Many people have helped in different ways and at different points over the decade that we have been working on this volume and its companion. We would like to thank Andreas Bendlin, Robin Cormack, Michael Crawford, John Curran, Denis Feeney, Martin Goodman, Keith Hopkins, Christopher Kelly, David MacMullen, Lucia Nixon, Nicholas Purcell, Joyce Reynolds, Helen Weston, Greg Woolf; and staff in the Ashmolean Library, Oxford, the Classics Faculty and Library, Cambridge, the Institute of Classical Studies, London, as well as the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, the Libraries of the British and American Schools in Athens and the Ward Chipman Library of the University of New Brunswick at Saint John.
In particular, we have used (and enjoyed) the comments of John Henderson, who read the whole manuscript; and are grateful for the care and patience of Pauline Hire, who finally extracted it from us.
Earlier versions of three chapters have already appeared in volumes of The Cambridge Ancient History 2nd edn (Chapter 1 by J. A. N. in VII. 2; Chapter 3 by M. B. in IX; Chapter 4 by S. R. F. P. in x). Anyone who chooses to compare what is printed here with those earlier versions will see how profound the effects of collaboration have been.
M.B.
J. A. N.
S. R. F. P.
October 1996