John Scheid’s PhD thesis was supervised by Robert Schilling and Hans Georg Pflaum.
He was a member of the Ecole française de Rome 1974 –7, then assistant professor
of ancient history at the Université de Lille III, and afterwards professor and
directeur d’études at the Ecole pratique des hautes études, sciences religieuses. Since
2001 he has been a member of the Collège de France.
Christopher Smithstudied at Oxford University, and was appointed to St Andrews
University in 1992. He is currently professor of ancient history. In 2001 he gave
the Stanford Lectures at Trinity College Dublin.
William Van Andringastudied at the universities of Toulouse and Oxford. He has
been maître de conférences in Roman history and archaeology at the University of
Picardie Jules-Verne since 2001. He is co-director of the excavation of the necrop-
olis of Porta Nocera at Pompeii 2003 –7, and coordinator of the research program
“Sacrifices and Meat Markets in the Roman Empire” (Centre Gustave Glotz, Paris)
2006 – 9. He was a member of the French School at Rome 2002–3.
Jonathan Williamsstudied classics at the University of Oxford. He was a lecturer
in ancient history at St Anne’s College, Oxford, 1992–3, then curator of Iron Age
and Roman coins at the British Museum. Since 2005 he has been policy adviser on
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