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Maureen Alden read Classics at Liverpool, where she studied Homeric archaeology with John Pinsent, himself a pupil of H. L. Lorimer. She wrote her PhD thesis, on Mycenaean tombs, at Liverpool and the British School at Athens, where she was the School Student. Her teaching interests include Homer, tragedy, and art, and she has published on Homer, Bronze Age archaeology, and costume, ancient and modern. Øivind Andersen is Professor of Classics at the University of Oslo. He was formerly Director of the Norwegian Institute at Athens. He has published on a variety of topics, including ancient rhetoric and the orality/literacy question. As a Homerist, he has edited (with M. Dickie) Homer’s World: Fiction, Tradition, Reality (1995) and (with D. Haug) Relative Chronology in Early Greek Epic Poetry (2010). He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Michael J. Anderson is the author of The Fall of Troy in Early Greek Poetry and Art (1997). He teaches Classics at Trinity College, Connecticut. Carla M. Antonaccio is Professor of Archaeology at Duke University. She was educated at Wellesley and Princeton and has excavated in Greece, Cyprus, and Sicily. Before joining the faculty of Duke University, she taught at Wesleyan University. Her work has dealt with the Greek Iron Age and early Archaic period, and she has written extensively on Greek burial customs, ancestor and hero-cult, and colonization. Egbert J. Bakker (PhD Leiden, 1988) is Professor of Classics at Yale University. He has written on oral poetry, poetic performance, the linguistic articulation of narrative, and the differences between speaking and writing. His publications include Linguistics and Formulas in Homer (1988); Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (1997); and Pointing at the Past: From Formula to Performance in Homeric Poetics (2005). He is editor or co-editor of Written Voices, Spoken Signs: Performance, Tradition, and the Epic Text (1997); Grammar as Interpretation (1997); Brill’s Companion to Herodotus (2002); and the Blackwell Companion to the Ancient Greek Language (2010). William Beck is Coordinator at the Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos (LfgrE), Universität Hamburg. He has published extensively on Homeric subjects, especially Homer’s language and formulae.

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Trevor Bryce, formerly Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England, Australia, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Lincoln University, New Zealand, is cur- rently Honorary Research Consultant at the University of Queensland and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has published many articles and books on the history and civilizations of the ancient Near East, with particular emphasis on Anatolia. Recent books include Life and Society in the Hittite World (2002); Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East (2003); The Kingdom of the Hittites (2005); The Trojans and their Neighbours (2006); and The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia (2009). Jonathan S. Burgess is a Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto. His major publications are The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle (2001) and The Death and Afterlife of Achilles (2009). Douglas Cairns is Professor of Classics at the University of Edinburgh. He currently holds a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, London, and has previously been Visiting Professor in Classics, Kyoto University, Japan, and Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Bonn. His publications include Aidôs: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature (1993); Oxford Readings in Homer’s Iliad (2001); Body Language in the Greek and Roman Worlds (2005); and Bacchylides: Five Epinician Odes (2010). Diskin Clay is Distinguished Professor of Classical Studies Emeritus at Duke University. He has written extensively on Plato and Greek philosophy and contributed a chapter on “Plato Philomythos” to the Cambridge Companion to Plato (2007) as well as an essay on “The Islands of the Odyssey” in Mapping the Mediterranean (2007). Jenny Strauss Clay is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in Homer’s Odyssey (2nd ed., 1997); The Politics of Olympus: Form and Meaning in the Major Homeric Hymns (rev. ed., 2006); Hesiod’s Cosmos (2003); numerous articles on Greek and Roman poetry; and Homer’s Trojan Theater (2010). She served as President of the American Philological Association and of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. Bruno Currie is a Fellow and Tutor at Oriel College, Oxford. His main research interests are Greek lyric and early hexameter poetry (Homer, Hesiod, and the Hymns). He is the author of Pindar and the Cult of Heroes (2005) and co-editor of Epic Interactions: Perspectives on Homer, Virgil, and the Epic Tradition Presented to Jasper Griffin by Former Pupils (2006). Anastasia Dakouri-Hild teaches Aegean and Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at the Lindner Center for Art History at the University of Virginia. Her field of specialty is the Mycenaean civilization, in particular the region of Boeotia, and the application of digital technologies in archaeology and the humanities. She is co-editor (with E. S. Sherratt) of Autochthon: Papers Presented to O. T. P. K. Dickinson on the Occasion of his Retirement (2005) and Beyond Illustration: 2D and 3D Technologies as Tools for Discovery in Archaeology (2008). She is currently working on the final publication of The House of Kadmos at Thebes, Greece. Irene J. F. de Jong studied Classics at the University of Amsterdam. Since 2000 she has held the Chair of Ancient Greek at the same university. She has published extensively on Homer, Herodotus, and Euripides, and at present is editing a multi-volume history of ancient Greek narrative, two volumes of which have appeared (Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature, 2004; Time in Ancient Greek Literature, 2007). Her publications

