Ancient/Classical History/Expert Profile

Expertise

The First Athenian Hegemony: 478-404 BCE, the Second Athenian Hegemony: 378-355 BCE, the Peloponnesian War: 431-404 BCE, the Theban Hegemony (Epaminondas): 371-362 BCE, Hellenistic History: 335-30 BCE, the Roman Principate: 27 BCE-235 CE, the Roman "Barracks Period": 235-284 CE, the Roman Dominate: 284-395 CE, the Gallic Empire: 260-274 CE, the Palmyrene Empire: 260-273 CE, the Britannic Empire: 286-297 CE, the Illyrian Emperors: 268-284 CE, the Occidental Roman Empire: 395-476 CE, the Oriental Roman Empire (Early Byzantine Period): 330-802 CE, the Byzantine Empire (Middle Byzantine Period): 802-1204 CE, the Byzantine Empire (Late Byzantine Period): 1204-1453 CE, the Carolingian Frankish Empire under Charlemagne: 768-814 CE

Experience in the area

I am an assiduous student of Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Medieval and Italian Renaissance history with an in-depth comprehension of Platonic, Aristotelian, Hellenistic (Stoicism, Epicureanism, Skepticism and Cynicism) and Ciceronian philosophy. My passions in the fields of philosophy and history converge in late antique Mediterranean culture (200-650/750 CE). My area of greatest interest spans from the collapse of the Roman Principate in 235 CE and extends to the Mussulman invasions of the Mediterranean. Particular topics within the period of Late Antiquity include the Gallienic Renaissance and the cultivation of Neoplatonism (253-268), the Diocletianic Tetrarchy (293-313), the collapse of the Occidental Roman Empire (476 CE), the reigns of Maurice Tiberius (582-602) and Flavius Heraclius Augustus (610-641) and the Byzantine-Sassanid War (602-628).

Publications

-(The Molloy College Student Literary Magazine): A short analysis on Niccolo Machiavelli's republican treatise titled "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livy".

Education/Credentials

-(Molloy College Undergraduate Philosophy Conference) Despotism in Greek and Roman Political Theory: http://www.facebook.com/events/176699492365438/