ANTON POWELL has published extensively on the history of Sparta, Athens – and the literature of the Roman Revolution. He is the author of an introduction to source-criticism in Greek history, Athens and Sparta (3rd edition 2016). He founded the International Sparta Seminar, and with Stephen Hodkinson has edited many of its volumes. He is also the editor of Wiley-Blackwell’s Companion to Sparta (2 vols, 2017, forthcoming). His monograph Virgil the Partisan (2008) was awarded the prize of the American Vergilian Society for `the book that makes the greatest contribution toward our understanding and appreciation of Vergil’. He has twice been Invited Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, in 2006 for Greek history and in 2008 for Latin literature. KATERINA MEIDANI has lectured and published widely, in Greek, English and French, as historian of Archaic and early Classical Greece. She is author of Archaic Greece and War, (2010). She is co-editor, with Kostas Buraselis, of Marathon: The battle and the ancient deme (2010). With Anton Powell, she convened and organised the conference in Greece with which the present volume began.