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include A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey (2001) and (with A. Rijksbaron) Sophocles and the Greek Language: Aspects of Diction, Syntax, and Semantics (2006). Eleanor Dickey learned Greek at Bryn Mawr College and completed her doctorate at Merton College, Oxford. She taught at the University of Ottawa and Columbia University before taking up her current position as Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Exeter, England. She is the author of Greek Forms of Address from Herodotus to Lucian (1996); Latin Forms of Address from Plautus to Apuleius (2002); and Ancient Greek Scholarship (2007). Oliver T. P. K. Dickinson is Reader Emeritus and Honorary Fellow at the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University, UK. He has participated in excavations at Lefkandi, Knossos, and Nichoria, and in the Boeotia Survey Expedition; he is currently a member of the Middle Helladic Argolid Project. He has been Chairman of the Lefkandi Committee of the British School at Athens since 2005, and member of the Research Review Committee of the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, New York, since 2003. His major publications include The Origins of Mycenaean Civilisation (1977); A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilisation in the Bronze Age, Vol. 1: The Mainland and Islands (with R. Hope Simpson, 1979); The Aegean Bronze Age (1994); and The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age (2006). Lillian E. Doherty is Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Siren Songs: Gender, Audiences, and Narrators in the Odyssey (1995) and Gender and the Interpretation of Classical Myth (2001), and the editor of Oxford Readings in Homer’s Odyssey (2008). Casey Dué is Associate Professor and Director of Classical Studies at the University of Houston as well as co-Executive Editor at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Publications include Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis (2002); The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy (2006); and Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush: A Multitext Edition with Essays and Commentary (2010, with Mary Ebbott). She is the editor of Recapturing a Homeric Legacy: Images and Insights from the Venetus A Manuscript of the Iliad (2009) and the Homer Multitext (http://www.homermultitext.org). Daniela Dueck is Senior Lecturer in History and Classics at Bar Ilan University, Israel. She has published articles and book chapters, and a book, Strabo of Amasia: A Greek Man of Letters in Augustan Rome (2000). She is co-editor of Strabo’s Cultural Geography: The Making of a Kolossourgia (2005). Her Geography in Classical Antiquity is forthcoming. Mary Ebbott is Associate Professor of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is co-editor of the Homer Multitext project (http://chs.harvard.edu/ chs/homer_multitext), author of Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek Literature (2003), and co-author (with Casey Dué) of Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush: A Multitext Edition with Essays and Commentary (2010). Birgitta Eder is Reader in Aegean Archaeology and Early Greece in the Department of Classical Archaeology at the University of Freiburg in Germany. Previously she held a research position at the Mykenische Kommission at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her fields of interest include the archaeology and history of the Greek mainland from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age and Homeric geography. She has published exten- sively on materials from Olympia and Elis. Radcliffe G. Edmonds III is an Associate Professor in the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College. His research interests center on Greek social and intellectual history, with particular focus on mythology, religion, and Platonic

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philosophy. He has published on eros and midwifery in Plato, on Orphism and the mys- terious gold tablets, and on magical techniques in the “Mithras Liturgy.” His study of the journey to the Underworld in the Greek mythic tradition was published in 2004 by Cambridge University Press. Current research includes the history of myth interpretation and the marginal categories of magic and Orphism within Greek religion. Mark W. Edwards has degrees in Classics from Bristol University, England. He has taught successively at Brown University, Queen’s University, and Stanford University, and retired in 1991. His publications include Homer: Poet of the Iliad (1987); The Iliad: A Commentary. Vol. 5: Books 17–20 (1991); and Sound, Sense, and Rhythm: Listening to Greek and Latin Poetry (2002). David F. Elmer is Assistant Professor of the Classics at Harvard University and Assistant Curator of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature. His research interests include Homeric poetry, South Slavic epic, and the Greek novel. He is currently working on a monograph about consensus and collective decision-making in the Iliad, and a study of the epic singing of Alija Fjuljanin, one of Milman Parry’s informants. Nancy Felson is a Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia. She is Whitehead Professor at the American School for Classical Studies in Athens (2010/2011). She is the author of Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics (1994) and editor of two special issues of Arethusa: Semiotics and Classical Studies (1983) and The Poetics of Deixis in Alcman, Pindar, and Other Lyric (2004). She has published widely on Pindar and archaic Greek poetry. Margalit Finkelberg is Professor of Classics at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece (1998); Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition (2005); and of numerous articles on a variety of topics, par- ticularly Homer and Greek epic tradition. She is co-editor (with Guy Stroumsa) of Homer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World (2003). She is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. John Miles Foley is W. H. Byler Endowed Chair in the Humanities and Curators’ Professor of Classical Studies and English at the University of Missouri. He has written eighteen books and more than 160 articles on the oral traditions of ancient Greece, medieval English, and the former Yugoslavia. He is also the founding editor of Oral Tradition and the founding director of the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition and Center for eResearch. Andrew L. Ford is the Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Princeton University. His work has focused on the history of Greek criticism, taking into account changing modes of poetic performance and interpretation. His monographs include Homer: The Poetry of the Past (1992) and The Origins of Criticism: Literary Culture and Poetic Theory in Classical Greece (2002). Robert L. Fowler is Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek at the University of Bristol. He has edited the Cambridge Companion to Homer (2004), and published on Greek lyric poetry, historiography, and religion. He is currently writing a commentary on the texts of his Early Greek Mythography, Vol. 1 (2000). John C. Franklin is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Vermont. Most of his research deals with the musical interface between early Greece and the Near East. He is working on two books, Kinyras: The Divine Lyre and The Middle Muse: Eastern Echoes in Early Greek Music. He has also published a lighthearted CD of Greek musical impressions, The Cyprosyrian Girl: Hits of the Ancient Hellenes.

