Contributors

Rhiannon Ash is a Senior Lecturer at University College London. She has published various books and articles on Roman historiography, especially Tacitus, including Ordering Anarchy: Armies and Leaders in Tacitus’ Histories (1999) and Tacitus (2006). She is currently completing a commentary on Tacitus Histories Book 2 for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series.

Thomas M. Banchich is Professor of Classics and History at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. Besides his publications on late antiquity, he has contributed commentaries on the Pinax of Cebes and Book I of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics to the Bryn Mawr Commentaries series. He is currently working on a translation of and commentary on Books Xn.15-XIII.19 of John Zonaras’ Epitome of Histories.

E. J. Baynham is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her primary interests are in Greek history, Greek and Roman historiography, and Greek and Roman art. Amongst her publications are Alexander

The Great:  The Unique History of

Quintus Curtius (1999) and (with A. B. Bosworth) Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction (2000).

Hans Beck is John MacNaughton Professor of Classics at McGill University in Montreal. He taught previously at the University of Cologne and held a Heisenberg Fellowship at Frankfurt University. In 2001-2 he was a Junior Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. He has published widely on the Roman republic, including a two-volume edition of the early Roman historians, co-authored with Uwe Walter, and a book on the republican nobility, Karriere und Hierarchie. Die romische Aristokratie und die Anfange des cursus honorum (2005).

A. B. Bosworth is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Western Australia. He has published extensively on the period of Alexander the Great and the Diadochoi, and his study, Conquest and Empire, has been translated into five languages. A Chinese translation is in progress. At present he is completing the third (and final) volume of his commentary on Arrian’s History of Alexander, to be published by Oxford University Press.

Benedetto Bravo is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Warsaw. Born in 1931 in Italy, he studied Classics and Ancient History in Pisa, then spent a number of Wanderjahre until he married a Polish girl and settled in Warsaw. He has done work on the history of classical studies, the society and culture of archaic Greece, the interstate relationships called sylai, Greek inscriptions of the Northern Black Sea, ancient historians and scholars.

Gregory S. Bucher is currently an Associate Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at Creighton University. He has been a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, the American School of Classical Studies, Athens, and the Center for Hellenic Studies. He has written articles on early Roman historiography, on Appian of Alexandria, and the intersection of the ancient world and film. He is currently at work on entries for the Brill’s New Jacoby project and is preparing a monograph on Appian.

Craige B. Champion is Associate Professor of Ancient History and Classics in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and Chairman of the History Department at Syracuse University. His research interests include Hellenistic and Roman republican history and historiography, citizenship and empire in ancient Greece and Rome, and collective identity formations in classical antiquity. He has written Cultural Politics in Polybius’s Histories (2004), as well as numerous articles on classical history and historiography, and has edited Roman Imperialism: Readings and Sources (2004). His current research focuses on comparative historical analysis of imperial citizenship in classical Athens and republican Rome.

Honora Howell Chapman is Associate Professor of Classics and Humanities and Coordinator of Classics at California State University, Fresno. She is currently helping to prepare volumes containing Books 2 and 3 of Josephus’ Judaean War for the Brill translation and commentary series of all the works of Josephus.

Brian Croke is Executive Director of the Catholic Education Commission, Sydney, as well as Adjunct Professor of History at Macquarie University and an Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney. He is the author of several articles and books on late antique history and historiography including History and Historians in Late Antiquity, with A. M. Emmett (1983), Studies in John Malalas, with E. Jeffreys and R. Scott (1990), Christian Chronicles and Byzantine History (1992), The Chronicle of Mar-cellinus: Translation and Commentary (1995), and CountMarcellinus (2001).

Catherine Darbo-Peschanski is Charge de Conferences at the llcole des Hautes lltudes en Sciences Sociales and Direc-teur adjoint of the Centre Louis Gernet, CNRS, Paris. She is the author of Le discours du particulier. Essai sur l’enquete herodoteenne (1987) and editor of Constructions du temps dans le monde grec ancien (2000) and La citation dans l’Antiquite (2005).

Emma Dench is Professor ofthe Classics and Professor of History at Harvard University. She is the author of From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman and Modern Perceptions of Peoples from the Central Apennines (1995) and

Romulus’ Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian (2005).

Carolyn Dewald teaches ancient history and classics at Bard College. Author of numerous articles on Herodotus and Greek historiography, her recent publications include Thucydides’ War Narrative: A Structural Study (2006), the Introduction and Notes to the Oxford World’s Classics translation of Herodotus (1998), and (with J. Marincola) The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus (2006). She is currently preparing a commentary on Herodotus I for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series.

