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Professor Gregory S. Aldrete
Uniiversity
Universityy of Wisconsin
isconsin–Green
Green Bay
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, Gregory S. Aldrete, Ph.D.
Frankenthal Professor of History and
Humanistic Studies
University of Wisconsin–Green Bay
P
rofessor Gregory S. Aldrete is the Frankenthal
Professor of History and Humanistic Studies
at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay.
He received his B.A. from Princeton University in
1988 and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan
in 1995. His interdisciplinary scholarship spans the
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Among the books Professor Aldrete has written or edited are Gestures
and Acclamations in Ancient Rome; Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome;
Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia; The Greenwood
Encyclopedia of Daily Life: A Tour through History from Ancient Times to
the Present, volume 1, The Ancient World; The Long Shadow of Antiquity:
What Have the Greeks and Romans Done for Us? (with Alicia Aldrete);
and Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor: Unraveling the Linothorax
Mystery (with Scott Bartell and Alicia Aldrete).
Professor Aldrete has won many awards for his teaching, including two
national ones: In 2012, he was named the Wisconsin Professor of the Year
by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and in 2010,
he received the American Philological Association Award for Excellence in
Teaching at the College Level (the national teaching award given annually by
the professional association of Classics professors). Professor Aldrete also
has been a University of Wisconsin System Teaching Fellow, a University
of Wisconsin–Green Bay Teaching Scholar, and winner of a Teaching at Its
Best award.
Professor Aldrete’s research has been equally honored with a number of
prestigious fellowships, including two year-long Humanities Fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Solmsen
i
, Fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities in Madison.
Additionally, he was chosen as a fellow of two NEH seminars held at the
American Academy in Rome; was a participant in an NEH institute at the
University of California, Los Angeles; and was a Visiting Scholar at the
American Academy in Rome. His university has given him its highest
awards for both teaching and research: the Faculty Award for Excellence in
Teaching and the Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship, both from
the Founders Association.
Professor Aldrete’s innovative Linothorax Project, in which he and his
students reconstructed and tested ancient linen body armor, has recently
garnered considerable attention from the media, having been featured in
documentaries on the Discovery Channel and the Smithsonian Channel and
on television programs in Canada and across Europe. It also has been the
subject of articles in U.S. News & World Report, Der Spiegel, and Military
History and of Internet news stories in more than two dozen countries.
Professor Aldrete maintains an active lecture schedule, including speaking
to retirement groups; in elementary, middle, and high schools; and on cruise
ships. He also has been named a national lecturer for the Archaeological
Institute of America. For The Great Courses, he taught History of the Ancient
World: A Global PerspectiveŶ
ii
History Military
The Decisive Battles
of World History
Cou
urse Guid
debook
Professor Gregory S. Aldrete
Uniiversity
Universityy of Wisconsin
isconsin–Green
Green Bay
, PUBLISHED BY:
THE GREAT COURSES
Corporate Headquarters
4840 Westfields Boulevard, Suite 500
Chantilly, Virginia 20151-2299
Phone: 1-800-832-2412
Fax: 703-378-3819
www.thegreatcourses.com
Copyright © The Teaching Company, 2014
Printed in the United States of America
This book is in copyright. All rights reserved.
Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above,
no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in
or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted,
in any form, or by any means
(electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise),
without the prior written permission of
The Teaching Company.
, Gregory S. Aldrete, Ph.D.
Frankenthal Professor of History and
Humanistic Studies
University of Wisconsin–Green Bay
P
rofessor Gregory S. Aldrete is the Frankenthal
Professor of History and Humanistic Studies
at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay.
He received his B.A. from Princeton University in
1988 and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan
in 1995. His interdisciplinary scholarship spans the
¿HOGVRIKLVWRU\DUFKDHRORJ\DUWKLVWRU\PLOLWDU\KLVWRU\DQGSKLORORJ\
Among the books Professor Aldrete has written or edited are Gestures
and Acclamations in Ancient Rome; Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome;
Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia; The Greenwood
Encyclopedia of Daily Life: A Tour through History from Ancient Times to
the Present, volume 1, The Ancient World; The Long Shadow of Antiquity:
What Have the Greeks and Romans Done for Us? (with Alicia Aldrete);
and Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor: Unraveling the Linothorax
Mystery (with Scott Bartell and Alicia Aldrete).
Professor Aldrete has won many awards for his teaching, including two
national ones: In 2012, he was named the Wisconsin Professor of the Year
by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and in 2010,
he received the American Philological Association Award for Excellence in
Teaching at the College Level (the national teaching award given annually by
the professional association of Classics professors). Professor Aldrete also
has been a University of Wisconsin System Teaching Fellow, a University
of Wisconsin–Green Bay Teaching Scholar, and winner of a Teaching at Its
Best award.
Professor Aldrete’s research has been equally honored with a number of
prestigious fellowships, including two year-long Humanities Fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Solmsen
i
, Fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities in Madison.
Additionally, he was chosen as a fellow of two NEH seminars held at the
American Academy in Rome; was a participant in an NEH institute at the
University of California, Los Angeles; and was a Visiting Scholar at the
American Academy in Rome. His university has given him its highest
awards for both teaching and research: the Faculty Award for Excellence in
Teaching and the Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship, both from
the Founders Association.
Professor Aldrete’s innovative Linothorax Project, in which he and his
students reconstructed and tested ancient linen body armor, has recently
garnered considerable attention from the media, having been featured in
documentaries on the Discovery Channel and the Smithsonian Channel and
on television programs in Canada and across Europe. It also has been the
subject of articles in U.S. News & World Report, Der Spiegel, and Military
History and of Internet news stories in more than two dozen countries.
Professor Aldrete maintains an active lecture schedule, including speaking
to retirement groups; in elementary, middle, and high schools; and on cruise
ships. He also has been named a national lecturer for the Archaeological
Institute of America. For The Great Courses, he taught History of the Ancient
World: A Global PerspectiveŶ
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