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Rainer Friedrich, Alexander McCleod Professor Emeritus, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, has published widely on Homer, Greek drama, ritual and ritualism, modern drama, and critical theory. His publications include Stilwandel im Homerischen Epos (1975) and Formular Economy in Homer: The Poetics of the Breaches (2007). Michael Gagarin is the James R. Dougherty, Jr. Centennial Professor of Classics at the University of Texas in Austin. He has written widely in the areas of Greek literature, Greek philosophy, and especially Greek law, in the Archaic and Classical periods. Among his books are Draco and Early Athenian Homicide Law (1981); Early Greek Law (1986); Antiphon the Athenian: Oratory, Law, and Justice in the Age of the Sophists (2002); and Writing Greek Law (2008). He is also the editor-in-chief of the seven-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Peter Gainsford works primarily on Homeric families and the framing of epic and mythi- cal narratives. He comes from New Zealand, and has studied and taught there and in Canada and England. Currently he lives in Wellington, New Zealand, and is working on the Odyssey and on the novelization of the Trojan War by “Dictys of Crete.” Deborah L. Gera is an Associate Professor of Classics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the author of Ancient Greek Ideas on Speech, Language, and Civilization (2003). Christopher Gill studied Classics at Cambridge and Yale. He has been Professor of Ancient Thought at the University of Exeter since 1997. His special subjects include ancient psy- chology and ethics, especially conceptions of character, personality and self, and Platonic philosophy, in particular the philosophical use of dialogue form. His books include Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy, and Philosophy: The Self in Dialogue (1996), which was awarded a Runciman Prize in 1997; The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought (2006); and a number of edited volumes of essays. Forthcoming books include Naturalistic Psychology in Galen and Stoicism (2010). Fritz Graf is Distinguished University Professor of Greek and Latin at the Ohio State University and Director of Epigraphy at its Center for Epigraphical Studies. His work focuses mainly on ancient religions. His most recent publications include Apollo (2008) and (with Sarah Iles Johnston) Ritual Texts on the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets (2007). Currently he is working on religion and epigraphy, and is preparing a monograph on Roman festivals in the antique East. Justina Gregory is Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures at Smith College. She is the author of Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians (1991) and a commentary on Euripides’ Hecuba (1999), and the editor of A Companion to Greek Tragedy (2005). Jasper Griffin was for many years Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at Oxford University, where he was also Public Orator, writing and delivering the speeches in Latin for those receiving honorary degrees. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, having been, until his retirement, Fellow in Greek and Latin Language and Literature for over forty years. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and reviews. His books include Homer on Life and Death (1980); Latin Poets and Roman Life (1985); and Homer and Virgil in the Past Master Series of Oxford University Press. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. Dimitri Gutas is Professor of Classical Arabic Studies and Greco-Arabic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University. He has writ- ten about the history of the medieval translation of Greek scientific and philosophical works into Arabic in Greek Thought, Arabic Culture (1998), and in Greek Philosophers in the Arabic Tradition (2000). He is an authority on the Arabic philosophical tradition, in

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particular Avicenna, on whom he wrote Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition (1988). He has recently published an edition, translation, and commentary of both the Greek text and the medieval Arabic translations of Theophrastus’ On First Principles (2010). He con- tinues to edit (with G. Endress) A Greek and Arabic Lexicon (1992–). Constanze Güthenke is Associate Professor of Classics and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. She writes on European philhellenism, the cultural and literary history of clas- sical scholarship, modern Greek literature, and on issues of antiquity after antiquity. She is the author, most recently, of Placing Modern Greece: The Dynamics of Romantic Hellenism, 1770–1840 (2008). Her latest research is on the cultural history and imagery of German classical scholarship in the long nineteenth century. Benjamin Haller is Assistant Professor of Classics at Virginia Wesleyan College. His research interests include Homer, landscape in literature, and the ancient novel. Robert Hannah is Professor of Classics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has written extensively on the use of astronomy in Greek and Roman culture. His most recent publications include Greek and Roman Calendars: Constructions of Time in the Classical World (2005) and Time in Antiquity (2009). His current interests are in calendars, the everyday measurement and perception of time, and star-based navigation. William Hansen is Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies and Folklore at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. He received his BA (1965) and PhD (1970) in Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include The Conference Sequence: Patterned Narration and Narrative Inconsistency in the Odyssey (1972); Saxo Grammaticus and the Life of Hamlet: History, Translation, and Commentary (1983); Phlegon of Tralles’ Book of Marvels (1996); Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature (1998); Ariadne’s Thread: A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical Literature (2002); and Classical Mythology: A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks and Romans (2005). Stephen J. Harrison is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Professor of Latin Literature in the University of Oxford. He is the author of a commen- tary on Vergil, Aeneid 10 (1991), of Apuleius: A Latin Sophist (2000), and of Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace (2007), and editor of a number of other volumes on Latin literature and its reception. Michael Haslam is Professor of Classics at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has edited literary papyri in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri series. Dag Trygve Truslew Haug studied classical languages, Sanskrit, and Lithuanian at the University of Oslo, where he received his PhD in 2001 with a thesis on the Homeric lan- guage. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Freiburg (2002–2004) and became an Associate Professor of Latin at the University of Oslo in 2005. His main field of interest is the linguistic study of ancient languages. Since 2008 he has been leading a project funded by the Norwegian Research Council on the syntax of the early Indo- European translations of the New Testament. Faya Haussker teaches Greek subjects at Open University, Israel. She received her PhD in Classics from Tel Aviv University. Her research interests include Greek literature and reli- gion, Greek cultural history, and gender relations and perspectives in ancient Greece. John Heath is Professor of Classics at Santa Clara University, California. He is the co- author (with Victor Davis Hanson) of Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom (1998), as well as Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing Classics from an Impoverished Age (2001, co-authored with Victor Davis Hanson and

