Contributors
Trained at New York University and at Harvard,BARBARABURRELLhas dug
at sites across the Mediterranean, including Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey,
and currently in Israel, where she is Field Director for the Promontory
Palace Excavations at Caesarea Maritima. Her specialties include Roman
provincial coins, Greek epigraphy of Asia Minor, and Hellenistic and
Roman imperial architecture, art, and history. Her major work on cities
that built temples to the imperial cult,Neokoroi: Greek Cities and Roman
Emperors, appeared in 2004. She is currently Associate Professor of
Roman Archaeology at Brock University, as well as Associate Research
Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati.
FLORENCEDUPONTis Professor of Classics at the University Paris Denis-
Diderot. With interests in Roman theater (tragedy and comedy) and
the anthropology of Roman culture, her research now focuses on
ethnopoetics. In 2007 she founded theGroupe de recherches en
ethnopoe ́tique(GREP). She is the author of many books and articles.
Her most recent books includeL’orateur sans visage, essai sur l’acteur
romain et son masque(2000),Fac ̧ons de parler grec a`Rome(2003),
coauthored with Emmanuelle Valette-Cagnac, andAristote ou le
vampire du the ́aˆtre occidental(2007).
JOSEPHFARRELLis Professor of Classical Studies at the University of
Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses on Latin literature and Roman
culture. He is the author ofVergil’sGeorgicsand the Traditions of Ancient
Epic(1991), ofLatin Language and Latin Culture from Ancient to Modern
Times(2001), and of papers on various aspects of Latin literature.
SIMONGOLDHILLis Professor of Greek at Cambridge University. He has
published extensively on Greek literature from Homer to the late an-
tique, but specializes on Greek tragedy. His current research projects
include a five-year program,Abandoning the Past in Victorian Britain,
and a three-year project,Art and Law in Modern Society. His most recent
books areHow to Stage Greek Tragedy Today(2007) andJerusalem, City
of Longing(2008).
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