History. During his graduate studies at the University of Notre Dame, his interests expanded to include ancient epic and the interaction between the epic tradition and ancient historiography. His MA thesis, entitled Addita Fati Peioris Manifesta Fides, examines the connections between prodigy passages in Tacitus' Annals and Lucan's Pharsalia. He completed his MA from Notre Dame in 2018.
Matt Waters is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He received his PhD in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of A Survey of Neo‐Elamite History (State Archives of Assyria Studies XII, 2000), Ancient Persia (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and Ctesias’ Persica and Its Near Eastern Context (University of Wisconsin Press, 2017), and his work has appeared in numerous journals in Classics and Near Eastern studies.
Melody Wauke is a candidate in the MA program in Classics at the University of Notre Dame. Her research interests include epic poetry and Latin and Greek paleography.
Marek Wecowski (MA Warsaw, PhD Paris, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Warsaw. He was a Junior Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, and a Fulbright Visiting Professor at Princeton University. His research interests include archaic Greek poetry, Greek historiography, and archaic and classical Greek history. His published works include The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet (Oxford 2014). The English translation of his recent book on the original purpose of Athenian ostracism is in preparation. He currently directs a research grant on early Greek aristocracy and aristocratic culture.
Christopher Welser teaches Ancient History at Colby College in Maine. His interests include historiography and Athenian democracy. His first two published articles were on Herodotus (Classical Antiquity, 2009 and Mnemosyne, 2010).
Christian Wendt is Professor of Ancient History at the Freie Universität Berlin and head of the Berlin Thucydides Center. His publications include Sine fine (2008) and numerous articles on Greek historiography and political thought, ancient international law, and the reception of Thucydides in modern political theory. He is the co‐editor of 2000 Jahre Varusschlacht (2012), Ein Besitz für immer? Geschichte, Polis und Völkerrecht bei Thukydides (2011), Thucydides and Political Order (2 vols.) (2016), and Seemacht, Seeherrschaft und die Antike (2016).
Katharina Wesselmann is Professor of Didactics of Ancient Languages at the Christian‐Albrechts‐University in Kiel, Germany. She gained her doctorate in Classics in 2011 from Basel University, where she continued to work as a postdoctoral fellow. Her main areas of interest are Greek historiography, early Greek epic, and didactics of ancient languages. There is a shorter English version of her book, Mythische Erzählstrukturen in Herodots Historien, which is published on the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies’ website (http://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/5570) and explores mythical story patterns in Herodotus. At present, she is co‐editing a volume on lists and catalogues in ancient literature, and working on a commentary on Book 7 of Homer’s Iliad.
Everett L. Wheeler Scholar in Residence at Duke University, has published widely on ancient military history and military theorists (ancient and modern). His books include Stratagem and the Vocabulary of Military Trickery (1988), Polyaenus, Stratagems of War (translated with Peter Krentz, 1994), and The Armies of Classical Greece (2007). He was a contributor to The Landmark Herodotus (2007) and currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Military History and Revue internationale d’histoire militaire ancienne.
James White is a graduate student in the history department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include Greek historiography of the Near East, the Achaemenid Persian Empire, and military technology in the ancient world.
Josef Wiesehöfer is a retired Professor of Ancient History at Kiel University (Germany). He specializes in the study of Pre‐Islamic Iran, the connections between the cultures of the Mediterranean and those of the Ancient Near East and Central Asia as well as the history of scholarship. He is the author of Ancient Persia (Tauris, 2001) and main editor of the series Oriens et Occidens.
Carolyn Willekes holds a PhD in Greek and Roman Studies. She teaches at Mount Royal University. Her area of specialty is the history of horses and horse cultures, as well as human‐animal relationships in the ancient world. She is the author of From Bucephalus to the Hippodrome: The Horse in the Ancient World (I. B. Tauris, 2016).
Maria Elizabeth G. Xanthou is Harvard CHS Research Associate in Pindaric Studies and Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol. She teaches Greek and Roman civilization at Hellenic Open University. She specializes in Greek lyric poetry, Attic comedy, and rhetoric. Her research interests lie also in the history of emotions, Greek interstate relations, the resilience of communities, e‐learning and hybrid pedagogy in teaching Greek and Latin. She published a commentary in Greek on Isocrates’ On the Peace and Against Sophists. Her current project concerns a commentary on Pindar’s Nemean odes. She is also involved in a large‐scale research project and examines the resilience of Greek and Roman communities.
Ioannis Xydopoulos teaches ancient Greek history as an Associate Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. The author of several works on ancient Macedonia, his interests now center on issues of identity, perception, and violence. Recent publications include “Euergetes and euergesia in Inscriptions for Public Benefactors from Macedonia,” AWE 17 (2018), 83–117; “The theorodokoi Inscription from Nemea (SEG 36, 331) and the Date of IG IV, 583,” ΤΕΚΜΗΡΙΑ 13 (2015–2016), 173–191; and a co‐edited volume (with K. Vlassopoulos and E. Tounta), Violence and Community: Law, Space and Identity in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World (Routledge, 2017).
David Yates is an Associate Professor of Classics at Millsaps College. He specializes in the history and historiography of archaic and classical Greece. He is the author of numerous articles and is currently working on a book about the Greek memory of the Persian War.
Mehmet Fatih Yavuz is Associate Professor of Ancient History at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. He participated in the Granicus Survey Project and is a member of the ongoing Thracian Chersonese survey project. His research focuses mainly on the history of the Propontis and its outlets, the Hellespont and the Thracian Bosporus.
Vasiliki Zali is University Teacher in Classical Studies at the University of Liverpool. She has research interests in Herodotus and his reception, as well as in the use of narrative techniques and rhetoric in classical Greek historiography. She is the author of The Shape of Herodotean Rhetoric (Brill, 2014) and co‐editor of Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond (Brill, 2016).
Angela Zautcke is a PhD student of Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on religions of the ancient Mediterranean basin and their development and shared influences during the classical and Hellenistic periods.
Marcus Ziemann is a PhD candidate in Classics at The Ohio State University. He is working on a dissertation on the relationship between the Iliad and the Epic of Gilgamesh that reanalyzes the Orientalizing Revolution in terms of a globalization of the East Mediterranean.
Antigoni Zournatzi is Director of Research at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (Athens, Greece). Her special areas of study are the
