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Andreas Bendlin is Assistant Professor of Roman History at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. His research interests cover ancient polytheistic religions, particularly the religious systems of ancient Greece and Rome, and the culture and literature of the Roman Mediterranean. He is preparing a book on polytheism in Republican Rome. Pierre Bonnechere is Professor of Greek History at the Centre d'Études Classiques in the University of Montréal. His interests center upon the history of Greek religion and “mentalités.” He has published widely on human sacrifice and sacrifice in general and the oracles of Boeotia. He is the author of a book on the sanctuary of Trophonius, Trophonios de Lébadée (2003). He has also compiled the index of ancient authors for Jacoby's Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (1999). He is currently investigating what the Greeks meant by a “sacred wood.” Jan N. Bremmer is Professor of Religious Studies at the Rijksuniversiteit Gröningen, The Netherlands. He has published widely on Greek religion and social life, early Christianity and the historiography of the history of religion, and his works have been translated into many languages, including (Dutch and English aside) German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, and Chinese. He is the author of The Early Greek Concept of the Soul (1983), Greek Religion (2nd edn, 1999), and The Rise and ... log in or subscribe to read full text