ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS RICHARD FERNANDO BUXTON received his PhD from the University of Washington and is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Colorado College. He is particularly interested in the depiction of stasis in Classical Greek historians. He has published on Xenophon, Herodotus , and Athenian coinage. JOHN DILLERY is a Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. He has written widely on Greek historiography, especially Xenophon, Herodotus, and Hellenistic histori- ography. He is the author most recently of Clio’s Other Sons: Berossus and Manetho, with an Afterword on Demetrius the Chronographer (Ann Arbor 2345). MICHAEL A. FLOWER is Professor of Classics at Princeton University. His research interests are in Greek history, historiography, and religion. He is the author of Theopompus of Chios: History and Rhetoric in the Fourth Century BC (Oxford 499:), Herodotus: Histories, Book IX (with John Marincola, Cambridge 2332), The Seer in Ancient Greece (Berkeley 233;), Xenophon’s Anabasis or The Expedition of Cyrus (Oxford 2342), and co-editor (with Mark Toher) of Georgica: Greek Studies in Honour of George Cawkwell (London 4994). He has also written a series of articles on Spartan society. Most recently, he has edited the Cambridge Companion to Xenophon (Cambridge, forthcoming 234<). LUUK HUITINK studied in Amsterdam and Oxford, where he gained his PhD. Having worked as the Leventis Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, he is currently iv About the Contributors a post-doctoral research associate at the ERC Project ‘Ancient Narrative’ at the University of Heidelberg, where he is preparing a monograph on the ancient readerly imagination. He is the author of several articles on linguistic and narratological topics in Greek literature. He is a co- author of the Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (Cambridge, forthcoming) and is preparing a commentary on Xenophon’s Anabasis III and IV together with Tim Rood (Cambridge, forthcoming). BENJAMIN KEIM received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and is currently Assistant Professor of Classics at Pomona College. His research explores the nature of honour and its negotiation by individuals and their communities throughout the ancient Greek world. His current project, City of Honour: The Politics of Honour in Democratic Athens , examines the institutional and ideological evolution of τιµή within Classical Athenian democracy. FRANCES POWNALL (Professor, University of Alberta) is the author of Lessons From the Past: The Moral Use of History in Fourth-Century Prose (Ann Arbor 233:), and a number of translations and historical commentaries on important fragmentary Greek historians in Brill’s New Jacoby . She has published widely on Greek history and historiography of the Classical and Hellenistic periods. TIM ROOD is Professor of Greek Literature and Dorothea Gray Fellow and Tutor in Classics at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. He is the author of Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation (Oxford 499;); The Sea! The Sea! The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination (London 233:); and American Anabasis: Xenophon and the Idea of America from the Mexican War to Iraq (London 2343). He has also written many articles on Greek historiography and its reception. About the Contributors v MELINA TAMIOLAKI (PhD Paris-Sorbonne 233B) is an Assistant Professor in Classics at the University of Crete (Department of Philology). She specialises in Greek historiography. Her book, Liberté et esclavage chez les historiens grecs classiques (Paris 2343), a revised version of her disser- tation, won the Zappas Award of the Association des Etudes Grecques de Paris in 2344. She has published some thirty articles and has also edited two collections: Thucydides Between History and Literature (with Antonis Tsakmakis, Berlin 234F) and Κωµικός Στέφανος, Νέες Τάσεις στην Έρευνα της Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Κωµωδίας (Comic Wreath: New Trends in the Study of Ancient Greek Comedy , Rethymnon 234:). .