Peter Krentz

Professor of History and Chair, Department of  Classics
B.A.,  M.A., Ph.D. Yale 

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Office:  3007 Chambers
Phone:  704 894 2270

Mail: P.O. Box 6973, Davidson College, Davidson, NC 28035-6973

Professor of Classics and History Peter Krentz has taught Greek and Roman history at Davidson since 1979. He has excavated at Caesarea Maritima, a Roman site in Israel, and has lived and studied in Greece. He represents Davidson on the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, where he was a visiting professor in 2000-2001. His research interests focus on classical Greece, especially Athens. His publications include The Thirty at Athens (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1982), two volumes of an edition of Xenophon's Hellenika including a text, translation, and commentary (Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1989, 1995), Polyaenus's Stratagems of War, which he translated with Everett Wheeler (Chicago: Ares, 1994), and Polis and Polemos: Essays on Politics, War and History in Ancient Greece in Honor of Donald Kagan, which he edited with Charles D. Hamilton (Claremont: Regina, 1997