in the School of Architecture) at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis (1995), creator of the exhibit The Genesis of Monumental Architecture in Greece: the Corinth Project (2006), and editor of The Acquisition and Exhibition of Classical Antiquities: Professional, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives (2007). His current projects include a monograph on The Seventh Century Temple on Temple Hill in Corinth and preparation of an exhibition on Greek kaikia.
Adrian Robu is Researcher at the Romanian Academy (Institute for South‐East European Studies), Associate Researcher at the Berlin Academy (Inscriptiones Graecae Department), and lecturer at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris). His current research concerns the history, the institutions, and the epigraphy of the Greek cities from the archaic to the Roman period. He has published Mégare et les établissements mégariens de Sicile, de la Propontide et du Pont‐Euxin. Histoire et institutions (Bern: Peter Lang, 2014), and he is the co‐editor of Mégarika. Nouvelles recherches sur Mégare et les cités de la Propontide et du Pont‐Euxin. Archéologie, épigraphie, histoire (Paris: de Boccard, 2016).
Robert Rollinger is Professor of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Leopold‐Franzens University of Innsbruck. His main research areas are the history of the Ancient Near East and the Achaemenid Empire, contacts between the Aegean world and the Ancient Near East, and ancient historiography. Recent publications include: Imperien in der Weltgeschichte. Epochenübergreifende und globalhistorische Vergleiche (co‐edited; 2014); Mesopotamia in the Ancient World. Impact, Continuities, Parallels (co‐edited; 2015); and Alexander und die großen Ströme. Die Flussüberquerungen im Lichte altorientalischer Pioniertechniken (2013).
James Romm is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College and author of several books on Greek history, including The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought (Princeton 1992) and Herodotus (Yale 1998). He has also annotated a translation of Herodotus’ Histories published by Hackett Press.
Jessica M. Romney is Assistant Professor (Classics) in the Department of Humanities at MacEwan University in Canada. Her research examines the construction of ancient identity via literary production, focusing on how text, social context, and audience interactions together create and/or maintain Greek socio‐political and ethnic identities. She has published on sympotic identity and Spartan civic identity, and her current research examines how archaic and classical authors use food and geography to construct social and ethnic identities.
Margaret Cool Root is a Professor Emerita (Department of the History of Art) and a Curator Emerita (Kelsey Museum of Archaeology) at the University of Michigan. Beginning with her first book, The King and Kingship in Achaemenid Art (1979), she has published widely on Persian architecture, sculpture, seals, imperial ideology, and historiography.
Eric Ross is an Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at the University of North Dakota. He specializes in the study of Greek historiography, Presocratic philosophy, and classical reception in film. His most recent publication is a paper on the heroic depiction of Leonidas in Herodotus and the film 300, forthcoming in The Golden Ages of Classical Antiquity on Screen.
Sydnor Roy is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Texas Tech University. She specializes in the study of race, ethnicity, and politics in Greek historiography, most notably, Herodotus. She is the co‐author of Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World (Hackett, 2013, with R. Kennedy and M. Goldman). Her current project is a monograph on political theory in Herodotus’ Histories.
Catherine Rubincam is Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. She specializes in Greek historiography. Her current project is a database containing quantifiable information on every number in the texts of the major Greek historians, and a monograph entitled Quantifying Mentalities: Numbers in Ancient Greek Historiography. Recent publications include: “New and Old Approaches to Diodorus: Can they be reconciled?” in L. I. Hau, A. Meeus, and B. Sheridan (eds.), Diodoros of Sicily: Historiographical Theory and Practice in the Bibliotheke (2018) 13–41; “The ‘Rationality’ of Herodotus and Thucydides as Evidenced by their Respective Use of Numbers,” in Donald Lateiner and Edith Foster (eds.), Thucydides and Herodotus (2012) 97–122; “The Numeric Practice of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia,” Mouseion 9 (2009 [2012]), 303–29.
Kai Ruffing is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Kassel. Current areas of research are the economic and social history of the Greek and Roman world, the contacts between the Mediterranean world and the Ancient Near East, the perception of the East in classical sources, Classical receptions, and the geography of the ancient world. Recent publications on Herodotus include Herodots Quellen—Die Quellen Herodots (edited with Boris Dunsch: Wiesbaden, 2013 (CLeO 6)) and “Gifts for Cyrus, Tribute for Darius,” in Thomas Harrison and Elizabeth Irwin (eds.), Interpreting Herodotus (Oxford, 2018), 149–61.
Kelcy Sagstetter is a Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy, specializing in archaic and classical Greek history and culture. Her areas of research include archaic tyranny, the reforms and legislation of Solon of Athens, the transition from tyranny to democracy in Athens, the Athenian Empire, and epigraphy.
Carlo Scardino is a Senior Lecturer at the Heinrich‐Heine‐Universität Düsseldorf. He specializes in the study of the historical writing of ancient Greece and Rome as well as late antiquity and Graeco‐Arabica. He is the author of Gestaltung und Funktion der Reden bei Herodot und Thukydides (De Gruyter, 2007) and Edition antiker landwirtschaftlicher Werke in arabischer Sprache (De Gruyter, 2015). His next large‐scale project is an edition of Anatolius Arabicus.
Ulrich Schädler classical archaeologist, who received his PhD from the University of Frankfurt (Germany), is director of the Swiss Museum of Games at La Tour‐de‐Peilz and Honorary Professor at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. His main areas of interest are Greek architecture, Greek and Roman sculpture, and in particular the cultural history of games. Among numerous other publications on the subject, he authored the entry “Games, Greek and Roman,” in The Wiley‐Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Ancient History, edited by Roger S. Bagnall et al. (2012). He is co‐editor of Ludographie—Spiel und Spiele and the Board Game Studies Journal.
Andreas Schwab is Professor of Ancient Greek Philology and Religious Studies of Antiquity at the Ludwig‐Maximilians‐University of Munich (LMU) and Privatdozent at the Ruprecht‐Karls‐University of Heidelberg. He has published articles on ancient Greek philosophy, literature and issues of reception, and he is the author of Thales von Milet in der frühen christlichen Literatur (Berlin/Boston 2012) and Fremde Religion in Herodots Historien: religiöse Mehrdimensionalität bei Persern und Ägypten (Hermes‐Einzelschriften, Stuttgart 2019). He co‐edited The Reception of the Homeric Hymns (Oxford, 2016) and is co‐editing a new multidisciplinary volume on Herodotean Soundings: The Cambyses Logos.
Matthew A. Sears is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of New Brunswick. He has published articles and chapters on ancient Greek history and historiography, especially warfare and the interactions between Greeks and non‐Greeks. He is the author of Athens, Thrace, and the Shaping of Athenian Leadership (Cambridge, 2013) and Understanding Greek Warfare (Routledge, 2019).
Anastasia Serghidou served as Assistant Professor at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete. She is currently an associated scientific member of the AnHiMa UMR 8210, Paris (Centre d’Anthropologie d’Histoire et des Mondes Anciens). Her research interests have focused upon the relationship between the intellectual and cultural issues
