Zofia Halina Archibald is Lecturer in Classical Archaeology at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool. Her research has focused on the history and material culture of late Iron Age south-eastern Europe and the Black Sea. Her most recent book, with J. K. Davies and V. Gabrielsen (co-editors), is Making, moving, and managing: the new world of ancient economies, 323-31 bce (Oxford 2005).
Roger Brock is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Leeds. He is particularly interested in political aspects of Greek history, especially political imagery, and has most recently published, with Stephen Hodkinson (co-editor), Alternatives to Athens: varieties of political organization and community in ancient Greece (Oxford 2000).
Kai Brodersen is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Mannheim, and was a Visiting Fellow at the Universities of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and St Andrews. He has worked on Hellenistic history, Greek and Roman historiography and geography, epigraphy, texts on marvels and wonders, and making Classical Antiquity more accessible to a wider audience. His most recent books deal with Phlegon ofTralleis (Darmstadt 2002), Palaiphatos (Stuttgart 2003), Antiphon’s Against a Stepmother and Pseudo-Demosthenes’ Against Neaira (Darmstadt 2004), and the mythog-rapher Apollodoros (Darmstadt 2004).
Stanley M. Burstein is Professor Emeritus of History at California State University, Los Angeles. His research focuses on the history and historiography of Greek contact with peoples living on the periphery of the Mediterranean world, particularly the Black Sea and ancient north-east Africa. He is the author of Outpost ofHellenism: the emergence of Heraclea on the Black Sea (Berkeley 1976), Agatharchides of Cnidus, On the Erythraean Sea (London 1989), and Ancient African civilizations: Kush and Axum (Princeton 1998).
Nick Fisher is Professor of Ancient History in the Cardiff School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University.
His research interests focus on the political, social and cultural history of Archaic and Classical Greece. His books include Hybris: a study in the values of honour and shame in ancient Greece (Warminster 1992), Slavery in classical Greece (London 1993) and Aeschines, Against Timarchos, Translated, with introduction and commentary (Oxford 2001).
Bjorn Forsen is Director of the Finnish Institute at Athens. His research deals mainly with the dedication of votive offerings in Greek sanctuaries, settlement patterns, population fluctuations and the formation of poleis. Recent publications include the monographs Griechische Gliederweihungen (Helsinki 1996); with J. Forsen, The Asea valley survey: an Arcadian mountain valley (Stockholm 2003); and, with G. Stanton (coeditor), The Pnyx in the history of Athens (Helsinki 1996).
Lin Foxhall is Professor of Greek Archaeology and History at the University of Leicester. She has published extensively on gender in classical antiquity, as well as on agriculture and the ancient economy. She has written Olive cultivation in Ancient Greece: seeking the ancient economy (in press) and co-edited Greek law in its political setting: justifications not justice (Oxford 1996), Thinking men: masculinity and its self
Representation in the Classical tradition (London 1998) and When men were men: masculinity, power and identity in Classical Antiquity (London 1998).
Peter Funke is Professor of Ancient History at the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat, Munster. The focus of his research is the political history of the Greek states from the archaic to the hellenistic period, ancient constitutions and interstate relations, and the study of the Greek world in its geographical and topographical setting. His most recent book is Athen in klassischer Zeit (Munich 22003).
Thomas Harrison is Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Divinity and history: the religion of Herodotus (Oxford
2000) and The emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus’ Persians and the history of the fifth century (London 2000), and the editor of Greeks and barbarians (Edinburgh 2002).
Waldemar Heckel is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Calgary. His most important publications include The last days and testament of Alexander the Great (Stuttgart 1988) and The marshals of Alexander’s empire (London 1992). His most recent work is Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great (Oxford 2005). He is a Fellow of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary.
J. Donald Hughes is John Evans Professor of Ancient History at the University of Denver. He is the author of Pan’s travail: environmental problems of the ancient Greeks and Romans (Baltimore 1994) and The Mediterranean: an environmental history (Santa Barbara 2005). A founding member of both the American Society for Environmental History and the European Society for Environmental History, he is also author of An environmental history of the world: humankind’s changing role in the community of life (London 2001).
Emily Kearns is currently a Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Her publications include The heroes of Attica (London 1989) and, with Simon Price (co-editor), The Oxford dictionary of classical myth and religion (Oxford 2003).
Bruce LaForse is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. He is interested in fourth-century Greek history and has published articles on Xenophon’s writings.
Steven Lattimore is Professor Emeritus of Classics and Classical Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has worked mainly on Greek sculpture of the fourth century BCE, with some attention also to Greek literature and history. Recent publications include ‘Skopas and the Pothos’ in: American Journal of Archeology 91 (1987) 411-20; Isthmia, vol. 6: Marble sculpture 1967-1980 (Princeton 1996); and Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War (trans. with intro. notes, and glossary) (Indianapolis 1998).
