Ernst Badian, FBA, John Moors Cabot Professor of History, Emeritus, Harvard, was born in Vienna and educated in New Zealand and at University College, Oxford. He was a Professor at Leeds and at Buffalo, before his appointment to Harvard (1971-98). His publications include Foreign Clientelae (264-70BC), 1958; Studies in Greek and Roman History, 1964; Roman Imperialism in the Late Republic, 1967 (revised and enlarged as Romischer Imperialismus in der Spaten Republik, 1980); Publicans and Sinners, 1972 (translated into German and augmented as Zollner und Siinder, 1997); From Plataea to Potidaea, 1993; and numerous contributions to the Oxford Classical Dictionary and to journals.
Timothy Barnes was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and held a Junior Research Fellowship at the Queen’s College. He taught in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto from 1970 to 2007, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1985. He won the Conington Prize at Oxford for his first book, Tertullian: A Historical and Literary Study (1971) (2nd edition, with postscript, 1985). His major publications since then have been The Sources of the Historia Augusta (1978), Constantine and Eusebius (1981), The New Empire of Diocletian and Constantine (1982), Athanasius and Constantius: Theology and Politics in the Constantinian Empire (1993) and Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality (1998). He now lives in Edinburgh and is attached to the University of Edinburgh.
Thomas Biskup is Research Councils UK Fellow and Lecturer in Enlightenment History at the University of Hull. He gained his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2001, and was Mary Somerville Research Fellow at the University of Oxford from 2001 to 2004. His main research interests are the cultural history of European monarchy and courts in the early modern and modern eras and natural history in eighteenth-century England and Germany. Recent publications include: ‘German court and French Revolution: llmigres in Brunswick around 1800’, in Francia, 33 (2007); ‘A University for Empire? The University of
Gottingen and the Personal Union, 17371837’, in Brendan Simms and Torsten Riotte (eds.), The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714-1837 (Cambridge, 2007); ‘Napoleon’s second Sacre? lena and the ceremonial translation of Frederick the Great’s insignia in 1807’, in Alan Forrest and Peter H. Wilson (eds.), The Bee and the Eagle: Napoleonic France and the End of the Holy Roman Empire (Basingstoke, 2008); and (coedited with Marc Schalenberg), Selling Berlin: Imagebildung und Stadtmarket-ing von der preufiischen Residenz bis zur Bundeshauptstadt (Stuttgart, 2008).
Luciano Canfora studied at the University of Bari and at the Scuola Normale of Pisa. He is currently Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Bari. He is chief editor of the journal Quaderni di Storia (1975-) and of the series ‘‘La citta antica’’ (published by Sellerio, Palermo). In 2000 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the President of the Italian Republic for cultural merits, and in 2005 he received the Golden Honour Cross ofthe Hellenic Republic. Among his publications are: Conservazione e perdita dei classici (Padua: Antenore 1974); Cultura classica e crisi tedesca. Gli scritti politici di Wila-mowitz 1914-31 (Bari: De Donato 1977); Ideologie del classicismo (Turin: Einaudi, 1980); Studi di storia della storiografia romana (Bari: Edipuglia, 1993; Il copista come autore (Palermo: Sellerio, 2002); Il papiro di Dongo (Milan: Adelphi, 2005); Democracy in Europe: A History of an Ideology (Oxford: Blackwell 2006); Julius Caesar: The People’s Dictator (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007); Filo-logia e liberta (Milan, Mondadori, 2008); and Exporter la libert'e. lichec d’un mythe (Paris: Desjonqueres, 2008).
Carol Clark studied at Somerville College, Oxford and Westfield College, London. She then taught in London, in West Africa and at Glasgow University before being elected to Balliol College, Oxford, where she remained for many years as Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages. She has published books and articles on Rabelais and Montaigne and translations from Baudelaire, Rostand and Proust.
Ronald Cluett holds a Ph. D. in Classics from Princeton University. From 1992 until 2004 he held a joint position in Classics and History at Pomona College in Claremont, California. He has published on ancient numismatics and Roman women as well as on the Con-tinuators. He is currently completing his J. D. at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he has been surprised to discover numerous structural and stylistic similarities between the Iliad and the United States Internal Revenue Code.
Nicholas Cole is currently a Junior Research Fellow in History at St. Peter’s College, Oxford. He read Ancient and Modern History at University College, Oxford, where he also completed his MPhil in Greek and Roman History and his doctorate. His particular interests are the influence ofclassical political thought on America’s first politicians, and the search for a new ‘science of politics’ in post-Independence America. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. His book, The Ancient World in Jefferson’s America, will be published by Oxford University Press.
