Ryan K. Balot is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. The author of Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens (2001) and Greek Political Thought (2006), he specializes in the history of political thought. He received his doctorate in Classics at Princeton and his BA degrees in Classics from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Balot is currently at work on Courage and Its Critics in Democratic Athens, from which he has published articles in the American Journal of Philology, Classical Quarterly, Ancient Philosophy, and Social Research.
Todd Breyfogle is Director of Seminars for the Aspen Institute. He studied at Colorado College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar) before earning his PhD from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is coeditor of a five-volume commentary on Augustine’s City of God (forthcoming from Oxford University Press) and edited Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern: Essays in Honor of
David Grene (1999). He has authored numerous articles on subjects ranging from Augustine, to J. S. Bach, to contemporary political theory.
Eric Brown is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St Louis, and the author of several articles on Greek and Roman philosophy, and of Stoic Cosmopolitanism (forthcoming). Before moving to St Louis, he studied Classics and Philosophy at the universities of Cambridge, Pittsburgh, and Chicago.
Paul Cartledge is A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture within the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare College; he also holds the visiting position of Hellenic Parliament Global Distinguished Professor in the Theory and History of Democracy at New York University. His latest book is Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice (2009).
Craige B. Champion is Associate Professor of Ancient History and Classics and Chair of the History Department in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and
Public Affairs at Syracuse University. In 2004, he won the Daniel Patrick Moyni-han Award in recognition of scholarly productivity, teaching excellence, and community service. His scholarly interests lie in the history of the hellenistic world and the Middle Roman Republic, and Greek and Roman historiography. He has had an enduring interest in the ancient Greek historian Polybius. He is the author of Cultural Politics in Polybius’s Histories (2004), editor of Roman Imperialism: Readings and
Sources (2004), and coeditor, with Arthur M. Eckstein, of a new, annotated, two-volume English-language edition of Polybius, The Landmark Edition of Polybius’ Histories (forthcoming). He has published numerous articles and review essays on ancient Greek and Roman history and historiography.
Timothy Chappell is Professor of Philosophy at The Open University, Milton Keynes, England, and Director of the Open University Ethics Centre. His books are Values and Virtues: Aristote-lianism in Contemporary Ethics (2007); The Inescapable Self (2005); Reading Plato’s Theaetetus (2004); Human Values: New Essays in Ethics and Natural Law (edited with David Oderberg, 2004); Understanding Human Goods (1998); Philosophy of the Environment (1997); The Plato Reader (1996); and Aristotle and Augustine on Freedom (1995).
David J. Depew is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the interdisciplinary Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI) at the University of Iowa. He writes on the philosophy, history, and rhetoric of biology and its relation to culture in ancient and modern times, with special attention to Aristotle and Darwinism. He is coauthor with Marjorie Grene of Philosophy of Biology: An Episodic History (2004). Recent publications include ‘‘Consequence Etiology and Biological Teleology in Aristotle and Darwin,’’ (2008).
Arthur M. Eckstein is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, and a specialist in the history of the hellenistic world and Roman imperialism under the Republic. He has published four books, a coedited book, and 50 major scholarly articles. His two most recent books, Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome
(2006) and Rome Enters the Greek East: From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230-170 bc (2008), are pioneering efforts at combining modern international-systems theory with ancient history.
Matt Edge has recently completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, on the notion of individual freedom in classical Athens and its modern equivalent, and is in the process of submitting this for publication as a number of articles. His main interests are in political and moral philosophy, particularly the concepts of liberty, cosmopolitanism, and socialism.
Sara Forsdyke is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy: The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece (2005) and numerous articles on Greek history, Herodotus, and Greek political thought.
John Gibert is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of Change of Mind in Greek Tragedy (1995), coauthor (with C. Collard and M. J. Cropp) of Euripides: Selected Fragmentary Plays II (2004), and has written articles, chapters, and reviews on Greek drama, religion, and philosophy (including ‘‘The Sophists,’’ in the Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy). His current project is an edition with commentary of Euripides’ Ion.
