Cloisters and a docent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York.
Mariam F. Ayad, Ph.D., teaches graduate-level classes on
Egyptian language and literature at the University of Mem-
phis, where she is the assistant director of its Institute of
Egyptian Art and Archaeology. Her main research interests
focus on the role of women in ancient Egyptian temple ritual
and the selection and transmission of funerary texts in post–
New Kingdom Egypt. Her book on the God’s Wife of Amun
is under contract with Routledge.
Heather D. Baker, D.Phil., is a researcher at the University of
Vienna, Austria, specializing in Babylonian history, society,
and culture. She has published widely on Babylonian and As-
syrian history and is writing a book to be titled Th e Urban
Landscape of First Millennium BC Babylonia.
Robin Barrow, Ph.D., FRSC, is professor of philosophy of
education at Simon Fraser University, Canada. His most
recent books include Plato (2007) and An Introduction to
Moral Philosophy and Moral Education (2007). He is the au-
thor of Athenian Democracy (2001) and Greek and Roman
Education (19 9 6).
László Bartosiewicz, Ph.D., D.sc., teaches archaeozoology at
the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest (Hungary) and the
University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom). He is the author
of Animals in the Urban Landscape in the Wake of the Middle
Ages (1995) and principal author of Draught Cattle: Th eir Os-
teological Identifi cation and History (1997) and has published
more than 200 scholarly articles.
Kirk H. Beetz, Ph.D., emeritus, has published over two dozen
books and more than 900 articles. His books span topics from
endangered mammal species to children’s literature, includ-
ing Exploring C. S. Lewis’ “Th e Chronicles of Narnia” (2000).
His recent writings have focused on the history and culture
of ancient Japan.
Craig G. R. Benjamin, Ph.D., teaches world and ancient
Eurasian history at Grand Valley State University. He is the
coeditor of vols. 2 (1998), 4 (2000), and 6 (2002) in the Brepols
Silk Roads Studies series and the author of Th e Yuezhi: Ori-
gin, Migration and the Conquest of Northern Bactria (2007).
Uff e Bergeton, Ph.D., is in the Ph.D. program in the Depart-
ment of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of
Michigan. He is the author of Th e Independence of Binding
and Intensifi cation (Ph.D. dissertation, University of South-
ern California) and various articles on theoretical phonology
and syntax.
Amy Hackney Blackwell has degrees in history from Duke
University and Vanderbilt University and a J.D. from the Uni-
versity of Virginia. Her books include Mythology for Dum-
mies (2002), LSAT for Dummies (2004), Th e Everything Irish
History and Heritage Book (2004), and Essential Dictionary of
Law (2004). She has contributed to the Encyclopedia of World
Nations and Cultures (2006), Alternative Energy (2006), and
Chemical Compounds (2006).Christopher Blackwell, Ph.D., teaches classics at Furman
University. He is the author of In the Absence of Alexander:
Harpalus and the Failure of Macedonian Hegemony (1999)
and various protocols and soft ware applications for building
digital libraries, and he serves as technical editor for the Cen-
ter for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University.Amy Bogaard, Ph.D., teaches prehistory and archaeobotany
at the Department of Archaeology, University of Notting-
ham, United Kingdom. She is the author of Neolithic Farming
in Central Europe (2004).Peter Bogucki, Ph.D., is an archaeologist who is associate
dean for undergraduate aff airs of the School of Engineering
and Applied Science at Princeton University. He has studied
prehistoric settlements in Poland and has a particular interest
in the spread of farming in Europe. He is the author of Th e
Origins of Human Society (1999) and the editor (with Pam J.
Crabtree) of Ancient Europe 8000 b.c.–a.d. 1000: An Encyclo-
pedia of the Barbarian World (2004).Larissa Bonfante, Ph.D., professor of classics at New York
University, is the author of several books on Etruscan and
early Roman culture as well as publications on ancient dress
and nudity, including The World of Roman Costume, co-
edited with Judith Sebesta (1994).Charlotte Booth is a Ph.D. student at the University of Wales,
Swansea, and teaches Egyptology for Birkbeck College and
other institutions in the United Kingdom. She is the author
of People of Ancient Egypt (2007), Th e Hyksos Period in Egypt
(2005), and Th e Role of Foreigners in Ancient Egypt (2005).Lisa R. Brody, Ph.D., teaches Greek and Roman art history at
Queens College, City University of New York. Her research
interests include Greek iconography and cult, ancient lamps
and their decoration, children in antiquity, and representa-
tion of ethnicity in Greco-Roman art. She compiled the re-
vised edition of David Sacks’s Encyclopedia of the Ancient
Greek World (2005) and is author of Aphrodisias III: Th e Aph-
rodite of Aphrodisias (2007).David Brown, Ph.D., is researching the interactions of the
pre-Islamic astral sciences of Mesopotamia, Greece, India,
Egypt, Iran, the western Semitic world, and China at the Free
University of Berlin. He is the author of Mesopotamian Plan-
etary Astronomy-Astrology (2000) and Th e Interactions of An-
cient Astral Science (forthcoming).vi Advisers and Contributors