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Bruce Thornton). His most recent book is The Talking Greeks: Speech, Animals, and the Other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato (2005). His current research interests include the classical origins of Western attitudes toward animals and the Greek tragic vision. Malcolm Heath is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Leeds. His publications include The Poetics of Greek Tragedy (1987); Political Comedy in Aristophanes (1987); Unity in Greek Poetics (1989); Hermogenes On Issues: Strategies of Argument in Later Greek Rhetoric (1995); Interpreting Classical Texts (2002); and Menander: A Rhetor in Context (2004). He has translated Aristotle’s Poetics for Penguin Classics (1996), and is currently working on a study of Aristotle’s anthropology of poetry, as a preliminary step toward the long-term goal of a theoretical commentary on the Poetics. Bruce Heiden is Professor of Greek and Latin at the Ohio State University, where he has taught since 1984. He is author of Homer’s Cosmic Fabrication: Choice and Design in the Iliad (2008), and Tragic Rhetoric: An Interpretation of Sophocles’ Trachiniae (1989). His translations of Homer and other Greek poets have appeared in The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (2010), Southwest Review, and Literary Imagination. Carolyn Higbie is Park Professor of the Classics at the University at Buffalo, New York. Her interests include the cultural history of the Greeks, how they remembered and pre- served their past, especially the Trojan War. She has published articles and books on the Homeric epics; her most recent book is The Lindian Chronicle and the Greek Creation of Their Past (2005). She is currently at work on a book about cultural forgeries. Since 1995, Michael Hillgruber has been Full Professor of Classical Philology at the Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg. His main areas of research are classical rhetoric and literary criticism, along with the history of science in the 19th and 20th cen- turies. His most important publications are Die zehnte Rede des Lysias (1988); Die pseudo- plutarchische Schrift De Homero (two parts, 1994/1999); and Otto Kern, Meine Lehrer: Erinnerungen (2008). Louise Hitchcock is Senior Lecturer in Bronze Age Aegean Archaeology at the University of Melbourne. Her fields of interest include Aegean archaeology (especially architecture), archaeological theory, and interconnections with Cyprus and Israel. She currently exca- vates at the Philistine site of Tell es-Safi/Gath in partnership with Bar Ilan University. She has written numerous articles on Aegean archaeology and several books, including Minoan Architecture: A Contextual Analysis (2000); Aegean Art and Architecture (1999, co-authored with Donald Preziosi); and Theory for Classics: A Student’s Guide (2008). She is co-editor (with Robert Laffineur and Janice Crowley) of DAIS: The Aegean Feast (2008). Richard Hitchman took his first degree, in Classics, at Oxford University. After thirty years as a banker, he returned to take an M.Phil. and D.Phil. in comparative philology. He is a lecturer in Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and his main research interest is personal names in ancient Greece. Thomas K. Hubbard is Professor of Classics at the University of Texas. He is the author of books on Pindar, Aristophanes, pastoral poetry, and ancient homosexuality, as well as numerous articles on topics ranging from Homer to the Greek novel. Askold Ivantchik is Senior Research Fellow at CNRS, Bordeaux, France, Director of the Center for Comparative Studies of Ancient Civilizations, Moscow, and Professor of Ancient History at Moscow State University. His main research interests are ancient his- tory and the archaeology of the Eurasian steppes and the Black Sea region; Greek and Latin epigraphy; and relations between Greeks and the Iranian world. He is author of five books, including Am Vorabend der Kolonisation: Das nördliche Schwarzmeergebiet und die

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Steppennomaden des 8.–7. Jhs. v.Chr. in der klassischen Literaturtradition (2005), and of 160 articles. He is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Peter Jablonka is an archaeologist at the Department of Prehistory, University of Tübingen, Germany. He studied prehistory and classical archaeology in Vienna, Austria. His field work includes excavations in Austria, Bulgaria, Georgia, Lebanon, and Turkey. He has participated in the ongoing excavations in Troy since 1988. Currently he is co- directing the Troy project, and is both an author and editor of its publications. Ahuvia Kahane is Professor of Greek and Director of the Humanities and Arts Research Center at Royal Holloway, University of London. Among his publications are The Interpretation of Order (1994); Written Voices, Spoken Signs (1997, with E. Bakker); Diachronic Dialogues (2005); The Chicago Homer (with M. Mueller, online); and a Hebrew translation of Homer’s Odyssey (1996). Forthcoming work includes Epic, Novel, and the Progress of Antiquity; Antiquity and the Ruin; and Homer: A Guide to the Perplexed. His research interests include questions of historical time, representation, genre and more, with special emphasis on the reception of antiquity and the classical tradition. Anthony Kaldellis is Professor of Greek and Latin at the Ohio State University. He has published many articles and books on Byzantine culture, historiography, and the recep- tion of classical antiquity in Byzantium, most recently Hellenism in Byzantium (2007) and The Christian Parthenon (2009), both with Cambridge University Press. He has also pub- lished translations of many Byzantine authors. Emily Kearns teaches Greek literature and language at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford. Her main area of research is Greek religion, but she has also written on Homer, Greek tragedy, and Renaissance Latin. She is the author of The Heroes of Attica (1989) and editor (with Simon Price) of The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion (2003), and is cur- rently preparing a sourcebook on religion in Archaic and Classical Greece. Adrian D. Kelly is Fellow and Tutor in Ancient Greek Literature at Balliol College, University of Oxford. He is the author of A Referential Commentary and Lexicon to Homer Iliad VIII (2007) and Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus (2009). Katherine C. King received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton Univer- sity. For thirty years she has been a professor at UCLA in the Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature. She specializes in epic, tragedy, the classical tradition (medi- eval, Renaissance, and modern revisions of classical works), and gender studies. Her first two books – Achilles: Paradigms of the War Hero from Homer through the Middle Ages (1987) and Homer (1994), an edited collection about authors influenced by Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey – reflect her scholarly interest in why and how a writer manipulates important cultural texts for ideological purposes. Her most recent book is Ancient Epic (2009). David Konstan is the John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and the Humanistic Tradition, and Professor of Comparative Literature, at Brown University. In 2010, he joined the Department of Classics at New York University. Among his books are Roman Comedy (1983); Sexual Symmetry (1994); Greek Comedy and Ideology (1995); Friendship in the Classical World (1997); Pity Transformed (2001); The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks (2007); “A Life Worthy of the Gods”: The Materialist Psychology of Epicurus (2008); and Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea (2010). He served as President of the American Philological Association in 1999, and is a Fellow of the American Aca- demy of Arts and Sciences.

