BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2014 – 2015

James Romm

For a biography of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

James Romm is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College, specializing in ancient Greek and Roman history. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, London Review of Books, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He edited the Landmark edition of Arrian’s Campaigns of Alexander, and he is the author of The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought, Herodotus, Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire, and Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero. As a Leon Levy fellow he worked on a biography of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the Italian Renaissance philosopher.