Notes on Contributors
André Lardinois is Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His main field of study is archaic and classical Greek poetry. Among his publications are Making Silence Speak: Women’s Voices in Greek Literature and Society, edited with Laura McClure (Princeton University Press, 2001), Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches (Brill, 2006), edited with Josine Blok, and The Newest Sappho (Brill, 2016), edited with Anton Bierl.
Marek Węcowski is an associate professor of ancient history at the University of Warsaw. His research interests include archaic Greek poetry, early Greek historiography, and archaic and classical Greek cultural history. His recent publications include The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet (Oxford University Press, 2014) and the co-edited (with Ł. Niesiołowski-Spano’) collection of papers Change, Continuity, and Connectivity. The North-Eastern Mediterranean at the Turn of the Bronze Age and in the Early Iron Age (Harrassowitz, 2018). His new book is entitled Athenian Ostracism and its Original Purpose. A Prisoner’s Dilemma (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Gunnel Ekroth is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University. She has published extensively on ancient Greek religion, in particular sacrificial ritual, including the co-edited (with J. Wallensten) Bones, Behaviour and Beliefs (Svenska Institutet i Athen, 2013).
Christel Müller is Professor of Greek History at Paris Nanterre University and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She has extensively published on Greek cities and institutions, including D’Olbia à Tanaïs : Territoires et réseaux d’échanges dans la Mer Noire septentrionale aux époques classique et hellénistique (Ausonius Éditions, 2010) and Statuts personnels et espaces sociaux : questions grecques et romaines (with Claudia Moatti, Éditions de Boccard, 2018).
Kostas Buraselis is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and former Vice-Rector at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is author of monographs: Das hellenistische Makedonien und die Ägäis (C.H. Beck, 1982); Kos between Hellenism and Rome (American Philosophical Society, 2000); Theia Dorea (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2007);
Kurt A. Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor and Professor of Classics and History emeritus at Brown University and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute. His main fields of interest are the social, political, and intellectual history of archaic and classical Greece and the Roman Republic, war and peace, and the comparative history of the ancient world from a global perspective. His The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece (University of Chicago Press, 2004) received the American Historical Association’s James Henry Breasted Prize.
Nino Luraghi is the Wykeham Professor of Greek History at the University of Oxford and a fellow of New College. He has published broadly on Greek historiography, the history of the ancient Peloponnese, ethnicity in ancient Greece and tyranny and other forms of monarchic rule.
Rosalind Thomas is Professor of Greek History, University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. She has written extensively on literacy and orality—Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens (Cambridge University Press, 1989), Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece (Cambridge University Press, 1992)—on Greek law, and Greek historiography. Herodotus in Context: Ethnography, Science and the Art of Persuasion (Cambridge University Press) appeared in 2000. Polis Histories, Collective Memories and the Greek World (Cambridge University Press, 2019) reexamined and reframed the phenomenon of ‘local histories’ of the Greek world in cultural and political as well as historiographical terms.
Oswyn Murray is an emeritus Fellow of Balliol College Oxford, and author of The Symposion: Drinking Greek Style (Oxford University Press, 2018), and History and the Ancient Greeks (forthcoming).
Irad Malkin (PhD, Univerity of Pennsylvania) is Professor emeritus of Greek history at Tel Aviv University, a Visiting Professor at Oxford, and a co-founder and co-editor of the Mediterranean Historical Review (1986–2019). He is the Israel Prize Laureate for History for 2014 and a Foreign Member of the Athens National Academy. His research interests include ancient colonization, religion, myth, ethnicity, and network theory, and the role of drawing lots in antiquity and modern democracies. Major publications include Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece (Brill, 1987), Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean (Cambridge University Press, 1994; French: Les Belles Lettres, 1999); The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity (University of California Press, 1998; Italian: Carocci, 2004, Hebrew: Yediot Acharanot, 2004), Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Greece (Hebrew, Israel Ministry of Defense Publishing House, 2003), A Small Greek World: Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean (Oxford University Press, 2011; French: Les Belles Lettres, 2018; Greek forthcoming).
Hans-Joachim Gehrke is Professor emeritus of Ancient History at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and former President of the German Archaeological Institute at Berlin. He has done research mainly in the fields of social conflicts and coherence, formation of collective bodies and their respective concepts of the past, and the relationship between settlement patterns and political constitutions. He is editor of Making Civilizations. The World before 600 (Harvard University Press, 2020).
Maurizio Giangiulio is Professor of Greek History at the University of Trento (I). He has published extensively on the Greek West, Pythagoreanism, Herodotus, and democracy in the Greek world. Among his latest publications are Democrazie greche (Carocci, 2015) and “Traditional Narratives, Historiography, and Truth. On the Historicity of Herodotus’ Histories” (in A. Moeller, ed. Historiographie und Vergangenheitsvorstellungen in der Antike. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019). He is currently leading a national research project on Delphic verse oracles in Herodotus.
François de Polignac is Directeur d’Études at the École Pratique des Hautes Études—PSL, Paris. His works, since the publication of Cults, Territory and the Origins of the Greek City-State (University of Chicago Press, 1995), bear on the relations between religion, society and institutions in Ancient Greece.
Lin Foxhall is Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool. She also serves as Editor of the Journal of Hellenic Studies (Cambridge University Press). She has written extensively on agriculture, land use and gender in the ancient Mediterranean, and especially the Greek world, mostly between the Bronze Age and Classical periods. Her publications include Interrogating Networks: Investigating networks of Knowledge in Antiquity (Oxbow Books 2021), Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece: Seeking the Ancient Economy (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge is professor at the Collège de France (Paris) after having been researcher at the FNRS (Belgium) and teaching at the University of Liège. She is the author of many publications on ancient Greek religion, among which the following books: L’Aphrodite grecque (Presses Universitaires de Liège, 1994), Retour à la source. Pausanias et la religion grecque (Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2008), Le Polythéisme grec à l’épreuve d’Hérodote (Les Belles Lettres, 2020), and The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse (Cambridge University Press, 2022), with Gabriella Pironti (French original: Les Belles Lettres, 2016).
Josine Blok is professor emerita of Ancient History and Classical Civilization at Utrecht University. She publishes widely on the political, social, and religious history of archaic and classical Greece, with a special interest in ancient Greek citizenship and in comparative citizenship studies. In 2017, she published Citizenship in Classical Athens (Cambridge University Press).