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Robert Lamberton is Professor of Classics at Washington University in St. Louis. He has worked for several decades on Homeric allegory and is the author of Homer the Theologian (1986), and co-editor (with J. Keaney) of Homer’s Ancient Readers (1992). Donald Lateiner publishes on Homer, Herodotus, and Heliodorus, although Thucydides brought him to Classical Studies. He has taught at Ohio Wesleyan University for three decades. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (University of Edinburgh) specializes in gender and the sociocul- tural history of Greece and the Near East. He has a particular interest in ancient dress. He is the author of Aphrodite’s Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece (2003), and the editor of Women’s Dress in the Ancient Greek World (2002) and The Clothed Body in the Ancient World (2005). He has most recently co-authored a dictionary of Greek and Roman dress, and published a translation of Ctesias’ Persica. He is currently working on a mono- graph on royal women and court society in Persia and the Near East. Carolina López-Ruiz is Associate Professor of Greek and Latin at the Ohio State University. She has published articles on the connections between Greek and Near Eastern literature, as well as on Phoenician historiography (as part of Brill’s New Jacoby). She has co-edited (with Michael Dietler) the volume Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: Phoenician, Greek, and Indigenous Relations (2009). Her monograph When The Gods Were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East was published in 2010. Bruce Louden received his PhD at the University of California at Berkeley. He has published widely on Homer, including three books, the third of which, The Odyssey and the Near East, will be published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press. He has also published on the Rigveda, the Bible, Greek tragedy and lyric, Roman comedy, Beowulf, Shakespeare, and Milton. He is especially interested in intersections between Homeric epic and the Bible. Deborah Lyons teaches Classics at Miami University and taught previously at the University of Michigan and Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult (1997) and co-editor (with Raymond Westbrook) of Women and Property in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Societies (2005). She is currently completing a book entitled Dangerous Gifts: Ideologies of Gender and Exchange in Ancient Greece. Christopher John Mackie is Professor in Classics at La Trobe University. He is a graduate of the University of Newcastle (Australia) and the University of Glasgow. He has written widely on Homer and Vergil, including a recent book called Rivers of Fire, which focuses on some key symbolic themes in Homer’s Iliad. Hilary S. Mackie is Associate Professor of Classics at Rice University. Her interests include oral tradition, oral performance, and the representation of speech and storytelling in Homeric and other Greek poetry. She is the author of Talking Trojan: Speech and Community in the Iliad (1996) and “Song and Storytelling: An Odyssean Perspective” (1997). She has also published work on narrative style and performance in Pindar’s odes, and on the use of classical myth in Victorian and contemporary fiction. J. A. MacPhail, Jr. teaches Latin and Greek in the Classics department at New York University. His most recent publication is Porphyry’s “Homeric Questions” on the “Iliad”: Text, Translation, Commentary (2010). Antony Makrinos is a research and teaching fellow in the Greek and Latin Department, University College London. His research interests include Homer, scholarship in Byzantium (especially reception of the Homeric text with emphasis on allegorical interpretation), and

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modern reception of antiquity. He is currently working on an edition of Eustathius’ Commentary on the Odyssey (Book 1). John Marincola is Leon Golden Professor of Classics at Florida State University, Tallahassee. He is the editor of A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography (Wiley- Blackwell, 2007) and has published widely on the ancient historians. He is currently at work on a book on Hellenistic historiography. Samuel Mark is an Associate Professor in the Maritime Studies Program at Texas A&M University at Galveston. He has published on various aspects of ancient Mediterranean seafaring and shipbuilding as well as in the field of paleopathology, especially on the inci- dence of leprosy and cancer in ancient populations. Richard Martin is Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor in Classics at Stanford University, where he has taught since 2000. He works primarily on Homeric poetry and Archaic Greek performance traditions. Among his books are Healing, Sacrifice, and Battle: Amechania and Related Concepts in Early Greek Poetry (1983); The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad (1989); and Myths of the Ancient Greeks (2003). He has also published articles on Pindar, Orphic texts, the Cynics, Horace, Solon, Stesichorus, Hesiod, Greek music, the Greek novel, and Irish literature. He is currently completing a volume on hexameter poetics and at work on studies in Homeric religion. Alexander Mazarakis Ainian is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Thessaly (Volos). He directs archaeological surveys on the Cycladic island of Kythnos and the island of Skiathos, as well as excavations at Oropos (Attica), Kythnos, and Soros (Thessaly). He also conducts an underwater excavation in the ancient harbor of Kythnos. His main field of specialization is the archaeology and architecture of Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece. He is the author of From Rulers’ Dwellings to Temples: Architecture, Religion and Society in Early Iron Age Greece (1100–700 B.C.) (1997) and Homer and Archaeology (2000) (the latter in Greek). Jeremy McInerney received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992. He is now the Davidson Kennedy Term Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Folds of Parnassos: Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokis (1999) and The Cattle of the Sun: Cows and Culture in the World of the Ancient Greeks (2010), and is editing the Blackwell Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean. Elizabeth Minchin is Professor of Classics at the Australian National University, Canberra. Her research focus is oral poetry (the Homeric epics) and memory: the structures of memory that we all share; social memory and the memory store that we call collective memory; and personal (or autobiographical) memory. She is particularly interested in the evidence within the poems for these aspects of memory and what this evidence can tell us about composition and performance in this oral tradition. Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Professor of Classics at Temple University, was educated at the University of Chicago and Brown University. He has written numerous articles on epic and tragedy, as well as several books, including Plague and the Athenian Imagination: Drama, History and the Cult of Asclepius (2008). He is currently writing a monograph on epic horses and editing A Companion to Euripides for Wiley-Blackwell. Teresa Morgan is Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Oriel College, Oxford. She has written on Greek and Roman education, popular morality, Greco-Roman religions, and early Christianity. Her interests also include theoretical historiography, gender studies, and other aspects of ancient cultural history.

