Deborah Boedeker is Professor Emerita of Classics at Brown University. From 1992 to 2000 she directed Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC, jointly with Kurt Raaflaub. Her publications focus on early Greek poetry, tragedy, historiography and religion; she is especially interested in how these areas interact with each other in the development of a shared past.
Ewen Bowie was Praelector in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from 1965 to 2007, and successively University Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature in the University of Oxford. He is now an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He has published articles on early Greek elegiac, iambic and lyric poetry; on Aristophanes; on Hellenistic poetry; and on many aspects of Greek literature and culture from the first century BCE to the third century CE, including Plutarch and the Greek novels. He has recently edited (jointly with Jaś Elsner) a collection of papers on Philostratus (2009) and (jointly with Lucia Athanassaki) a collection of papers entitled Archaic and Classical Choral Song (2011) and is currently completing a commentary on Longus, Daphnis and Chloe, for Cambridge University Press .
Bruno Currie is Monro Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Oriel College, Oxford, and Lecturer at Oxford University. He is the author of Pindar and the Cult of Heroes (2005), and of various articles on Greek epic and lyric poetry.
Lin Foxhall is Professor of Greek Archaeology and History at the University of Leicester, and has held posts at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and University College London. She has worked in Methana, the southern Argolid, Sparta and Metaponto. She currently codirects a field project in Bova Marina, southern Calabria, Italy. She has written extensively on agriculture, land use and gender in classical antiquity and has published Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece: Seeking the Ancient Economy (2007) and Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity (2012).
Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge. He is also a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, Director of the Cambridge Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and the Humanities, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published broadly on Greek literature, especially on Greek tragedy, and on Victorian culture. His most recent books are Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction and the Proclamation of Modernity (2011) and Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy (2012).
Jonas Grethlein is Professor of Classics at Heidelberg University. His recent publications include The Greeks and their Past: Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth Century BCE (2010) and, co-edited with C. Krebs, Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography: The ‘Plupast’ from Herodotus to Appian (2012).
Jeffrey Henderson is the William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language and Literature, and former Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, at Boston University. Since 1998 he has been the general editor of the Loeb Classical Library. His many publications include The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy (2nd edn, 1991), an edition of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (1987), and the five-volume Loeb edition of Aristophanes (1998– 2007). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.
Jon Hesk is Senior Lecturer in Greek at the University of St Andrews. He is author of Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) and Sophocles: Ajax (2003). He has also published a number of essays and articles on Homer, Greek drama and Attic oratory.
Emily Kearns is a Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She has written on various aspects of Greek religion and literature, and her most recent publication is Ancient Greek Religion: A Sourcebook (2010).
S. D. Lambert is an Attic epigraphist and historian. He is editor of IG II3 1, fascicule 2 (2012), author of Inscribed Athenian Laws and Decrees 352/1–322/1 BC: Epigraphical Papers (2012) and editor of Sociable Man: Essays on Ancient Greek Social Behaviour in Honour of Nick Fisher (2011). He has also published a series of books and articles on Attic associations and more recently on Athenian priesthoods, all of which deploy inscriptions extensively. He is Reader in Ancient History, Cardiff University.
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. He specialises in Achaemenid Persia and Greek sociocultural history, and in the reception of antiquity in popular culture. He is the author of Aphrodite’s Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece (2003), Ctesias’ History of Persia: Tales of the Orient (2010), King and Court in Ancient Persia (2012) and the forthcoming Designs on the Past: How Hollywood Created the Ancient World. His latest project focuses on dress and the body in Achaemenid culture. He is also the general editor of Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia for Edinburgh University Press.
Calum Maciver (PhD Edinburgh 2009) is a lecturer in Greek at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica: Engaging Homer in Late Antiquity (2012).
John Marincola is Leon Golden Professor of Classics at Florida State University in Tallahassee. His main interests are in Greek and Roman historiography and rhetoric. His books include Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography (1997), Greek Historians (2001) and, in collaboration with M. A. Flower, an edition of Book IX of Herodotus’ Histories (2003). He is currently at work on a book on Hellenistic historiography.
Kathryn A. Morgan is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato (2000) and editor of Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and its Discontents in Classical Athens (2003), and has written numerous articles on Platonic narrative and cultural ideology. She is currently completing a book on the construction of monarchy in Pindar’s odes for Hieron of Syracuse.
Maria Pavlou is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Open University of Cyprus. Her research lies mainly in archaic lyric poetry, narratology and the representation of time and space in literature. She has published on Apollonius Rhodius, Thucydides and especially Pindar. She is currently revising her PhD thesis, ‘Time in Pindar’, for publication.
Christopher Pelling is Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University. His books include commentaries on Plutarch’s Antony (1988) and Caesar (2011), Plutarch and History (2002) and Literary Texts and the Greek Historian (2000); he has also edited volumes on Characterization and Individuality in Greek Literature (1990) and Greek Tragedy and the Historian (1997), and co-edited collections on Ethics and Rhetoric (with D. C. Innes and H. M. Hine, 1995) and Ancient Historiography and its Contexts (with C. S. Kraus and J. Marincola, 2010). He is now working on a book on How the Greek Historians Explained History, to be published by the University of Texas Press.
Allen Romano is Assistant Professor of Classics at Florida State University. His main research interests lie in Greek poetry and drama, especially tragedy and Hellenistic poetry, in myth and in digital humanities. He has recently completed a monograph-length study of aetiological myths and Attic tragedy.
Suzanne Saïd is Emerita Professor at Columbia University. She has published extensively on Greek literature (especially Homer, tragedy, historiography and the novel) and mythology. Her latest book is Homer and the Odyssey (2011).
Ruth Scodel, educated at Berkeley and Harvard, is D. R. Shackleton Bailey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. Her books include Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek Tragedy (1999), Listening to Homer (2002), Epic Facework: Self-Presentation and Social Interaction in Homer (2008), (with Anja Bettenworth) Whither Quo Vadis? Sienkiewicz’s Novel in Film and Television and An Introduction to Greek Tragedy (2010). She was Leventis Professor at Edinburgh in 2011.
H. A. Shapiro is the W. H. Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Classics, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore). He is the author of Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (1989) and Myth into Art: Poet and Painter in Classical Greece (1994), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece (2007).
Julia L. Shear is a Senior Associate Member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Formerly a post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, and King’s College, Cambridge, and Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow, she is the author of Polis and Revolution: Responding to Oligarchy in Classical Athens (2011), as well as articles on Athenian religion, society and culture. She is currently working on a monograph on the Panathenaia and Athenian identities.