Paul Kosmin

Philip J. King Professor of Ancient History
Paul Kosmin
Boylston 215
617.495.1926
pjkosmin@fas.harvard.edu
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Research interests: Greek history (especially Hellenistic); Greek historiography (especially Herodotus, Polybius, 1 and 2 Maccabees); ancient kingship and imperialism (Near Eastern, Graeco-Macedonian, and Roman); ancient ethnography, geography, and chronology; eastern Mediterranean interactions; Second Temple Judaism; epigraphy

Kosmin, Paul J., and Ian S. Moyer, eds. 2022. Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kosmin, Paul J., and Ian S. Moyer, eds. 2022. Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kosmin, Paul J., and Andrea M. Berlin, eds. 2019. Spear-Won Land: Sardis from the King’s Peace to the Peace of Apamea. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Kosmin, Paul J., and Andrea M. Berlin, eds. 2019. Spear-Won Land: Sardis from the King’s Peace to the Peace of Apamea. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Kosmin, Paul J. 2024. The Ancient Shore. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Kosmin, Paul J. 2024. The Ancient Shore. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Kosmin, Paul J. 2014. The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Kosmin, Paul J. 2014. The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Kosmin, Paul J., and Andrea M. Berlin, eds. 2021. The Middle Maccabees: Archaeology, History, and the Rise of the Hasmonean Kingdom. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press.
Kosmin, Paul J., and Andrea M. Berlin, eds. 2021. The Middle Maccabees: Archaeology, History, and the Rise of the Hasmonean Kingdom. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press.
Kosmin, Paul J. 2018. Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Kosmin, Paul J. 2018. Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.