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Martin Mueller has taught at Northwestern University since 1976. His primary research field has been the uses of ancient epic and tragedy by European writers since the Renaissance. He has also written on Homer and Shakespeare. More recently he has become interested in the uses of information technology for traditional philological inquiries. Together with Ahuvia Kahane, he is the editor of The Chicago Homer (online). He is the general editor of WordHoard, an application for the close reading and scholarly analysis of deeply tagged texts, and one of the editors of the MONK Project, a digital environment designed to help humanities scholars discover and analyze patterns in the texts they study. James D. Muhly taught Ancient History and Near Eastern Languages at the University of Minnesota (1964–1967) and then at the University of Pennsylvania (1967–1997). He served as Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1997–2002). He has been involved in archaeological field work in Israel and in Crete and has published widely on many aspects of history and archaeology in the Aegean and the Near East, espe- cially in the field of archaeometallurgy. He was the holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Prize in 1989–1990 and was awarded the Pomerance Science Medal by the Archaeological Institute of America (1994). He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Cyprus in October 2009. Sheila Murnaghan is the Allen Memorial Professor of Greek at the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications on Homer include Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey (2nd ed. forthcoming, 2010) and introductions to new translations of the Iliad and Odyssey by Stanley Lombardo (1997, 2000). She also works on Greek tragedy, gender in classical culture, and classical reception. Shlomo Naeh is Professor of Talmudic Studies and Rabbinic Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a member of the Academy for Hebrew Language, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He has published widely on rabbinic textual culture, hermeneutics of Talmud and Midrash, and early rabbinic thought. Gregory Nagy is the author of The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry (1979; 2nd ed., 1999). Other publications include Plato’s Rhapsody and Homer’s Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens (2002); Homer’s Text and Language (2004); Homer the Classic (online, 2008; print, 2009); and Homer the Preclassic (2010). He co-edited (with Stephen A. Mitchell) the 40th anniversary second edition of Albert Lord’s The Singer of Tales (2000). He has been the Director of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC, while continuing to teach at the Harvard campus in Cambridge as the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature. Maren R. Niehoff graduated from Oxford University and since 2003 has been Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) and Philo on Jewish Identity and Culture (2001). After holding professorships at the universities of Freiburg and Heidelberg, Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier has been the Director of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens since 2001. His special field is the archaeology of Greece from the Bronze to the Archaic ages. He has authored more than 100 publications and has excavated extensively in Greece, Italy, Turkey, and Israel. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Liège and is member of the German Archaeological Institute, the Austrian Archaeological Institute, the Archaeological Institute of America, and the Archaeological Society of Athens.

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Pura Nieto Hernández completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Salamanca, Spain. She is now a Senior Lecturer at Brown University, where she teaches Greek language and literature. Her main field of research is Homer, but she is also interested in Greek literature (especially poetry) of all periods, Greek mythology and religion, and linguistics. René Nünlist is Professor of Classics at the University of Cologne. His research interests include early Greek poetry, literary criticism (ancient and modern), and papyrology (especially Menander). He is a co-founder of the Basel commentary on the Iliad (2000–) and the author of Poetologische Bildersprache in der frühgriechischen Dichtung (1998) and The Ancient Critic at Work: Terms and Concepts of Literary Criticism in Greek Scholia (2009). John K. Papadopoulos is Professor of Archaeology and Classics at the University of California at Los Angeles. His research and teaching interests include the Aegean, as well as the eastern and central Mediterranean in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, Greek colonization, the topography of Athens, and the integration of literary evidence with the material record in the study of the past. He has authored or edited eight books and over 70 articles. Zinon Papakonstantinou is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Athens. His research interests focus on the history of Archaic and Classical Greece, especially law, sport, and leisure practices. He has authored a monograph entitled Lawmaking and Adjudication in Archaic Greece (2008) and edited Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World: New Perspectives (2009). Hayden Pelliccia has taught Classics at Cornell University since 1989. He is the author of Mind, Body, and Speech in Homer and Pindar (1995) and a variety of articles on classical literature from Homer to Vergil; he has edited Selected Dialogues of Plato (2000). John Peradotto is Andrew V. V. Raymond Professor Emeritus and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His publica- tions include Classical Mythology: An Annotated Bibliographical Survey (1973); Man in the Middle Voice: Name and Narration in the Odyssey (1990); and (as editor with J. P. Sullivan) Women in the Ancient World: The Arethusa Papers (1984), and articles and reviews on Greek myth, epic, and tragedy. A founder of the classical journal Arethusa, he was its edi- tor-in-chief from 1975 to 1995. Irene Polinskaya (Department of Classics, King’s College London) specializes in the social and religious history of Greece, mainly of the Archaic and Classical periods. Her current research concerns conceptual approaches used in the study of ancient Greek reli- gion; the political, religious, and economic history of the island of Aigina, including its epigraphy and archaeology; and the leasing of public lands in Attica. Her book on the Aiginetan deities and cults is due to be published in 2011, and she is involved in prepar- ing for publication a new corpus of Greek and Latin inscriptions from the Northern Black Sea. James I. Porter is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Irvine. He is author, most recently, of The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece: Matter, Sensation, and Experience (2010) and editor of Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome (2006). His current projects include a study in the invention and reception of Homer and further studies in ancient aesthetics. Barry B. Powell is the Bascom-Halls Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Schooled at Berkeley and Harvard, he has published widely on