John Dillery is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. He has written Xenophon and the History of his Times (1995) and revised and provided a new text, notes, and introduction to the Loeb edition of Xenophon’s Anabasis (2001). He is currently working on a monograph on non-Greeks writing national histories in the Greek language in the Hellenistic period, as well as a translation of Xenophon’s Hellenica and Agesilaus.

Johannes Engels is Professor of Ancient History at the Institut fur Altertums-kunde at the University of Cologne (Germany). He has taught ancient history at several German universities and has held a Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship of the Humboldt-Foundation at the KU Leuven (Belgium). He has published monographs and articles on Greek and Roman oratory and its Nachleben, ancient geography and historiography, Greek and Roman sumptuary regulations, and Greek biographers. He is currently preparing a translation and commentary on Lycurgus’ Against Leocrates. Future projects include translations and commentaries of fragmentary texts of several ancient Greek historians and biographers.

Andrew Feldherr is Associate Professor of Classics at Princeton University. His research concentrates on Latin literature in several genres with a special emphasis on historiography (Spectacle and Society in Livy’s History, 1998) and epic. He is currently completing a monograph on the Metamorphoses entitled Playing Gods: The Politics of Fiction in Ovid’s Metamorphoses as well as editing the Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians.

Gary Forsythe is Associate Professor of History at Texas Tech University. He has taught at Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr College, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago. His main interests are in ancient historiography and religion, Roman law, and Latin epigraphy. He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and is the author of The Historian L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi and the Roman Annalistic Tradition (1994), Livy and Early Rome: A Study in Historical Method and Judgment (1999), and, most recently, A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War (2005).

Alain M. Gowing is Professor of Classics at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he has been on the faculty since 1988 after receiving his PhD from Bryn Mawr College. His chiefinterests lie in the area of Roman historiography and literature, especially of the imperial period. His most recent book is Empire and Memory: The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture (2006).

Vivienne Gray (MA Auckland, PhD Cambridge) is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of

Auckland, New Zealand. Her major interest is Xenophon, with a secondary interest in Herodotus. She has written The Character of Xenophon’s Hellenica (1989) and The Framing of Socrates (1998). Her Xenophon on Government (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) is due out in 2007 and she has been recently commissioned to edit Oxford Readings in Xenophon.

Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor of Classics Emeritus in the University of Texas at Austin and Adjunct Professor and Editor of Syllecta Classica in the University of Iowa. He has published widely on all areas of classical antiquity. His most recent books are The Poems of Catullus (2005) and Diodorus Siculus: Books 11-12.37.1: Greek History, 480-431 bc: The Alternative Version (2006).

Phillip Harding is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His publications include From the End of the Peloponnesian War to the Battle of Ipsus (1985), Androtion and the Atthis (1994), and Didymos: On Demosthenes (2006). His book The Chronicles of Attika: The Fragments ofthe Atthidographers has just been published.

Martin Hose is Professor of Greek Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat in Munich. His special interests are in Greek tragedy, historiography, and the literature of late antiquity. Chief editor of Gnomon since 2000, his publications include Studien zum Chor bei Euripides (1990/1991); Erneuerung der Vergan-genheit (1994); Drama und Gesellschaft (1995); and Aristoteles: Die historischen Fragmente (2002).

Mary Jaeger is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Oregon.

She is the author of Livy’s Written Rome (1997) as well as articles on Livy, Cicero, Vergil, and Horace.

Elizabeth Keitel is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the author of many articles on Roman historiography and on Tacitus.

Gavin Kelly held Research Fellowships at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and the University of Manchester before taking up his current appointment as Lecturer in Latin Literature at Edinburgh University in 2005. He has published several articles on Ammianus, and his book, The Allusive Historian Ammianus Marcellinus, will be published by Cambridge in 2007.

Christina Shuttleworth Kraus taught at New York University, University College London, and Oxford University before moving to Yale, where she is currently Professor and Chair of Classics. She is the author of Livy: Ab Urbe Con-dita 6 (1994) and (with A. J. Woodman) Latin Historians (1997), and has edited The Limits of Historiography (1999) and (with R. K. Gibson) The Classical Commentary (2002). She has research interests in ancient narrative (especially historiography and tragedy), Latin prose style, and the theory and practice of commentaries.

Donald Lateiner teaches language, literature, and history at Ohio Wesleyan University. He is the author of books about the method of Herodotus and non-verbal behaviors in Homer. His current research concerns non-verbal behaviors in Greek and Latin prose, both the historians and the novelists. His annotated edition of Thucydides’ Histories appeared in 2006.

Matthew Leigh is a Fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford, and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature in the University of Oxford. He is the author of Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement (1997) and Comedy and the Rise of Rome (2004).