David E. Hahm is Professor of Greek and Latin at the Ohio State University, Columbus. He is the author of The Origins of Stoic Cosmology, as well as articles on Plato, Aristotle, hellenistic philosophy and science, and the historiography of philosophy in antiquity. His current projects include Polybius’ political theory and Greek physical philosophy.
Dean Hammer is the John W. Wetzel Professor of Classics and Professor of Government at Franklin and Marshall College. He is the author of The Iliad as Politics: The Performance of Political Thought (2002), as well as articles on ancient and modern political thought in the American Journal of Philology, Historia, Political Theory, Classical Journal, Are-thusa, and Phoenix. His book Roman Political Thought and the Return to the World (2008) explores the relationship between Roman and modern political thought.
Charles W. Hedrick, Jr has taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz since 1990, and he is currently Professor in the History Department there. He is the author of articles, chapters, and books. His principal publications include The Decrees of the Demotionidai (1990); History and Silence: Purge and Rehabilitation of Memory in Late Antiquity (2000); and Ancient History: Monuments and Documents (2006). He is also joint editor of Demokratia: A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern (1996) and of the exhibition catalog The Birth of Democracy: An Exhibition (1993).
Zena Hitz is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County. She received her degree in 2005 from Princeton University’s classical philosophy program and specializes in ancient political philosophy. She has written essays on Plato’s critique of democracy and on Aristotle on friendship, and is currently working on the philosophical origins of the ideal of the rule of law.
Rachana Kamtekar is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. She is a co-editor (with Sara Ahbel-Rappe) of A Companion to Socrates (2006) and the author of several articles on Plato, Stoicism, and moral psychology. She is currently writing a book on Plato’s psychology entitled The Powers of Plato’s Psychology.
Robert A. Kaster is Professor of Classics and Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Princeton University. He is the author of Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity (1988); Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome (2005); commentaries on Suetonius’ De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus (1995) and Cicero’s Pro Sestio (2006); and articles on Roman literature and culture.
David Konstan is the John Rowe Workman Professor of Classics and the Humanistic Tradition, and Professor of Comparative Literature, at Brown University. His most recent books are The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks (2006); a translation of Aspasius’ commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (2006); Terms for Eternity (with Ilaria Ramelli,
2007) ; and Lucrezio e la psicologia epi-curea (trans. Ilaria Ramelli, 2007; in English as A Life Worthy of the Gods: The Materialist Psychology of Epicurus,
2008) . He was president of the American Philological Association in 1999.
Peter Liddel is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Manchester. His research is related to Greek political history, ancient Greek historiography, Greek epigraphy, and modern historiography (particularly histories of Greece). He is the author of Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens
(2007), and has edited a republication of Connop Thirlwall’s history of Greece: Bishop Thirlwall’s History of Greece (2007). Currently he is working on articles related to the appearance of inscriptions and other documents in Greek literary texts, and studies of non-Athenian epi-graphical habits.
Paul W. Ludwig is a Tutor at St John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. He is the author of Eros and Polis: Desire and Community in Greek Political Theory (2002). His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Philology and in the American Political Science Review. He is currently working on a book on civic friendship, as well as a volume for the Cambridge series Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy on love, friendship, and the family.
Christopher Nadon teaches courses in political philosophy for the Government Department at Claremont McKenna College and is currently at work on a study of the separation of church and state. He is the author of Xenophon’s Prince: Republic and Empire in the Cyro-paedia (2001).
Debra Nails is Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University, and is the author of The People of Plato: A Prosopog-raphy of Plato and Other Socratics (2002); Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy (1995); and articles in ancient and modern philosophy. With J. H. Lesher and Frisbee Sheffield, she edited Plato’s Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception (2006).
Carlos F. Norena is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley. He works primarily on the history of the Roman Empire, especially the political and cultural history of the first two centuries AD. He is currently completing a book, The Circulation of Imperial Ideals in the Roman West, that examines the figure of the Roman emperor as a unifying symbol for the western empire.
Josiah Ober is the Constantine Mitsota-kis Professor of Political Science and Classics at Stanford University. His books include Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens (1989), Political Dissent in Democratic Athens (1998), and Democracy and Knowledge (2008). His current research projects concern public action and the organization of information in democracies, and the emergence of dispersed authority in extensive ecologies of states. Before coming to Stanford in 2006, he taught at Princeton and Montana State universities.
Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King’s College. He has published widely in Greek history and archaeology, including Greece in the Making 1200-479 bc (1996), Archaic and Classical Greek Art (1998), and Greek History (2004). With P. J. Rhodes he edited Greek Historical Inscriptions 404-323 BC (2003). He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Kurt A. Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor in Classics and History and Director of the Program in Ancient Studies at Brown University. His research interests have focused on the social, political, military, and intellectual history of archaic and classical Greece and republican Rome, and on the comparative history of the ancient world. Recent books include The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece (2004), winner of the James Henry Breasted Prize of the American Historical Association, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (coauthored, 2007), and War and Peace in the Ancient World (edited, 2007).
P. J. Rhodes studied at Oxford, and has been working at the University of Durham since 1965: he became Professor of Ancient History in 1983, and since his retirement in 2005 has been Honorary Professor and Emeritus Professor. He is a specialist in Greek history, and particularly in politics and political institutions: his History of the Classical Greek World was published in 2005, and most recently he has written the Introduction and Notes to Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, trans. Martin Hammond (2009).
Arlene W. Saxonhouse is the Caroline Robbins Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies and Adjunct Professor of Classics at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Women in the History of Political Thought: Ancient Greece to Machiavelli (1985); Fear of Diversity: The Birth of Political Science in Ancient Greek Thought (1992); coeditor of Hobbes’s Three Discourses: A Modern, Critical Edition of Newly Identified Works by the Young Thomas Hobbes (1995); Athenian Democracy: Modern Mythmakers and Ancient Theorists (1996); and Free Speech and Democracy in Ancient Athens (2006).
Malcolm Schofield is Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge, where he has taught in the Faculty of Classics since 1972. He was editor of Phronesis from 1987 to 1992.
He is coauthor (with G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven) of The Presocratic Philosophers (2nd edn 1983). Of the many collected volumes he has helped to edit the most recent to appear is The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought (2000), which he coedited with Christopher Rowe. His other writings on ancient political philosophy include The Stoic Idea of the City (1991), Saving the City (1999), and Plato: Political Philosophy (2006).
Giulia Sissa is a Professor of Classics and Political Science at the University of California at Los Angeles. She has been a researcher at the CNRS in Paris, and Professor of Classics and head of department at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including, Greek Virginity (1997), The Daily Life of the Greek Gods (with Marcel Detienne, 2000), Le Plaisir et le mal. Philosophie de la drogue (1997), L’dme est un corps de femme (2000), and Sex and Sensuality in the Ancient World
(2008). She is currently working on politics and the passions and on the pursuit of pleasure from Athens to Utopia.
Philip A. Stadter is Falk Professor in the Humanities Emeritus in the Classics Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His books include Arrian of Nicomedia (1980), A Commentary on Plutarch’s Pericles (1989), and introductions and notes to Plutarch, Nine Greek Lives (1998) and Plutarch, Eight Roman Lives (1999). He has also edited Plutarch and the Historical Tradition (1992) and, with L. Van der Stockt, Sage and Emperor (2002).
W. Jeffrey Tatum is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher (1999) and Always I am Caesar (2008), as well as numerous papers on Roman history and Latin literature. He is currently writing a commentary on the Commentariolum Petitionis attributed to Quintus Cicero.
Robert W. Wallace is Professor of Classics at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Areopagos Council, to 307BC (1989) and Reconstructing Damon: Music, Wisdom Teaching, and Politics in Democratic Athens (forthcoming). He coauthored The Origins of Greek Democracy (2007) and has coedited four volumes on Greek law, Greek music and performance, and hellenistic political history. He has published widely in the fields of Greek history, law, music theory, numismatics, and literature.
Catherine H. Zuckert is a Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and editor of The Review of Politics. Her books include Natural Right and the American Imagination: Political Philosophy in
Novel Form (1990); Postmodern Platos: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, Derrida (1996); and Plato’s Philosophers
(2009). She coauthored The Truth about Leo Strauss (2006) with her husband Michael, and edited Understanding the Political Spirit: From Socrates to Nietzsche (1988).
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