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The Realities of Cult from Antiquity
to the Middle Ages (2000), and Zeus
(2005). He is co-editor of Blackwell’s
forthcoming Blackwell Companion to
Classical Mythology.


Franc ̧oise Dunandis Professor Emeritus
of History of Religions at Marc Bloch
University, Strasbourg. She was a mem-
ber of the French Institute of Oriental
Archaeology in Cairo and is currently
directing the archaeological exploration
of the necropoleis at El Deir (Kharga
Oasis). Among her more recent publica-
tions areIsis, me`re des dieux(2000),Les
E ́gyptiens(with R. Lichtenberg, 2004),
Des animaux et des hommes, une symbiose
e ́gyptienne(with R. Lichtenberg, 2005).
Her bookDieux et hommes en Egypte,
3000 av. J.-C.–395 apr. J.-C.: Anthropo-
logie religieuse (with C. Zivie-Coche,
1991) has been translated under the
titleGods and Men in Egypt, 3000 BCE
to 395 CE (2004), and her book Les
Momies et la mort en E ́gypte (with
R. Lichtenberg, 1998) will shortly be
published in English by Cornell Univer-
sity Press.


Gunnel Ekrothis Research Fellow in
the Department of Archaeology and
Classical Studies, Stockholm University.
She is the author ofSacrificial Rituals of
Greek Hero-Cults(2002), as well as of
papers on various aspects of hero-cults.
She has also worked on the shapes and
uses of altars, the treatment of blood in
animal sacrifice, and miniature pottery.
She has participated in a number of
excavations in Greece and is currently
preparing Geometric-Archaic material
from digs at Mycenae and Berbati for
publication.


D. Feltonis Associate Professor of Clas-
sics at the University of Massachusetts
Amherst, where she specializes in mytho-
logy and folklore. She is the author of


Haunted Greece and Rome: Ghost Stories
from Classical Antiquity (1999). Her
second book,Things That Went Bump
in the Night: Strange Stories from Ancient
Greece and Rome, is forthcoming from
the University of Texas Press.
William D. Furley studied Classics at
UCL London, Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, and Tu ̈bingen in Germany. He
has worked in the Classics Department
of Heidelberg University since 1980,
from 2002 as Ausserplanma ̈ssiger Profes-
sor. Most of his publications are in the
field of Greek religion and literature. He
is the author ofStudies in the Use of Fire
in Ancient Greek Religion(1981),Ando-
kides and the Herms: A Study of Crisis in
Fifth-Century Athenian Religion(1996),
and Greek Hymns: Selected Cult Songs
from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period
(2 vols, 2001). At present he is engaged
on work on Menander, but hopes to
return to the subject of hymns, with Jan
Maarten Bremer, for a future volume on
later Greek hymns.
Thomas Harrisonis Rathbone Profes-
sor of Ancient History and Classical
Archaeology at the University of Liver-
pool. He is the author ofDivinity and
History: The Religion of Herodotus
(2000) andThe Emptiness of Asia: Aes-
chylus’ ‘‘Persians’’ and the History of the
Fifth Century (2000), the editor of
Greeks and Barbarians(2002), and the
co-editor ofThe Edinburgh Companion
to Ancient Greece and Rome(2006). A
study of Greek religious belief, Greek
Religion: Belief and Experience, is forth-
coming with Duckworth in 2007.
Charles W. Hedrick Jr.is Professor of
History at University of California Santa
Cruz. He is the author ofDecrees of the
Demotionidai (1990) and History and
Silence: Purge and Rehabilitation of
Memory in Late Antiquity(2000), and

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