Byron Nakamura Bibliography

Department of History

 

Articles

 

“Valentinian I,” “Valentinian II,” “Valentinian III,” “Valens,” “Honorius,” and “Arcadius,”

encyclopedia entries in The Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, eds. R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, A. Erskine, (Blackwell: Oxford 2011).

 

“Marcus Licinius Crassus,”  and “Agamemnon” encyclopedia entries  in Great Lives from

History: The Fabulously Wealthy, ed. Howard Bromberg, (Salem Press: 2011)

 

                “Julian’s Gamble in the Desert,” Military History Quarterly  23 (2010) 72-79.

 

                “Queen Zenobia” in Great Lives from History, ed., A. Saloway (Salem Press: 2004) 986-989

 

"When Did Diocletian Die?  New Evidence for an Old Problem," Classical Philology 98 (2003)

283-289.

 

"Constantine the Great," “Maximian,” “Gallienus,” and “Valerian” in The Encyclopedia

 of the Ancient World, 3 vols., ed. T.J. Sienkewicz, (Pasadena 2001.

 

 

                "From Turtles to Tortoises: Some Remarks on the Coinage of Aegina," in

                                Musings in Ancient History, ed. C. Thomas, (Claremont 1994) 47-50.

 

                "Palmyra and the Roman East," Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 34 (1993) 133-150.

 

 

                Book Reviews

 

                R. L. O’Connell, The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic,

(Random House 2010) in Military History Quarterly 24 (2010) 94-95.

 

                J. Curran, Pagan City and Christian Capital: Rome in the Fourth Century, (Oxford 2000) in

Journal of  Church and State 44 (2002) 573-574.

 

S.J. Davis, The Cult of St. Thecla: A Tradition of Women's Piety in Late Antiquity, (Oxford 2001)

in Journal of Church and State 43 (2001) 813-814.