Johann P. Arnason is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at La Trobe University in Melbourne and Visiting Professor at the Charles University in Prague. His research has focused on historical sociology, with growing emphasis on the comparative analysis of civilizations. Recent publications include Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions (2003); Axial Civilizations and World History (co-editor, 2005).
Ryan K. Balot is Professor of Political Science and Classics at the University of Toronto. He specializes in American, early modern, and classical political thought and various aspects of Athenian democracy. He is author of Greek Political Thought (2006) and editor of A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought (2009), and is completing a book on “Courage and its critics in democratic Athens.”
Lucio Bertelli is Professor Emeritus of Classical Philology at the University of Turin. His main interests concern Greek political thought and theory, the origin of Greek historiography, and the reflection of historical knowledge in the comic theater. His recent books include La memoria storica di Aristofane (2001) and Platone contro la democrazia (e l’oligarchia) (2005). He is co-editor of an edition with translation and commentary of Aristotle’s Politics.
Egon Flaig is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Rostock. His research interests include deliberative dynamics in Greek assemblies, the origin and dynamics of majority decision, and the cultural conditions for the emergence of anthroponomic political orders. He is author of Weltgeschichte der Sklaverei (2nd ed. 2011); Die Mehrheitsentscheidung. Genesis und kulturelle Dynamiken (2012).
Sara L. Forsdyke is Professor of Classical Studies and History at the University of Michigan. Her research has focused on Greek law, social and cultural history, and historiography, Athenian democracy, and ancient slavery. She is the author of Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy: The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece (2005) and Slaves Tell Tales and Other Episodes in the Politics of Popular Culture in Ancient Greece (2012). She is currently working on a book on slavery in Ancient Greece.
Jonas Grethlein is Professor of Classics at Heidelberg University. His research interests lie in archaic and classical Greek literature, hermeneutical philosophy, and narratology. His recent publications include Das Geschichtsbild der Ilias. Eine Untersuchung aus phänomenologischer und narratologischer Perspektive (2006) and The Greeks and Their Past: Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth Century BC (2010).
Nathalie Karagiannis is author of Avoiding Responsibility: The Politics and Discourse of EU Development Policy (2004), editor of European Solidarity (2007), and co-editor of Varieties of World-Making: Beyond Globalization (2007). Among her articles closer to the interests of the present volume are “Varieties of Agonism: Conflict, the Common Good and the Need for Synagonism” (2008) and “Imagination and Tragic Democracy” (forthcoming).
Adriaan Lanni is Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. Her research interests include ancient law and contemporary American criminal justice. She is the author of Law and Justice in the Courts of Classical Athens (2006) and of Law and Order in Ancient Athens (forthcoming).
Elizabeth A. Meyer is Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on Greek and Roman political history, especially in their intersection with law, and Greek and Roman epigraphic, documentary, and archival practices. Her books include Legitimacy and Law in the Roman World: Tabulae in Roman Belief and Practice (2004) and Metics and the Athenian Phialai-Inscriptions: A Study in Athenian Epigraphy and Law (2010).
Claude Mossé is Professor Emerita of Ancient History at the University of Paris VII. Her research has focused on Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greece. Her best-known work is La Fin de la démocratie athénienne. Aspects sociaux et politiques du déclin de la cité grecque au IV e s. av. J.-C. (1962). She is author of many other books, including recently Au nom de la loi. Justice et politique à Athènes à l’âge classique (2010).
Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy. His research ranges widely over the history, art, and archaeology of Classical Greece and particularly of Classical Athens. His recent books include Athens and Athenian Democracy (2010) and The History Written on the Classical Greek Body (2011).
Kurt A. Raaflaub is Professor Emeritus of Classics and History at Brown University. His main fields of interest are the social, political, and intellectual history of archaic and classical Greece and of the Roman republic, and the comparative history of the ancient world. His books include The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece (2004) and (co-authored) Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007).
Tracy B. Strong is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. His main focus is modern political thought, especially of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among his publications are Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration (latest ed. 2000) and Politics Without Vision: Thinking Without a Banister in the Twentieth Century (2012). His current project deals with music, language, and politics in the period from Rousseau to Nietzsche.
Lawrence A. Tritle is Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. His current research focuses on the individual’s experience of war and the wider consequences of violence on culture and society. His books include From Melos to My Lai. War and Survival (2000) and A New History of the Peloponnesian War (2010).
Peter Wagner is ICREA Research Professor in the Department of Sociological Theory, Philosophy of Law, and Methodology of the Social Sciences at the University of Barcelona. His main research interests are in social and political theory and historical, political, and cultural sociology with a particular emphasis on the comparative analysis of contemporary social configurations and their historical trajectories. His recent books include Modernity: Understanding the Present (2012); Modernity as Experience and Interpretation (2008) and Varieties of World-Making: Beyond Globalization (co-edited, 2007).
Harvey Yunis is Professor of Humanities and Classics at Rice University in Houston. His research focuses on rhetorical and political theory and the artistic prose literature of Classical Greece. He is the author of commentaries on Demosthenes, On the Crown, and Plato, Phaedrus, and of Taming Democracy: Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens (1996).