Haverkost is an archaeologist and graduate student in the History Department at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She is currently researching cultural and political reflections in classical Macedonian funerary imagery. In addition, she is a supervisor with Bethsaida Archaeological Excavations in northern Israel. Her research interests include religion and cultural exchange between the Mediterranean and Ancient Near East during the Iron Age through the Classical periods.
Waldemar Heckel is Professor Emeritus of Greek and Roman Studies and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies. He taught at the University of Calgary from 1977 until his retirement at the end of 2013. He is author of numerous books, including (most recently) Alexander’s Marshals. A Study of the Makedonian Aristocracy and the Politics of Military Leadership (London, 2016), In the Path of Conquest. Resistance to Alexander the Great (Oxford 2000), and Who’s Who in the Age of Alexander and his Successors. From Chaironeia to Ipsos, 338–301 BCE (London 2021).
Johannes Heinrichs is Professor in Ancient History at the University of Cologne (Germany), currently a researcher in the project Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae Palaestinae, and one of the editors of the Lexicon of Argead Makedonia. His focus is on Achaemenid, Greek, and Latin epigraphy, Persian, Greek, and Roman history and numismatics, Roman imperial prosopography (PIR, vols. VIII.1 and 2), and Celtic and Germanic ethnic groups in Western Europe. His recent papers include discussions of a new bronze tablet from the Lykaion in archaic Arkadia, and legal aspects of the Hefzibah inscription that contains letters by the Seleukid king, Antiochos III.
Peter Hunt, Professor of Classics and (courtesy) History at the University of Colorado Boulder, studies warfare and society, slavery, historiography, and oratory with a focus on Classical Greece. His first book, Slaves, Warfare and Ideology in the Greek Historians (1998), discerns a conflict between the extent of slave and Helot participation in Greek warfare and the representation of their role in contemporary historians. His second book, War, Peace, and Alliance in Demosthenes' Athens (2010), uses the evidence of deliberative oratory as evidence for Athenian thinking and feelings about foreign relations. His third book is a survey on Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery (2018). In addition to articles and reviews, he has contributed chapters to The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes, Brill's Companion to Thucydides, The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides, The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare, The Cambridge World History of Slavery, and The Cambridge History of the World. He is now starting a major project on Plutarch’s Phocion.
Melanie Jonasch is with the German Archaeological Institute. Her dissertation dealt with Les pierres du bon buveur. Eine regionale Konvention unter den Grabstelen des römerzeitlichen Gallien (2011). She is author of The Fight for Greek Sicily: Society, Politics and Landscape (2020).
Sabine Müller is Professor of Ancient History at Marburg University. She studied Medieval and Modern History, Art History, and Ancient History. Her research focuses on the Persian Empire, Argead Macedonia, the Hellenistic Empires, Macedonian royal women, Lukian of Samosata, and reception studies. Her publications include monographs on Alexander the Great, Ptolemy II and Arsinoë II, and Perdikkas II. She is co-editor of the Lexicon of Argead Makedonia (2020).
Silke Müth is a Classical archaeologist specializing in topography and architecture, particularly in Greek cities and fortifications. She coordinated a research project on the city wall of Messene (Peloponnese) from 2004 to 2008, co-directed the international network “Focus on Fortification. Ancient Fortifications in the Eastern Mediterranean” from 2008 to 2016, and held a fellowship of the German Research Association (DFG) on Symbolic Functions of Greek and Roman Fortifications at the Athens branch of the German Archaeological Institute and the Humboldt University of Berlin from 2012 to 2016. Currently she is a Senior Researcher at the National Museum of Denmark, co-directing a research project on the Archaic-Classical city of Sikyon (Peloponnese).
F.S. Naiden, professor of Greek History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studies ancient Greek law, religion, and warfare, including Near Eastern parallels, especially among the Western Semites. Chief periods of interest are the Classical and Hellenistic. Recently completed is a study of Alexander the Great, his officers, and the role of religion in Macedonian conquests, Soldier, Priest, and God, combining his interests in warfare, religion, and the Near East. Now underway is a study of war councils and command and control throughout antiquity and into the early modern period. The languages used for his research are Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Akkadian
Emil Nankov is Assistant Professor at the National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology at Cornell University (2009). His main scholarly interests focus on urbanization, warfare, and ancient economy of ancient Thrace. He is the editor of Sandanski and Its Territory During Prehistory, Antiquity and Middle Ages: Current Trends in Archaeological Research: Proceedings of an International Conference at Sandanski, September 17–20, 2015. Papers of the American Research Center in Sofia, vol. 3 (Veliko Tarnovo). He is also a co-editor of Heraclea Sintica: from Hellenistic polis to Roman civitas (4th c. BC–6th c. AD). Proceedings of a Conference at Petrich, Bulgaria, September 19–21, 2013, published in PARCS vol. 2 (2015), and A Companion to Ancient Thrace (2015). Currently he is a Deputy Director of the archaeological excavations at Emporion Pistiros.
Stephen O’Connor is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Fullerton. His research focuses on the economics and logistics of Classical Greek warfare. He has published articles on the diet and pay of Greek sailors and soldiers and, especially, the markets they participated in while on campaign. He is currently preparing a monograph entitled Feeding Maritime Empire: Grain Markets and Athenian Imperial Domination in the 5th Century BCE.
Marek Jan Olbrycht is Professor of History and Ancient Oriental Studies at Rzeszów University, Poland, Member of the Oriental Commission of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, and Member of the Polish Archaeological Institute in Athens, Greece. Formerly: Member at the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and Humboldt Visiting Professor in Germany, University of Münster. His focus has been the history of ancient Iran and Central Asia, Alexander the Great, and ancient warfare. He published more than 100 articles and several books, including Parthia et Ulteriores gentes (1998) and Alexander the Great and the Iranian World (2004). In 2010, he established the journal Anabasis. Studia Classica et Orientalia.
Olga Palagia is Professor of Classical Archaeology, Emerita, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has published widely on Greek sculpture and Macedonian painting and has edited several collective volumes. Recent edited books include Sailing to Classical Greece in Honour of Petros Themelis (2011) (co-edited with H.R. Goette), Naupaktos (2016), From Hippias to Kallias: Greek Art in Athens and Beyond 527–449 BC (2019) (co-edited with E.P. Sioumpara), and De Gruyter Handbook of Greek Sculpture (2019).
Frances Pownall is Professor of Classics at the University of Alberta. She has published widely on Greek historiography (particularly the fourth century and the Hellenistic period), the source tradition on Macedonia and the Successors, and the historiographical tradition of Sicily and the Greek West. She has written updated editions, translations, and historical commentaries for a number of important fragmentary historians (including Hecataeus, Hellanicus, Duris, Aristobulus, Eratosthenes, and Philistus) for Brill’s New Jacoby. She is the author of Lessons From the Past: The Moral Use of History in Fourth-Century Prose (2004), Ancient Macedonians in the Greek and Roman Sources (co-edited with T. Howe, 2018), Lexicon of Argead Macedonia (co-edited with W. Heckel, J. Heinrichs, and S. Müller, 2020), and Affective Relations & Personal Bonds in Hellenistic Antiquity (co-edited with E.M. Anson and M. D’Agostini, 2020).
Jeanne Reames is Director of the Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, where she also served as the History Graduate Program Chair until recently. She specializes in Argead Macedonia up through the court of Alexander