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Hello ladies and gentlemen boys and girls the listeners of the Victor Davis Hansen show

welcome to the Saturday weekend edition we have a special show today we have a scholar with us

Dr. Barry Strauss and he and Victor are going to talk together on an interview but first let's

take a moment for some messages and we'll be right back.

Welcome back and welcome to you Dr. Strauss we're glad to have you with us we know that

you're very busy man so I appreciate your time. Thank you it's a pleasure to be here.

Yeah and I would like to tell our listeners that Dr. Barry Strauss is a

classisist and military and naval historian at Cornell University he is the

Bryce and Edith Baumar professor of humanistic studies at Cornell University he's authored

nine books on topics from the Trojan War to the Battle of Actium from Athenian ideology to the

genius of leaders like Hannibal and Caesar his most well-known book is the Ten Seasers Roman

Impers from Augustine to Constantine and those books have all been translated into 19 languages so

that to me is the most impressive part about that Barry we were really happy to have you here

before I pass this off to Victor I'd like to remind everybody that Victor is the Martin and

Ely Anderson senior fellow in military history and classics at the Hoover Institution and the

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