# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josiah-ober
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:56:27.555Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josiah-ober"
name: "Josiah Ober"
slug: "josiah-ober"
description: "Josiah Ober is an American historian of ancient Greece and classical political theorist. He is Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Professor in honor of Constantine Mitsotakis, and professor of classics and political science, at Stanford University, and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His teaching and research link ancient Greek history and philosophy with modern political theory and practice on democracy."
tagline: "American historian of ancient Greece (born 1953)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953-02-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.148021333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://classics.stanford.edu/people/josiah-ober"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "جوشيا اوبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Josiah Ober"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Ober"
    title: "Josiah Ober"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Ober"
    title: "Josiah Ober"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Обер, Джозайя"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوشیا اوبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump