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RICHARD A. BILLOWS is a professor at Columbia University specializing in Ancient Greek and Roman Epigraphy. He is the author of the widely praised Marathon: How One Battle Changed Western Civilization, published in eight countries and available from Overlook, as well as Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State, Kings and Colonists: Aspects of Macedonian Imperialism, and Julius Caesar: The Colossus of Rome. He lives near New York City.

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