VICTOR DAVIS HANSON has written extensively about various aspects of classical warfare in The Western Way of War, The Other Greeks, and The Wars of the Ancient Greeks. He has also published the military histories The Soul of Battle and Ripples of Battle, as well as two bestselling collections of essays: An Autumn of War and Between War and Peace. He is a professor of classics emeritus at the California State University and he has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, an Onassis Fellow in Greece, a visiting professor of military history at the U.S. Naval Academy, and a recipient of the Eric Breindel Memorial Award for journalism. He lives and works with his wife and three children on their forty-acre tree and vine farm near Selma, California, where he was born in 1953. Hanson is also currently a classicist, military historian, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.