Annalisa Marzano Editor & Author

Annalisa Marzano (Ph.D. 2004, Columbia University, New York) is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Reading, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries of London. She has published on a wide range of topics related to the social and economic history of the Roman world and has participated in numerous archaeological projects. She is the author of two monographs, Roman Villas in Central Italy. A Social and Economic History (2007), which won the Silver Medal and Honorable Mention at the VIII Premio Romanistico Internazionale Gerard Boulvert, and Harvesting the Sea: The Exploitation of Marine Resources in the Roman Mediterranean (2013). Guy P. R. Métraux (Ph.D. 1972, Harvard University, Massachusetts) is Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts at York University, Toronto, and a member of the Collaborative Program in Ancient History (University of Toronto/York University). He has participated in archaological excavations in Italy, Turkey, and Tunisia, co-authoring The San Rocco Villa at Francolise (London and New York 1985) with M. Aylwin Cotton. His 1995 book Sculptors and Physicians in Fifth century Greece won the Raymond Klibansky Prize from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council. A Guggenheim Fellow, his current work focuses on villas in their literary and physical aspects.