About the Author

Born 1953; 1979 PhD; since 2003 Associate Professor of Classics, University of Heidelberg; Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Classical Studies (School of Advanced Studies), London. Born 1987; former student of the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), Agrégation de Lettres Classiques; MA in Assyriology from the University of Heidelberg; currently PhD at the University of Reims.