John W. I. Lee is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on the social and cultural aspects of classical Greek warfare. He has published articles on ancient urban battle and on women in Greek armies, and is currently finishing a book on community life in Xenophon’s Anabasis.
Kathryn Lomas is Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Her research focuses on the urbanization of Italy, and on issues of cultural and ethnic identity in the ancient world. She is the author of Rome and the Western Greeks (London
1993) and Roman Italy, 338 bc-ad 200 (London 1996), and has published numerous articles on pre-Roman and Roman Italy, urbanism and colonization in the Greek and Roman world, and ethnic and cultural identity. Her current research is a study of the development of literacy in pre-Roman Italy.
Lynette G. Mitchell is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the
University of Exeter. Her work is concerned with the impact on each other of social norms and political life in Greece in the archaic and classical periods. She is the author of Greeks bearing gifts (Cambridge 1997).
G. J. Oliver is Lecturer in Ancient Greek Culture in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool. His main research interests are Classical and Hellenistic history, the Greek economy and epigraphy. He is the author of War, food and politics in early Hellenistic Athens (Oxford 2006). Currently he is completing for publication, after a period of research funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Board, a fascicle of state decrees and laws of Athens from 321 to 301 BCE for the third edition of IG 2/32.
Sarah B. Pomeroy, Distinguished Professor of Classics Emerita, Hunter College and the Graduate School, CUNY, is the author of many books on women and ancient history, including Goddesses, whores, wives, and slaves: women in classical antiquity (New York 1975/1995), Women in Hellenistic Egypt from Alexander to Cleopatra (New York 1984), Xenophon, Oeconomicus: a social and historical commentary; with a new English translation (Oxford 1994), Families in classical and Hellenistic Greece: representations and realities (Oxford 1997), and Spartan women (New York 2002). She is also co-author of Women’s realities, women’s choices: an introduction to women’s studies (New York 32005), Women’s history and ancient history (Chapel Hill 1991), Women in the classical world: image and text (Oxford 1995), A brief history of ancient Greece (New York 2004), and Plutarch’s Advice to the bride and groom, and A consolation to his wife (Oxford 1999).
Susan Prince is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research is in the history of Greek philosophy, rhetoric, myth and prose literature. She is completing a book on the literary fragments and persona of Antisthenes, which demonstrates his intellectual relationships with his teacher Socrates, contemporary thinkers of the Sophistic movement, and his heirs Diogenes of Sinope and the Cynics.
Kurt A. Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor and Professor of Classics and History at Brown University, where he is also director of the Program in Ancient Studies. His main fields of interest are the social, political and intellectual history of archaic and classical Greece and the Roman republic. He most recently published The discovery of freedom in ancient Greece (Chicago 2004) and, with J. Ober and R. Wallace (co-authors), Origins of democracy in ancient Greece (Berkeley 2006).
P. J. Rhodes retired in 2005 as Professor of Ancient History at Durham. He has worked on Greek history, especially politics and political institutions, and has edited and commented on literary (Thucydides, the Aristotelian Athenian Constitution) and epigraphic texts; his History of the Classical Greek world was published by Blackwell in 2005.
Robert Rollinger is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Innsbruck. His primary research focus is Archaic Greek and Ancient Near Eastern History, including Greek historiography (especially Herodotos), intellectual history and intercultural contacts between the Greek and Near Eastern worlds. His most recent publications are, with C. Ulf (co-editor), Das Archaische Griechenland (Berlin 2004) and Commerce and monetary systems in the Ancient world (Stuttgart 2004); further monographs and other publications are in press.
Robert W. Wallace is Professor of Classics at Northwestern University. Recent publications include, with L. Edmunds (co-editor), Poet, public and performance in ancient Greece (Baltimore 1997); with E. Harris (co-editor), Transitions to empire: studies in Greco-Roman history 360-146 b. c. in honor of Ernst Badian (Norman OK 1996); with J. Ober and K. A. Raaflaub (co-authors), Origins of democracy in ancient Greece (Berkeley 2005); and, with M. Gagarin (co-editor), Symposion 2001: Akten der Gesellschaft fUir griechische und hellenis-tische Rechtsgeschichte (Cologne (forthcoming)).
Uwe Walter is Professor of Ancient History at the University ofBielefeld. He has worked on the early Greek polis, Roman historiography, the culture of historical memory in the Roman Republic, and the history of classical scholarship. His most recent book is Memoria und respub-lica: Zur Geschichtskultur der romischen Republik (Frankfurt 2004).
Karl-Wilhelm Welwei is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum. His books range from Unfreie im antiken Kriegs-dienst, 3 vols (Wiesbaden 1974-88), and Die griechische Polis (Stuttgart 21998), to the most recent titles: Die griechische Friohzeit: 2000 bis 500 v. Chr. (Munich 2002), Res publica und Imperium: Kleine Schriften zur romischen Geschichte (Stuttgart 2004), and Sparta: Aufstieg und Niedergang einer antiken Groamacht (Stuttgart 2004).
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