Barry B. Powell, Halls-Bascom Professor at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, is best known for his books Homer and the Origin
of the Greek Alphabet (Cambridge, 1991) and Classical Myth
(Prentice-Hall, 1995; 2nd edition, 1997). He has also published
articles on Greek poetry, especially Homer, the history of writing,
and the origins of Greek myth, as well as doing research in
Egyptian philology.
Ian Morris is Professor of Classics at Stanford University. His
research focuses on social and cultural history, and archaeological
evidence. He has excavated extensively in Greece, and is the author
of Burial and Ancient Society (1987) and Death-Ritual and Social
Structure in Classical Antiquity (1992).
"...die Qualität der einzelnen Beiträge ist auf durchgehend hohem,
fallweise höchstem Forschungsniveau ... für Einsteiger wie
Fortgeschrittene gleicherweise hilfreich und instruktiv." – Stefan
Hiller, in: Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft, 2002
"This volume will certainly be useful, and in some areas
indispensable." – R.B. Rutherford, in: The Classical Review, 1999
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