Alfred S. Bradford
John Saxon Chair of Ancient History

email: abradford@ou.edu
Personal Webpage

Area of Specialty
Ancient Greece - Sparta - Ancient Military History

Education
University of Wisconsin, 1960-1964, B. A. with Honors
University of Chicago, 1964-1966, M. A., Classical Languages and Literature
1970-1973, Ph. D., Classical Languages and Literature

Academic Honors and Awards
Phi Beta Kappa, 1964
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1964/5
LaVerne Noyes Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1965/6, 1970/1-73
Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies ... 1990/91
University of Oklahoma Student Government Teaching Award, 1999/2000
University of Oklahoma Regents Teaching Award, 1999/2000

Major Publications
A Prosopography of Lacedaemonians from the Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B. C., to the Sack of Sparta by Alaric, A. D. 396, Vestigia (C. H. Beck) Munich, 1977

Prosopographie der Lakedaimonier bis auf die Zeit Alexanders des Grossen, Chicago, 1986 (Second Edition with an Introduction, Addenda and Corrigenda of Paul Poralla)

Philip II of Macedon, Praeger, New York, 1992

Some Even Volunteered: The First Wolfhounds Pacify Vietnam, Praeger, Westport, CT, 1994

With Arrow, Sword, and Spear: A History of Warfare in the Ancient World, Praeger, Westport, CT, 2001

"Ancient Asymmetrical Coalitions," Future Wars: Coalition Operations in Global Strategy, ed. Dennis E. Showalter, pp. 9-17, Imprint Publications, Chicago, 2002

Current Research Project
Attack Upon Innocents: How Nations Respond, Praeger, (Forthcoming)

Current Classes
A cycle of three semester courses on ancient Greece
History of Sparta
The Ancient Art of War
Greek and Roman Civilization