Paul J. Kosmin

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Paul J. Kosmin (born 1984) is a historian of the Hellenistic period, the centuries after the conquests of Alexander the Great that saw the spread of Greek culture and language across the Eastern Mediterranean and western Asia. His main focus is the Seleucid Empire, the Macedonian successor state that ruled Syria, Babylonia, Persia, and various adjoining regions at its height. He is a professor of classics at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Biography

Kosmin attended

named professorship of John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in 2014.[1]

In 2014, he published The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire, a popular adaptation of his dissertation on how the Seleucid Empire controlled its territory. In 2018, he published Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire, a book on the

Hasmonean kingdom
, The Middle Maccabees: Archaeology, History, and the Rise of the Hasmonean Kingdom.

Kosmin was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021.[3][4]

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