Dominique Lenfant is Maitre de Conferences in Greek History at the University of Strasbourg (France). Her main research fields are Greek historiography of the Persian empire and methods in studying fragmentary historians. She is the author of Ctesias de Cnide. La Perse. L’Inde. Autres fragments (2004) and is completing a book on the Persica fragments of Dinon and Heracleides of Cumae. She has edited a collective book on Greek and Latin sources on the Achaemenid empire (forthcoming).

D. S. Levene is Professor of Classics at New York University. He has published a variety of works on Latin historiography and rhetoric, including Religion in Livy (1993), and articles on Cicero, Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus. His current projects include a book on Livy on the Hannibalic War and an edition with commentary of Livy’s Fragments and Periochae.

John Marincola is Leon Golden Professor of Classics at Florida State University. His main interests are in Greek and Roman historiography and rhetoric. His publications include Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography (1997), Greek Historians (2002), and (with M. A. Flower) Herodotus: Histories Book IX (2003). He is currently working on a book on Hellenistic historiography.

John Matthews taught for many years at Oxford and is now John M. Schiff Professor of Classics and History at Yale. He has written widely on Roman history and historiography, including Western Aristocracies and Imperial Court, AD 364—425 (1975), The Roman Empire of Ammianus (1989), and Laying Down the Law; a Study of the Theodosian Code (2000).

J. R. Morgan is Professor of Classics at the University of Wales, Swansea. He has written extensively on the ancient novel, particularly the Greek romance. His commentary on Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe was published in 2004. Current projects include books on Longus and Heliodorus.

Roberto Nicolai is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Rome ‘‘La Sapienza.’’ He is the author of many contributions on Greek and Latin epic poetry and rhetorical, historical, and geographical literature, including La stor-iografia nell’educazione antica (1993) and Studi su Isocrate. La comunicazione letteraria nel IV sec. a. C. e i nuovi generi della prosa (2004). He is secretary of the editorial board of Seminari Romani di Cultura Greca, and a member of the editorial board of the Corpus dei Papiri Storici Greci.

Ellen O’Gorman is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus (2000) and of numerous articles on Roman historiography, on Latin literature, and on theories of history. She is currently completing a book on Fantasies of Carthage in Roman literature.

Christopher Pelling is Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University and Student of Christ Church, Oxford. He has written extensively on Greek and Roman historiography and biography, especially on Herodotus, Thucydides, Tacitus, and Plutarch. His latest books are Literary

Texts and the Greek Historian (2000) and Plutarch and History (2002). His current projects include a commentary on Plutarch’s Caesar and a study of historical explanation in Herodotus, Thucydides, and Polybius.

L. V. Pitcher has been a Lecturer in Classics at Durham University since 2004. He has published articles on Greek epigram and Plutarch’s Moralia, but his main research interests are in Greek and Roman historiography.

Leone Porciani has taught Greek and Roman History in the University of Pavia at Cremona since 2001. He was appointed Associate Professor of Greek History in November 2005. He is the author of La forma proemiale. Storiografia e pubblico nel mondo antico (1997) and of Prime forme della storiografia greca (2001), and is one of the editors of the Lexicon historiographicum Graecum et Latinum (2004-).

P. J. Rhodes was until recently Professor and is now Honorary Professor of Ancient History at Durham. His main academic interests are in Greek politics and political institutions, and in the sources both literary and non-literary for ancient history. His books include The Athenian Boule (1972), A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (1981), editions of Books 2-4 of Thucydides’ history (1988, 1994, 1998), The Decrees of the Greek States (1997, with D. M. Lewis), Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404-323 BC (2003, with Robin Osborne), and A History of the Classical Greek World, 478-323 bc (2005).

Andrew M. Riggsby is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin, and the author of Crime and Community in Ciceronian Rome (1999) and Caesar in Gaul and Rome: War in

Words (2006). He works on the cultural history of republican Roman political institutions and on the cognitive history of the Roman world.

David Rohrbacher is Associate Professor of Classics at New College of Florida. He is the author of The Historians of Late Antiquity (2002) as well as several articles on late Latin historiography.

Tim Rood is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford. He is the author of Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation (1998) and The Sea! The Sea! The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination (2004), as well as a number of articles on Greek historiography.

Richard Rutherford is Tutor in Greek and Latin Literature at Christ Church, Oxford. Among his previous publications are The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: A Study (1989), The Art of Plato (1995), and Classical Literature: A Concise History (2004).

Suzanne Sai'd is Professor of Classics at Columbia University. Her interests include Greek tragedy and comedy, the Greek novel, and the role of myth. She has written widely on Greek literature, including La faute tragique (1978), Approches de la mythologie grecque (1993), and, with Monique Trede and Alain Le Boulluec, Histoire de la littera-ture grecque (1997; English translation, 1999).

