HOLTN. PARKERis Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati and
Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He has published on Sappho,
Sulpicia, sexuality, slavery, sadism, and spectacle.
ROSALINDTHOMASworks on literacy and orality in ancient Greece. She has
writtenOral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens(1989), and
Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece(1992). Her research interests also
include Greek law and the polis, Greek medicine, and historiography.
Her most recent book isHerodotus in Context. Ethnography, Science
and the Art of Persuasion(2000). She is Tutorial Fellow and University
Lecturer in Ancient History at Balliol College, Oxford.
SHIRLEYWERNERtaught at Rutgers University and the University of
California, Irvine, and served as the American Fellow to the Thesaurus
linguae Latinae in Munich. She has published on Latin poetry and
manuscripts. She works as the Associate Director of the American Office
ofL’Anne ́e philologiqueand has recently joined the editorial board of
the journalVergiliusas Bibliographical Editor.
PETERWHITEis Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. He has
written extensively on the relationship between Latin literature and the
structure of Roman society during the Late Republic and Early Empire.
His books includePromised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome
(1993), for which he received the American Philological Association’s
Goodwin Award for Merit in 1995. He is currently completing a book
about Cicero’s letters.
GREGWOOLFis Professor of Ancient History at the University of
St Andrews. He has written on European prehistory, the cultural history
of the Roman provinces, the Roman economy, and Roman religion. Along
with Alan Bowman he editedLiteracy and Power in the Ancient World
(1994) and contributed a chapter on the subject to theCambridge Ancient
History. He is currently working on patterns of cultural change in Roman
antiquity, and on science in the Roman world.
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