# Paul Kosmin Philip J. King Professor of Ancient History ![Paul Kosmin](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2026-05/Paul%20Kosmin%20photo%20%281%29.jpg?h=054f8556&itok=3njtwcr3) location\_on Boylston 215 smartphone [617.495.1926](tel:617.495.1926) email laptop\_windows [Website](https://pjkosmin.scholars.harvard.edu/) laptop\_windows [Office Hours Information](https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/faculty-office-hours) 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 Download 6 citations download- [BibTeX](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97001&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97001&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97001&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97001&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=tagged) - [Marc](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97001&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=marc) - [PubMedId](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97001&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97001&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=ris) Kosmin, Paul J., and Ian S. Moyer, eds. 2022. *[Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East](/publication/cultures-resistance-hellenistic-east)*. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kosmin, Paul J., and Ian S. Moyer, eds. 2022. *[Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East](/publication/cultures-resistance-hellenistic-east)*. Oxford: Oxford University Press. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cultures-of-resistance-in-the-hellenistic-east-9780192863478?cc=us&lang=en&) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cultures-of-resistance-in-the-hellenistic-east-9780192863478?cc=us&lang=en&) Kosmin, Paul J., and Andrea M. Berlin, eds. 2019. *[Spear-Won Land: Sardis from the King’s Peace to the Peace of Apamea](/publications/spear-won-land-sardis-kings-peace-peace-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](/publications/spear-won-land-sardis-kings-peace-peace-apamea)*. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5697.htm) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5697.htm) Kosmin, Paul J. 2024. *[The Ancient Shore](/publication/ancient-shore)*. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Kosmin, Paul J. 2024. *[The Ancient Shore](/publication/ancient-shore)*. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674296244) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674296244) Kosmin, Paul J. 2014. *[The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire](/publications/land-elephant-kings-space-territory-and-ideology-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](/publications/land-elephant-kings-space-territory-and-ideology-seleucid-empire)*. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674986886) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674986886) Kosmin, Paul J., and Andrea M. Berlin, eds. 2021. *[The Middle Maccabees: Archaeology, History, and the Rise of the Hasmonean Kingdom](/publication/middle-maccabees-archaeology-history-and-rise-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](/publication/middle-maccabees-archaeology-history-and-rise-hasmonean-kingdom)*. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.sblcentral.org/home/bookDetails/1000415) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.sblcentral.org/home/bookDetails/1000415) Kosmin, Paul J. 2018. *[Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire](/publications/time-and-its-adversaries-seleucid-empire)*. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Kosmin, Paul J. 2018. *[Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire](/publications/time-and-its-adversaries-seleucid-empire)*. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674271227) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674271227) - ## People Role [Classics Faculty](/people-role/classics-faculty)