Guido Schepens is Professor Ordinarius for Ancient History at the K. U. Leuven, where he teaches courses on the History of Ancient Historiography and the translation and interpretation of Greek historiographical texts. His research activities concern the development and the theory of historical writing in antiquity. He coordinates the continuation project of Jacoby’s FGrHist Part IV (Biography and Antiquarian Literature), of which three volumes have been published to date.

Clemence Schultze is Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham. Her interests include Roman republican history, Greek and Roman clothing, ancient historiography, and the reception of antiquity in later literature and art. She has written papers on Dionysius of Halicarnassus (sections of whose work she is currently translating and annotating), on the elder Pliny, and on the influence of Greek myth on the Victorian novelist Charlotte M. Yonge.

Philip Stadter is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written or edited books on Thucydides, Arrian, and the library of San Marco in Florence. He has had for many years a special interest in Plutarch, concerning whom he has published numerous articles and several books, including a Commentary to Plutarch’s Pericles (1989) and Sage and Emperor: Plutarch, Greek Intellectuals, and Roman Power in the Time of Trajan (98-117ad) (2002).

Gregory E. Sterling is Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins in the Department of Theology and the Executive Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author or editor of five books, including Historiography and Self-Definition: Josephos, Luke-Acts, and Apologetic Historiography (1992; repr. 2006). He has published more than thirty-five articles and chapters. He serves as the co-editor of The Studia Philonica Annual and editor of two major monograph series.

Christopher Tuplin is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Liverpool. His publications include The Failings of Empire (1993), Achae-menid Studies (1996), Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture (ed. with T. E. Rihll, 2002), Pontus and the Outside World (ed., 2004), Xenophon and his World (ed., 2004), and numerous shorter studies, mostly on the history or historiography of Achaemenid Persia and classical Greece.

Pietro Vannicelli is Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Urbino. He is the author of Erodoto e la storia dell’alto e medio arcaismo (Sparta-Tessaglia-Cirene) (1993) as well as several articles on Greek history and historiography. His current project is a commentary on Herodotus Book 7.

Riccardo Vattuone is Professor of Greek History and Greek Historiography at the University ofBologna. He is the author of Logoiestoria in Tucidide (1978), Sapienza d’Occidente: Il pensiero storico di Timeo di Tauromenio (1991), and Il mostro e il sapiente. Studi sull’erotica greca (2004). He has edited Storici greci d’Occidente (2003) and is working now on a historical commentary on Diodorus.

Frank W. Walbank was Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool from 1951 to 1977, and is currently Professor Emeritus at Liverpool and an Honorary Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge. His many publications include Philip V of Macedon (1940), The Awful Revolution (1946, 1969), A Historical Commentary on Polybius (3 vols., 1957-1979), Polybius (1972), The Hellenistic World (1981), and, with N. G. L. Hammond, A History of Macedonia: Vol. III: 336-167 bc (1979). He also served as the joint editor of volumes 7 and 8 of the second edition of the Cambridge Ancient History.

Stephanie West is an Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. She has written extensively on Greek literature, including Herodotus, and is currently preparing a commentary on Herodotus Book 4 for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series.

T. P. Wiseman is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Exeter; he was Lecturer and then Reader at the University of Leicester before going to Exeter in 1977. He has written widely on Roman history and literature, including the books New Men in the Roman Senate 139bc-ad 14 (1971), Catullan Questions (1969), Cinna the Poet and Other Roman Essays (1974), Clio’s Cosmetics (1979), Catullus and his World (1985), Roman Studies Literary and Historical (1987), Historiography and Imagination (1994), Remus: A Roman Myth (1995), Roman Drama and Roman History (1998), and The Myths of Rome (2004), which won the American Philological Association’s Goodwin Award of Merit for 2005. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an honorary D. Litt. of the University of Durham.

A. J. Woodman, Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, is author of two volumes of commentary on Velleius Paterculus (1977, 1983), Rhetoric in Classical Historiography (1988), Tacitus Reviewed (1998), and Tacitus: The Annals

(2004); and co-author of commentaries on Tacitus’ Annals, Books 3 (1996) and 4 (1989), and of Latin Historians (1997). He is co-editor of Quality and Pleasure in Latin Poetry (1974), Creative Imitation and Latin Literature (1979), Poetry and Politics in the Age ofAugustus (1984), Past Perspectives (1986), Author and Audience in Latin Literature (1992), Tacitus and the Tacitean Tradition (1993), and Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace (2002). He is currently translating Sallust and co-authoring a commentary on Tacitus’ Agricola.

Andrea Zambrini is Professore Asso-ciato di Storia Greca in the Dipartimento di Scienze del Mondo Antico at the Universita della Tuscia in Viterbo. He has written a number of articles on Arrian and the Alexander historians, as well as the commentary on Books 5-7 of Arrian’s Anabasis in Arriano: L’Anabasi di Alessandro (2004).