Lee Brice

Illinois Wesleyan University

Senior Fellowship in the Humanities

Research Topic: The ‘Colts’ of Corinth and the History of Hellenistic Corinth

Lee L. Brice is Distinguished University Professor of History at Western Illinois University and Adjunct Professor of History at Illinois Wesleyan University. His research interests include the silver coins of Corinth as well as military service conditions in ancient Macedonia and Rome. He has published eleven volumes on ancient history including most recently Women and the Army in the Roman Empire (Cambridge 2024), coedited with Elizabeth M. Greene and a Companion to Mercenaries in the Greek World, Ninth to First Century BCE (Brill 2026) coedited with Takashi Fujii and Daniel Gómez-Castro.

He has also published articles and chapters on Corinthian numismatics, ancient military history, the Roman army on film, Corinthian coinage, historiography, teaching history, and ancient technology. He is also senior editor of several book series including Research Perspectives: Ancient History and Global Ancient Military History. During this term in Athens he will be advancing his die study of Corinthian silver coinage in the third and second centuries BCE.