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Homer, the history of writing, Greek myth, and Greek history. He has lectured in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and the Americas. Presently he is writing a book on myths of the world. Louise Pratt is Associate Professor of Classics at Emory University. She is the author of Lying and Poetry from Homer to Pindar: Falsehood and Deception in Archaic Greek Poetics (1993), and is currently working on a book about representations of children and child- rearing in Greek literature. Alex C. Purves (PhD University of Pennsylvania, 2002) is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Space and Time in Ancient Greek Narrative (2010) as well as articles on Homer, Herodotus, Hesiod, and Aristophanes. Her current work on Homer focuses on the gods and their bodies. She is also co-editing (with Shane Butler) a collection of essays on the senses in antiquity. Kurt A. Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor and Professor of Classics and History Emeritus at Brown University. His research interests focus on the social, political, military, and intellectual history of Archaic and Classical Greece (including the historicity of “Homeric society”), the social and political history of the Roman Republic, and the comparative history of the ancient world. Recent publications include The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece (2004, winner of the American Historical Association’s James Henry Breasted Prize); Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (co-author, 2007); War and Peace in the Ancient World (editor, 2007); A Companion to Archaic Greece (co-editor, 2009); and Epic and History (co-editor, 2010). He is currently working on a book on Early Greek Political Thought in Its Mediterranean Context. Steve T. Reece is Professor of Classics at Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. He has published a wide variety of articles and book chapters on Homeric studies, New Testament studies, comparative oral traditions, historical linguistics, and pedagogy. He is also the author of a book about the rituals of ancient Greek hospitality titled The Stranger’s Welcome: Oral Theory and the Aesthetics of the Homeric Hospitality Scene (1993), and of a book on early Greek etymology titled Homer’s Winged Words: The Evolution of Early Greek Epic Diction in the Light of Oral Theory (2009). Yoav Rinon is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Classics at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His books include Aristotle’s Poetics: Translation, Notes and Commentary (2003 [in Hebrew]) and Homer and the Dual Model of the Tragic (2008). Hanna Roisman is the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Classics at Colby College, Waterville, Maine. She specializes in early Greek epic, Greek and Roman tragedy, and in Classics and film. In addition to articles and book chapters, she has pub- lished Nothing Is As It Seems: The Tragedy of the Implicit in Euripides’ Hippolytus (1999); Sophocles: Philoctetes (2005); and Sophocles: Electra (2008). She is co-author of The Odyssey Re-Formed (1996); of Euripides’ Alcestis (2003); and of Euripides: Electra (2010). She also serves as the editor of the Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy to be published by Wiley- Blackwell. James Romm is James H. Ottaway, Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College in Annandale, New York, and recipient of both Guggenheim and Cullman Center Fellowships. He is the author of The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought: Geography, Exploration, and Fiction (1992) and editor of The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander (2010). C. Brian Rose is James B. Pritchard Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, and Curator-in-Charge of the Mediterranean Section,

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University Museum. He has overseen the excavations of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Troy since 1991, and is co-director of the Gordion Excavations. He has been president of the Archaeological Institute of America since 2007. Andrea Rotstein is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics at Tel Aviv University. She studied General Literature at the Universidad Nacional del Sur (Bahía Blanca, Argentina) and was a graduate student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (MA, PhD) and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. She is the author of The Idea of Iambos (2010) as well as of articles dealing with ancient Greek poetry and poetics. Joseph Russo is the Audrey and John Dusseau Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Classics at Haverford College. He received his BA from Brooklyn College and his PhD from Yale University. He is co-author of A Commentary on Homer’s Odyssey (1992) and has written on Greek epic, lyric, mythology, and proverbial speech. He studies folklore as well as Classics, and is co-author (with Jack Zipes) of The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitrè (2008). Ian C. Rutherford is Professor of Greek at the University of Reading. He is author of Pindar’s Paeans (2001), and is currently working on Greek religion, particularly pilgrim- age, and its relation with the religions of Bronze Age Anatolia. Richard B. Rutherford has been Tutor in Greek and Latin Literature at Christ Church, Oxford University, since 1982. Among his publications are a commentary on Books 19 and 20 of Homer’s Odyssey (1982), and Classical Literature: A Concise History (2005). He is currently working on a book on the language of Greek tragedy. Seth L. Schein is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. He has written mainly on Homeric epic, Attic tragedy, and receptions of classical literature. His books include The Mortal Hero: An Introduction to Homer’s Iliad (1984), Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays (edited, 1996), and Sophokles’ Philoktetes: Translation with Introduction, Notes, and Interpretive Essay (2003). He is currently work- ing on a commentary on Philoktetes and a volume of interpretative essays on Homeric poetry and its reception. Renate Schlesier is Professor for the Study of Religion at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her work concentrates on Greek religion, the history of classical scholarship, and the impact of ancient myth and ritual on modern European culture, art, and literature. In this realm, she directs several research projects. She was the co-curator of an exhibition on Dionysos at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin from 2008 to 2010 and is editing the proceedings of the conference A Different God? Dionysos and Ancient Polytheism (forthcoming). Francesca Schironi is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. Her main interests are Hellenistic scholarship, papyrology, and reception stud- ies. Among her publications are the monographs I frammenti di Aristarco di Samotracia negli etimologici bizantini (2004); From Alexandria to Babylon: Near Eastern Languages and Hellenistic Erudition in the Oxyrhynchus Glossary (2009); Tò μέγα βιβλίον: Book-Ends, End-Titles, Coronides in Papyri with Hexametric Poetry (2010). Her current research focuses on Aristarchus of Samothrace, in particular on Aristarchus’ work on Homer and his methodology. Adam Schwartz is a temporary Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Copenhagen, where he received his PhD in 2005. His research focuses on ancient Greek history and literature, with particular emphasis on military history. His latest monograph, Reinstating the Hoplite: Arms, Armour and Phalanx Fighting in Archaic and Classical Greece,

