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Peter Fibiger Bang is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen. His interests range from the comparative history of the Roman empire to ancient economic history and the reception of classical antiquity in European culture. Publications include The Roman Bazaar (2008). Hans Beck is John MacNaughton Professor of Classics at McGill University in Montreal. He has published widely on both the Roman republic and the history of Greek federalism. Books include Polis und Koinon (1997) and, on the republican nobility, Karriere und Hierarchie (2005). He is also co-editor of Brill's New Jacoby. Gideon Bohak is an Associate Professor at Tel Aviv University, working on Jewish literature and culture in the Greco-Roman world, on ethnic stereotypes in ancient literature, and on Jewish magic. His most recent book is Ancient Jewish Magic: A History (2008). Alan K. Bowman is Camden Professor of Ancient History and Fellow of Brasenose College Oxford. His main research interests are the social and economic history of the Roman empire, Papyrology, and Greco-Roman Egypt. Publications include Egypt after the Pharoahs (1990 2 ), Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier (2003 2 ). Maria Brosius is Reader in Ancient History at the University of Newcastle. She is the author of The Persians: an introduction (2006) and editor of Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions (2003). ... log in or subscribe to read full text