We would like to thank the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Department of Classics, the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, and the Divinity School — all at the University of Chicago — for their support, financial and otherwise, of the two conferences mentioned above. The Franke Institute, in addition, provided at different points year-long research fellowships to three of the contributors (Edmonds, Faraone and Moyer), which were used, in part, to write and edit various parts of this volume. Gratitude is due also to the University of Chicago Press for allowing the use (in Cristiano Grottanelli’s essay) of an extended section of David Grene’s translation, Herodotus: The History (1987), and to Shadi Bartsch, the editor of Classical Philology, and the University of Chicago Press for allowing us to print here a slightly altered version of Sarah Johnston’s essay, which appeared in Classical Philology. Finally we would like to acknowledge the work of Dan Belnap and Tracy Davis on the bibliography and preliminary drafts of the indices.