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was published in the Historia Einzelschriften series in 2009. He is currently working on a book on the introduction and early use of alphabetic writing in Archaic Greece. Ruth Scodel is D. R. Shackleton Bailey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. She has published books and articles on a variety of topics in Greek literature, particularly Homer and tragedy. An Introduction to Greek Tragedy will appear in 2011 from Cambridge University Press. Stephen Scully is finishing a book, entitled Hesiod’s Theogony: From Babylonian Creation Myths to Paradise Lost. He teaches in the Department of Classical Studies at Boston University. Richard Seaford is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Exeter. His books include Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State (1994) and Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy (2004). E. S. Sherratt (Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield) specializes in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages of the Aegean, Cyprus, and the wider eastern Mediterranean, particularly in all aspects of trade and interaction within and beyond these regions. She is also interested in exploring the ways in which the Homeric epics and the archaeological record can most usefully be combined. Along with numerous articles addressing these topics, her publications include Arthur Evans, Knossos and the Priest-King (2000) and Autochthon: Papers Presented to O. T. P. K. Dickinson on the Occasion of his Retirement (2005, with A. Dakouri-Hild). Laura M. Slatkin is a Professor in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Her research interests include ancient Greek and Roman poetry, especially epic and drama; wisdom traditions in classical and Near Eastern antiquity; gender studies; anthropological approaches to the literature of the ancient Mediterranean world; and cul- tural poetics. She has published articles on Greek epic and drama; a second edition of her book The Power of Thetis was published in 2009. She has served as the editor-in-chief of Classical Philology, and has co-edited Histories of Post-War French Thought, Vol. 2: Antiquities (with G. Nagy and N. Loraux, 2001). Peter T. Struck is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His primary research interests are in ancient sign systems, including theories of the sign in literary criticism, in divination through oracles, omens, and dreams, and in medical symptomology. He has published the Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of their Texts (2004) and is currently at work on a study of Greek and Roman divination. He has edited a collection of studies on ancient divination, Mantikê (2006, with S. I. Johnston) and the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Allegory. David W. Tandy is Professor and Head of Classics at the University of Tennessee. He con- centrates on the economy and agriculture of the Archaic and Classical periods. His two current projects are studies of the intersections of economy and democracy and of the economic development of the Archaic Aegean up to about 585 bce, the latter a sequel of sorts to his Warriors into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early Greece (1997), which tackled the economies of the Homeric and Hesiodic worlds. William G. Thalmann is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. His books include Conventions of Form and Thought in Early Greek Epic Poetry (1984); The Swineherd and the Bow: Representations of Class in the Odyssey (1998); and a forthcoming book on the production of space in Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica.

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Christos Tsagalis is Associate Professor of Greek Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has published on Homer, Hesiod, Greek historiography, and epigram. He is the author of Epic Grief: Personal Laments in Homer’s Iliad (2004); The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics (2008); and Inscribing Sorrow: Fourth-Century Attic Funerary Epigrams (2008). He has co-edited (with F. Montanari and A. Rengakos) Brill’s Companion to Hesiod (2009) and edited a special issue on Homeric Hypertextuality (Trends in Classics 2.2, 2010). Thomas Van Nortwick is Nathan A. Greenberg Professor of Classics at Oberlin College, where he has taught since 1974. He has published scholarly articles on Greek and Latin literature, autobiographical essays, and five books, Somewhere I Have Never Travelled: The Second Self and the Hero’s Journey in Ancient Epic (1992); Compromising Traditions: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship (1997, with Judith Hallett); Oedipus: The Meaning of a Masculine Life (1998); Imagining Men: Ideals of Masculinity in Ancient Greek Culture (2008); and The Unknown Odysseus: Alternate Worlds in Homer’s Odyssey (2009). He is a contributing editor of North Dakota Quarterly. Hans van Wees is Professor of Ancient History at University College London. He is the author of Status Warriors: War, Violence and Society in Homer and History (1992) and Greek Warfare: Myths and Realities (2004), as well as numerous articles on Homer, Archaic Greece, and warfare. He has (co-)edited several volumes, including most recently the Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare (2007) and the Blackwell Companion to Archaic Greece (2009). K. Janet Watson teaches Greek at Newcastle University, UK. Her research interests include Homer and ancient Greek oral tradition, and she is the editor of Speaking Volumes: Orality and Literacy in the Greek and Roman World (2001) and Homer Odyssey VI & VII (2002). Martin L. West was a Fellow and Praelector in Classics at University College, Oxford from 1963 to 1974, then a Professor of Greek in the University of London until 1991, then a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford; since his retirement in 2004 he has been an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an exter- nal member of three foreign Academies. In 2000 he was awarded the international Balzan Prize for Classical Antiquity. He has published critical editions of the Iliad (1998–2000) and various other Greek poetic texts, besides a series of books that include Greek Metre (1982); Ancient Greek Music (1992); The East Face of Helicon (1997); Indo-European Poetry and Myth (2007); and The Making of the Iliad (2010). Malcolm H. Wiener is Chair of the Institute for Aegean Prehistory. Author of numerous works with a principal focus on Minoan Crete and the Minoan thalassocracy, Mycenaean Greece plus Homer, and interconnections between the Aegean, Egypt, the Near East, and Anatolia. He is a member or Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Society of Antiquaries, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, and the Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut. He is the recipient of Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Sheffield, Tübingen, Athens, Cincinnati, and University College London, and of the Gold Ring of Honor of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz. He was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. John M. Wilkins is Professor of Classics at the University of Exeter, UK. He is a specialist in the history of food and medicine in Greco-Roman culture. His publications include Food in Antiquity (1995, with David Harley and Michael Dobson); Food in European Literature (1996); Athenaeus and his World (2000, with David Braund); The Rivals of

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Aristophanes (2000, with D. Harvey); The Boastful Chef: The Discourse of Food in Ancient Greek Comedy (2000); and Food in the Ancient World (2006, with Shaun Hill). Andreas Willi is Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford. His research interests include Greek, Latin, and Indo-European comparative grammar, Greek dialectology, and the history of Greek as a literary language. He is the author of The Languages of Aristophanes (2003) and Sikelismos: Sprache, Literatur und Gesellschaft im griechischen Sizilien (2008). Assaf Yasur-Landau is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Maritime Civilization at the University of Haifa. He is the author of The Philistines and Aegean Migration at the End of the Late Bronze Age (2010) and co-director of the excavations of the Canaanite palace at Tel Kabri. Alexei Zadorojnyi is Lecturer in Greek Language and Literature at the University of Liverpool. His research interests include Greek historiography and biography, Greco- Roman literary criticism and education, aspects of ancient intertextuality, and the relationship between literature and philosophy. Froma I. Zeitlin is Charles Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She specializes in Greek lit- erature from the Archaic period to the Second Sophistic, with emphasis on epic, drama, and ancient prose fiction, with interests in myth and ritual, gender studies, and relations between art and text.

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