xii list of contributors
Brian Swain
is an Assistant Professor of History at Kennesaw State University. He studies
the barbarians and late Roman historiography, and is the author of “Jordanes
and Virgil: A Case Study of Intertextuality in the Getica”, Classical Quarterly
61.1 (2010). He is currently writing a monograph entitled Empire of Hope and
Tragedy: Jordanes and the Invention of Roman-Gothic History.
Rita Lizzi Testa
is Professor of Roman History at the Università di Perugia. Her research includes
the conversion and Christianization of the Roman Empire, the function of
political rhetoric in late antique literature, and the transformation of political
institutions from Constantine to Theodosius I. Her many publications include
Le Trasformazioni delle élites in età tardoantica (L’Erma di Bretschneider 2006).