Katja Moedeis a researcher at the Institute for Classical Archaeology, Freie
Universität Berlin.
Eric Orlinstudied at Yale University, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens,
and the University of California, Berkeley. He was an instructor in ancient history at
California State University, Fresno, 1995 – 6, then assistant professor of history and
classical studies at Bard College, and since 2000 he has been associate professor of
classics at the University of Puget Sound. He was a participant at the NEH Seminar
on “Roman Religion in its Cultural Context,” American Academy in Rome, 2002.
C. Robert Phillips, IIIstudied at Yale, Oxford, and Brown universities. He went
to Lehigh University in 1975, where he became professor of classics (1987) and pro-
fessor of classics and ancient history (1990); he chaired the Department of Classics
1982 – 8. In his free time he practices Chopin’s Etudes.
Athanasios Rizakisstudied at the universities of Thessalonika, Paris, and Lyon. He
was a lecturer in Greek language and civilization at the University Lyon III-Jean
Moulin 1974 – 8, then assistant and maître assistant associé at the University of
St-Etienne. He became a research fellow and, in 1984, director of research at the
National Hellenic Research Foundation, where he is head of the “Roman Greece”
program and of many other European or bilateral research projects. He was an invited
member at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton (1994), and visiting professor
at the universities of Creta (1980 –1), Lyon II (1987–8), and Cyprus (1996 –7). Since
1998 he has been professor of ancient Greek history at the University of Nancy II
(France).
Veit Rosenbergerstudied at the universities of Heidelberg, Augsburg, Cologne,
and Oxford. He was an assistant at the University of Augsburg 1992–2003 and
exchange professor at Emory University (Atlanta) 2000 –1, and has been professor
of ancient history at the University of Erfurt since 2004.
Jörg Rüpkestudied at the universities of Bonn, Lancaster, and Tübingen. He was
replacement teaching chair of Latin at the University of Constance 1994 – 5, then
professor of classical philology at the University of Potsdam. Since 1999 he has been
chair of comparative religion at the University of Erfurt, and he is the coordinator
of the Priority Program of the German Science Foundation (SPP 1080) “Roman
Imperial and Provincial Religion: Processes of Globalization and Regionalization in
the Ancient History of Religion” 2000 –7. He was visiting professor at the Université
Paris I-Sorbonne Panthéon in 2003, and T. B. H. L. Webster lecturer at Stanford
University in 2005.
Michele Renee Salzmanstudied at Bryn Mawr College. She was assistant pro-
fessor of classical studies at Columbia University 1980 –2, then assistant to associate
professor at Boston University. Since 1995, she has been associate to full professor
of history at the University of California at Riverside. She has been chair of the
Department of History and professor-in-charge of the Intercollegiate Center for
Classical Studies, Rome. She is senior editor of the Cambridge History of Ancient
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