prior to the advent of Islam. His interests range from seals, coins, and drinking vessels to questions of historiography, identity, and globalization. His first book, Archaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt, is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press.
Susan D. Collins is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She is co‐translator of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, author of Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship, and co‐editor of Action and Contemplation: Studies in the Moral and Political Thought of Aristotle.
Stephen Colvin is Professor of Classics and Historical Linguistics at University College London. His areas of interest include the Greek dialects and the koinē, Greek verbal aspect, and the sociolinguistic culture of the ancient world. He has written books and articles on various aspects of the Greek language and linguistic culture, most recently A Brief History of Ancient Greek (Wiley, 2014).
Aldo Corcella is Professor of Classical Philology at the Università della Basilicata. He specializes in the study of ancient historiography and rhetoric (the school of Gaza and its tradition in the Byzantine world) as well as the history of classical scholarship. Among his works are a commentary on Herodotus’ Book 4 (in A Commentary on Herodotus Books I–IV, edited by Oswyn Murray and Alfonso Moreno, Oxford University Press, 2007) and the volume Friedrich Spiro filologo e libraio. Per una storia della S. Calvary & Co. (Bari: Edizioni Dedalo, 2014).
Monica S. Cyrino is Professor of Classics at the University of New Mexico. Her research centers on the reception of the ancient world on screen. She is the author of Big Screen Rome (Blackwell, 2005) and Aphrodite (Routledge, 2010); editor of Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Rome, Season One: History Makes Television (Blackwell, 2008), and Rome, Season Two: Trial and Triumph (Edinburgh, 2015); and co‐editor of Classical Myth on Screen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and STARZ Spartacus: Reimagining an Icon on Screen (Edinburgh, 2017). She has published numerous essays and gives lectures around the world on the representation of classical antiquity on screen. She has served as an academic consultant on several recent film and television productions.
Catherine Darbo‐Peschanski is researcher at the French National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS). She has firstly worked on historia as a genuine Greek category of empiric knowledge, then on a phenomenology of Greek experience of the world (modes of presence and of action) and currently on the animate body and its inside and outside spaces. Her publications include L’historia. Commencements grecs (Paris, 2007), of which Chapter 4 appears in English translation in Herodotus: Volume 2, Herodotus and the World, edited by Rosaria Vignolo Munson (Oxford, 2013, 78–106); “Place and Nature of Memory in Greek Historiography” in Greek Memory. Theories and Practice, edited by L. Castagnoli and P. Ceccarelli (Cambridge, 2018, 117–42).
Véronique Dasen is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Her interests include history of medicine and the body, gender studies, history of childhood, history of twins, magic, and ludic culture. She is the author of Le sourire d’Omphale. Maternité et petite enfance dans l’Antiquité (Rennes, 2015); Agir. Identité(s) des médecins antiques. Histoire, médecine et santé (Toulouse, 2015); with J.‐M. Spieser (eds.), Les savoirs magiques et leur transmission de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance (Florence, 2014); with Helen King, La médecine dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine (Lausanne, 2008); Jumeaux, jumelles dans l'Antiquité grecque et romaine (Kilchberg, 2005); and Dwarfs in Ancient Egypt and Greece (Oxford, 2013 [orig. 1993]).
Gil Davis is the Director, Program for Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Macquarie University (Sydney) where he teaches Greek history, and is Managing Editor of the Journal of the Numismatic Association of Australia. His main research interests are Athenian history, numismatics, and compositional analysis of coins. He is working on a new history of archaic Athens based on evidence from a die study and metallurgical analysis of coinage (Cambridge, forthcoming with K. Sheedy) and is co‐editing Volume 6 in the series Metallurgy in Numismatics (Royal Numismatic Society, forthcoming). He is a partner in the ERC Advanced Grant—Silver Isotopes and the Rise of Money. He co‐edited Registers and Modes of Communications in the Ancient Near East (Routledge, 2018).
Mathieu de Bakker is University Lecturer in Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in ancient historiography and oratory. He is co‐editor (with Emily Baragwanath) of the volume Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus (Oxford, 2012) and co‐author (with Evert van Emde Boas, Albert Rijksbaron, and Luuk Huitink) of the Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (Cambridge, 2018).
Julian Degen is a postgraduate at the University of Innsbruck. His master’s thesis, titled “Dimensions of Hellenic and Ancient Near Eastern Violence in Herodotus’ Histories,” will be published soon. He has published several articles about Herodotus and ancient Near Eastern motives in Greek historiography. Currently he is working on his dissertation with the title “The Oriental Face of Alexander: An Appraisal.”
Denise Demetriou is an Associate Professor and the Gerry and Jeannie Ranglas Endowed Chair in Ancient Greek History in the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include ancient Greek religion, identities in the ancient Mediterranean, and Greco‐Phoenician international diplomacy. She is the author of Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean: The Archaic and Classical Greek Multiethnic Emporia (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and a co‐editor of Approaching the Ancient Artifact: Representation, Narrative, and Function (De Gruyter, 2014).
Paul Demont is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Paris–Sorbonne. He has published numerous articles on disease in the ancient Greek world, the Hippocratics, and Herodotus’ method of historical inquiry. His most recent work includes “Le Nomos‐Roi: Hérodote, III, 38,” in Hérodote. Formes de pensée, figures du récit, edited by Jean Alaux (Rennes 2013), 37–45, and “Herodotus on Health and Disease,” in Herodotus: Narrator, Scientist, Historian, edited by Ewen Bowie (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018).
Carolyn Dewald taught for many years at the University of Southern California, and is now an Emerita Professor of History and Classics from Bard College. She is the author of Thucydides' War Narrative: a Structural Study (2006) and the co‐editor, with John Marincola, of The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus (2006). She has written a number of articles on ancient Greek historiography and is currently co‐editing with Rosaria Munson a commentary on Herodotus Book 1 for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series.
John Dillery is Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. He focuses on the study of ancient Greek historical writing of the classical and Hellenistic periods, and in particular on the interaction of Greek and non‐Greek ways of curating the past. He is the author of a monograph on Xenophon, several articles on Herodotus, and most recently a volume entitled: Clio’s Other Sons. Berossus and Manetho, with an afterword on Demetrius (University of Michigan Press, 2015).
Matthew Dillon is the Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia. He publishes on Greek religion and Greek history. His most recent book is Omens and Oracles: Divination in Ancient Greece (Routledge, 2017).
Katrin Dolle teaches Ancient Greek and Biblical Greek at the Justus‐Liebig‐University of Giessen. She specializes in the literature of late antiquity as well as texts on ancient medicine and architecture. She is the author of “Herodots Gastmahl des Attaginos” (Antike und Abendland 58.1 (2012): 16–36) and, together with Annette Weissenrieder, Körper und Verkörperung—Biblische Anthropologie
