculty, Alumni, General Public

Website

http://www.clementscenter.org/events/...

Cost

Free

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