Elaine Fantham took her degrees at Oxford and Liverpool and taught at St. Andrews University before emigrating in 1966. She has taught at the University of Toronto (1968-86) and Princeton University (1986-2000) and is now Giger Professor of Latin Emeritus. She has published commentaries on Seneca’s Troades, Lucan BC II and Ovid
Fasti IV, and monographs including Roman Literary Culture (1996) and The Roman World of Cicero’s De Oratore (2004). She is editor and contributor to the conference volume Caesar against Liberty? (Proceedings of the Langford Seminar, 2005), reviewing Roman perspectives on Caesar’s autocracy.
Jane F. Gardner is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History, School of Humanities, University of Reading, UK. Her publications include two in the Penguin Classics series, Caesar: The Civil War (1967) and a revision of S. A. Handford’s Caesar: The Gallic War (1951, rev. 1982), and three monographs on Roman legal and social history, Women in Roman Law and Society (1986), Being a Roman Citizen (1993) and Family and Familia in Roman Law and Life (1998).
Julia Griffin studied Classics and then English at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and is Associate Professor of English at Georgia Southern University. She has published on various Renaissance authors, and is particularly interested in later uses of the classical writers. Among her publications is Selected Poems of Abraham Cowley, Edmund Waller and John Oldham (London: Penguin Classics, 1998).
Miriam Griffin is Emeritus Fellow in Ancient History of Somerville College, Oxford. She is the author of Seneca: a Philosopher in Politics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976; reissued with Postscript, 1992), of Nero: the End of a Dynasty (London: Batsford, and New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984), and (with E. M. Atkins) of Cicero: On Duties (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1991). She is currently working on a study of Seneca’s De Beneficiis.
Erich S. Gruen is Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His research has been primarily in the Roman Republic, Hellenistic history, and the Jews in the Greco-Roman world. His books include The Last Generation of the Roman Republic (1974), The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome (1984), Culture and Identity in Republican Rome (1992), Heritage and Hellenism (1998), and Diaspora: Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans (2002). His current project is a study of Greek and Roman perceptions and representations of the ‘‘Other.’’
Christina S. Kraus taught at New York University, University College London, and Oxford before moving to Yale. She works on Roman historiographical narrative, and has published studies on Caesar, Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus. She is currently writing a commentary, with A. J. Woodman, on Tacitus, Agricola.
Matthew Leigh is Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at Oxford University and a Tutorial Fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford. He is the author of Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement (Oxford, 1997) and Comedy and the Rise ofRome (Oxford, 2004).
Barbara Levick, Emeritus Fellow and Tutor in Literae Humaniores at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, is the author of Tiberius the Politician (1976), Claudius (1990), Vespasian (1999), and Julia Domna: Syrian Empress (2007), and is co-editor with Richard Hawley of Women in Antiquity: New Assessments (1995). She is working on a book about Augustus.
Andrew Lintott is now retired, after teaching first Classics, then Ancient History, successively at King’s College London, Aberdeen University, and Worcester College, Oxford. He has published Violence in Republican Rome, Violence, Civil Strife, and Revolution in the Classical City, Judicial Reform and Land Reform in the Roman Republic, Imperium Romanum: Politics and Administration, and The Constitution of the Roman Republic, and, most recently, Cicero as Evidence: a Historian’s Companion.
Martin McLaughlin is Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Recent publications in the area of Renaissance studies include Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance (Oxford University Press, 1995) and chapters in Mapping Lives: The Uses of Biography, ed. Peter France and William St. Clair (Oxford University Press, 2002), and The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. II: The Middle Ages, ed. Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He also coedited (with Zygmunt G. Baranski) Italy’s Three Crowns:. Reading Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2007), and (with LetiziaPanizza) Petrarch in Britain: Interpreters, Imitators and Translators over 700 Years (Oxford University Press, 2007; Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 146).
Claude Nicolet was born in Marseilles. He studied at the iScole Normale Super-ieure de la rue d’Ulm from 1950 to 1954, becoming Agrege in History in 1954. He was attached to the cabinet of P. Mendes France, Minister of State, in 1956, and served as editor-in-chief of the Cahiers de la R'epublique in 1956-7 and 1961-3. He was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Paris (196996). He served as Directeur de l’iScole Francaise de Rome from 1992 to 1996 and was an advisor to J. P. Chevenement, Minister of National Education (1984), of Defence (1992), and the Interior (1996). He is Membre de l’Institut (Aca-demie des inscriptions et Belles Lettres) and a Member of the British Academy. Among his publications are: L’Ordre equestre a l’epoque r'epublicaine (312-43 av. J.-C.), De Boccard vols. I (1966) and II (1974); The World of the Citizen in Republican Rome, trans. by P. S. Fallu from the 1976 French edition (London: Batsford, 1980); L’Id'ee R'epublicaine en France. Essai d’Histoire critique (17891924) (Paris: Gallimard, 1982); and Inventaire du Monde, (Paris: Fayard, 1988).
