J. E. Lendon

J. E. Lendon had a very curious upbringing””a Canadian, he was born in Lebanon and grew up in Japan””the memory of which he has tried to obliterate with a quite conventional academic career: he got his B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale, began teaching at MIT, and is now a Professor of History at The University of Virginia. He is the author of Empire of Honour: The Art of Government in the Roman World, Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity, and Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins, featured in his Rorotoko interview. All of which is to show, in different ways, how futile his attempts have been to escape his exotic childhood.