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Department of Classics

Cornell University Cornell University Cornell Univeristy Department of Classics

Hunter R. Rawlings III


Red-Figure Bell Krater

Red-Figure Bell Krater

Green Glass Bottle

Roman Glass Bottle

Vessel Lid

Lid of an Etruscan cinerary urn

Tablet

Portrait on a Roman funerary stele

Eagle

Jupiter and eagle

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Hunter R. Rawlings, III

Professor and University President Emeritus

Research Focus

Greek history and historiography

Recent Courses Taught

On leave 2011-2013

Spring 2011
Advanced Readings in Greek (GREEK 4102)
Classics and Early America (CLASS 4683/HIST 4861/GOVT 4862)

Selected Publications

  • Invited review essay on Greek historiography, History and Theory 23 (1984) 251-260.
  • The Structure of Thucydides' History (Princeton University Press, 1981).
  • "The Arche of Thucydides' War," Arktouros, Hellenic Studies presented to B.M.W. Knox, (1979) 272-279.
  • "'Giving Desertion as a Pretext': Thuc. 7.13.2," Classical Philology 73 (1978) 134-136.
  • "Panolethria and Divine Punishment: Thuc. 7.87.6 and Hdt. 2.120.5," La Parola del Passato 182 (1978) 331-337 (with N.M. Kopff).
  • "Thucydides on the Purpose of the Delian League," Phoenix 31 (1977) 1-8.
  • "Antiochus the Great and Rhodes, 197-191 B.C.", The American Journal of Ancient History 1 (1976) 2-28.
  • A Semantic Study of Prophasis to 400 B.C., Hermes Einzelschriften, Volume 33 (Wiesbaden, 1975).