Jeremy Paterson is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University. He is a social and economic historian of the ancient world with wide interests in the political life of the Republic and Early Empire. He recently edited Cicero the Advocate (2004) with Jonathan Powell and discussed the creation of Roman Imperial Court society in A. J. S. Spawforth (ed.), The Court and Court Society in Ancient Monarchies (2007). He is currently working on a study of early Christian reactions to Roman power.
Christopher Pelling is Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University. He has worked extensively on Greek and Roman historical writing, especially Greek accounts of Roman history, and his books include a commentary on Plutarch, Life of Antony (Cambridge, 1988), Literary Texts and the Greek Historian (Routledge, 2000), and Plutarch and History (Classical Press of Wales, 2002). He is currently writing a commentary on Plutarch, Life of Caesar.
Luke Pitcher is Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. His published work includes articles on ancient historiography, biography, and epic, as well as commentaries on fragmentary Greek historians. He is currently completing an introduction to history writing in the classical world.
Kurt Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor and Professor of Classics and History and Director of the Program in Ancient Studies at Brown University. His main interests are the social, political, and intellectual history of Archaic and Classical Greece and Republican Rome, and the Comparative History of the Ancient World. Recent publications include The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece (2004), Social Struggles in Archaic Rome (ed., new expanded edn. 2005), Origins ofDemoc-racy in Ancient Greece (co-author, 2007), War and Peace in the Ancient World (ed., 2007).
John T. Ramsey (MA Oxford, PhD Harvard) is Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author or co-author of five books and numerous articles and reviews. His specialty is Roman history and Latin prose, and in 2003 he published a commentary on Cicero’s Philippics I & II (Cambridge University Press). He also has an interest in ancient astronomy, being co-author with the physicist A. Lewis Licht of The Comet of 44 BC and Caesar’s Funeral Games (Oxford, 1997). Most recently he produced A Descriptive Catalogue of Greco-Roman Comets from 500 BC to AD 400 (2006), the first ever comprehensive collection of European reports of comet sightings in antiquity.
Nathan Rosenstein is Professor of History at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Imperatores Victi: Military Defeat and Aristocratic Competition in the Middle and Late Republic (1990), Rome At War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic (2004), various articles, and the editor (with
Kurt Raaflaub) of War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, The Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoa-merica (1999) and (with Robert Mor-stein-Marx) of A Companion to the Roman Republic (2006), published by Blackwell.
Catherine Steel is Professor of Classics at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of Cicero, Rhetoric and Empire (Oxford, 2001), Reading Cicero (London,
2005) and Roman Oratory (Cambridge,
2006) .
Almut Suerbaum is Fellow and Tutor in German at Somerville College, and University Lecturer in Medieval German, at the University of Oxford. She has published on twelfth - and thirteenth-century German narrative texts, medieval women’s writing, and the relationship between Latin and vernacular culture in the Middle Ages.
Mark Toher is the Frank Bailey Professor of Classics at Union College in Schenectady, New York. He is the author of articles and essays on topics in Greek and Roman history and historiography, and along with Kurt Raaflaub he co-edited Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of Augustus and His Principate (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1990). He is presently at work on an edition of the life of Augustus by Nicolaus of Damascus.
David Wardle is Professor of Classics at the University of Cape Town. His research interests lie in the areas of Roman historiography and Roman religion. He is the author of commentaries in the Clarendon Ancient History Series, Valerius Maximus Book I (Oxford, 1998) and Cicero: On Divination Book I (Oxford, 2006), and is currently working on Suetonius’ presentation of Augustus.
Maria Wyke is Chair of Latin at University College London. Her research interests include gender and Roman love poetry (The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations, Oxford University Press, 2002), and the reception of ancient Rome in popular culture ( Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History, Routledge, 1997). Most recently, she has investigated the reception of Julius Caesar, resulting in her monograph Caesar: A Life in Western Culture (Granta, 2007) and an edited collection Julius Caesar in Western Culture (Blackwell, 2006). She is currently preparing a further study of Caesar’s reception, Caesar in the USA: Classical Reception, Popular Culture,
American Identity (University of California Press, forthcoming).
Paul Zanker, FBA, studied at the Universities of Munich, Freiburg im Breisgau, and Rome. He was Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Universities of Gottingen (1972-6), then Munich, where he is now Professor Emeritus. From 1996 to 2002 he served as Director of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome. He is now Professor ofthe History ofArt at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Among his many publications are his Jerome Lectures, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (Ann Arbor, 1988), and his Sather Lectures, The Mask of Socrates (Berkeley, 1995).
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