Bruno Currie, DPhil (2000), Oxford University, is Associate Professor of Classics at that university. His research interests include early Greek epic and lyric poetry and Greek religion. He is the author of Pindar and the Cult of Heroes (OUP, 2005) and Homer?s Allusive Art (OUP, 2016).

Ian Rutherford, DPhil (1986), Oxford University, Professor of Classics at Reading University, works on Greek poetry and religion and its Mediterranean/W. Asiatic contexts. Recent books include State Pilgrims and Sacred Observers in Ancient Greece (2013) and Greco-Egyptian Interactions (2016).

List of Contributors: Andre Lardinois, Eveline van Hilten-Rutten, Gregory Nagy, Claude Calame, Krystyna Bartol, Theodora Hadjimichael, ElsaBouchard, David Fearn, Andrea Capra, Maria Kazanskaya, Ewen Bowie, Gregor Bitto, Stefano Caciagli, Renate Schlesier, Jessica Romney, Jacqueline Klooster, Francesca Modini, Tom Phillips, Enrico Prodi, Johannes Breuer, Arlette Neumann-Hartmann.