Acknowledgments
I would like to thank the Wellcome Trust for sponsoring the conference where this volume originated, along with the Institute of Classical Studies in London, which hosted the event in September 2017, and Greg Woolf for his support as Director. Above all else, I am grateful once again to the Wellcome Trust for generously funding my fellowships in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick at the time when this project began, as well as during the preparation of this volume. I would also like to thank the Excellence Cluster ROOTS at Kiel University, with which I have been affiliated during the final phases of preparation of the manuscript, for its generous help and backing. I am grateful to all the participants in the original conference for both their written contributions and their constructive discussion there. Simon Swain was very helpful and positive about this project from the start, and offered precious advice before and during the preparation of the volume. The authors and I also benefitted immensely from the comments and constructive criticism offered by numerous readers and peer-reviewers, which have made a great difference in matters large and small. Among them, it is a particular pleasure to mention the anonymous reader at Brill who offered insightful advice, and Philip van der Eijk for his constant interest in the project and support. S. Douglas Olson’s editorial expertise was vital in converting the various individual manuscripts into their final published form. Finally, Giulia Moriconi, Dinah Rapliza and the rest of the team at the press deserve warm thanks for their assistance throughout.
Chiara Thumiger