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Professor Bradford is the John Saxon Chair in Ancient
History whose recent publications include Flying
the Black Flag: A Brief History of Piracy and a
book on the history of warfare in ancient Greece, Rome,
the Near East, India, and China titled With Arrow,
Sword, and Spear: A History of Warfare in the Ancient
World. He is now at work on a book-length study
tentatively titled The Kings of Sparta as well
as a prosopography of ancient Sparta. He is an award-winning
teacher who offers a wide variety of classes on the
ancient world. He teaches a popular course titled "The
Ancient Art of War" and another course on the history
of Sparta. All his courses require students to work
extensively with primary sources, a key way to help
students understand cultures so different from their
own and how historians analyze such documents to construct
arguments. Professor Bradford received his Ph.D. from
the University of Chicago.
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