The Herodotus Encyclopedia. Группа авторов
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 of the ancient Greeks. She specializes in ancient slavery and works in intellectual domains such as the reception of ancient emotions, historical monumentality, classical reception, and historiography. These issues are mainly reflected in her book Servitude tragique, esclaves et héros déchus dans la tragedie grecque (Besançon: PUFC, 2010).
Valeria Sergueenkova is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati and specializes in the fields of ancient historiography and the history of science. She is currently preparing a book about the scope and methods of Herodotean history (A Science of the Past: Herodotus’ Histories between Nature and Culture). She is the author of articles on numbers and calculations in Herodotus, smells in classical antiquity, and ancient interactions with Bronze and Iron Age monuments in Anatolia.
Susan O. Shapiro is an Associate Professor of History and Classics at Utah State University. Her research focuses on Herodotus and Greek intellectual history; she has also written on Catullus. She is currently working on a monograph on the Seven Sages of archaic Greece.
Graham Shipley is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Leicester. His research interests include ancient Greek geographers as well as Hellenistic history, the city‐state, Sparta, and rural landscapes. His most recent books are Pseudo‐Skylax’s Periplous (Exeter, 2011; 2nd edition forthcoming, Liverpool, 2019) and The Early Hellenistic Peloponnese (Cambridge, 2018).
Matthew Simonton is an Assistant Professor of History at Arizona State University. His work focuses on ancient Greek politics, social conflict, and institutional history. He is the author of Classical Greek Oligarchy: A Political History (Princeton, 2017).
Joseph Skinner is Lecturer in Ancient Greek History at Newcastle University. His research interests include the history of ancient ethnographic thought and its reception, Herodotus’ Histories, and ancient Greek identity. He has published The Invention of Greek Ethnography: From Homer to Herodotus (New York, 2012), and (as co‐editor, with Eran Almagor) Ancient Ethnography: New Approaches (London, 2013). He is currently working on his next monograph, Neglected Ethnographies: The Visual and Material.
Alexander Skufca defended his PhD dissertation, “From Alexandria to Rome: Diodorus Siculus on Late Hellenistic Politics and Universal History,” at Florida State University in 2019. His research centers on ancient historiography, biography, and political theory. He is interested in universal history and has published articles on Diodorus Siculus and Cornelius Nepos.
Zoe Stamatopoulou is an Associate Professor of Classics at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Hesiod and Classical Greek Poetry: Reception and Transformation in the Fifth Century BCE (Cambridge University Press, 2017). She has also published several articles on Greek literature.
Bernd Steinbock is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. He studied Latin, Greek, and History at the universities of Erlangen‐Nuremberg and Freiburg in Germany before completing his PhD in Classics at the University of Michigan. His research interests lie at the point where history and literary texts intersect. His book Social Memory in Athenian Public Discourse: Uses and Meanings of the Past (2012) explores the manifestation, transmission, and contestation of collective memory in classical Athens. He is currently working on the trauma of the Sicilian Expedition in Athenian social memory.
Lester Stephens is a PhD candidate in the departments of Classics and History at Yale University. His contributions to The Herodotus Encyclopedia materialized while obtaining an MA in Classics (2015) at the University of Notre Dame. His current research and dissertation focus on the late Roman Republic, encompassing Roman law, violence, institutional change, evolving norms, and the language of rebellion and revolution.
William Stover is a graduate student at the University of Virginia. His research interests include ethnic perception in the ancient world, historiography, and ancient legal rhetoric.
Melina Tamiolaki is Associate Professor in Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Crete (Department of Philology). She is the author of Liberté et esclavage chez les historiens grecs classiques (Paris, 2010). Besides numerous articles, she has also edited: Thucydides Between History and Literature (with Antonis Tsakmakis, 2013); Comic Wreath. New Trends in the Study of Ancient Greek Comedy (2014—in modern Greek); Methodological Perspectives in Classical Studies. Old Problems and New Challenges (2017); Gaze, Vision, and Visuality in Ancient Greek Literature (co‐edited, 2018), Polybius and his Legacy (with Nikos Miltsios, 2018), and Xenophon and Isocrates. Political Affinities and Literary Interactions (2018).
Louisa Désirée Thomas is working as a research assistant in Ancient History at the University of Kassel. She currently specializes in the study of ancient Iran, especially the Achaemenid Empire.
Rosalind Thomas is Professor of Greek History at Balliol College, Oxford. She is the author of Herodotus in Context: Science, Ethnography and the Art of Persuasion (Cambridge 2000); Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece (Cambridge 1992); and Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens (Cambridge 1989).
Romain Thurin specializes in the political and social history of the late Medieval Islamic world. His research focuses on the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, the early Anatolian Beyliks, and the Mongol Ilkhanate.
Daniel Tober is Assistant Professor of Classics and Ancient History in the Department of the Classics at Colgate University. His current research focuses on the interface between cultural memory and local history in classical and Hellenistic Greece, the subject of a forthcoming monograph, The Autobiographical Polis, and several articles (most recently, “Greek Local Historiography and its Audiences,” CQ 67.2 (2017)).
Lela Urquhart is an archaeologist and researcher at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. She specializes in Greek and Phoenician colonization, ancient religion, and the archaeology of the west Mediterranean.