Edward M Anson Editor & Author

Monica D’Agostini (2018 PhD Università Cattolica di Milano, 2013 PhD Università di Bologna) is the author of a number of learned contributions on political and military authority in Macedonia and Hellenistic Antiquity with forays into the history of modern political thought and its relation to the Classical heritage. Her publications include her recent volume The Rise of Philip V. Kingship and rule in the Hellenistic World, Alessandria (2019) and her book Gaetano Filangieri and Benjamin Franklin: between the Italian enlightenment and the US constitution, Ambasciata d'Italia a Washington DC (2011). She is currently affiliated with the department of Archaeology, Ancient History and History of Art at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. Edward M. Anson is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. He has authored or edited eight books, including Eumenes of Cardia: A Greek Among Macedonians Revised 2nd edition (E. J. Brill, 2015), Alexander’s Heirs: The Age of the Successors 323-281 BC (Wiley/Blackwell, 2014); Alexander the Great: Themes and issues (Bloomsbury, 2013; After Alexander: The Age of the Diadochi (323-281 BC) with Victor Alonso Troncoso (Oxbow Books, 2013); published over thirty articles in referred journals, twenty-six book chapters, and over fifty encyclopedia articles. He is an associate editor of the Ancient History Bulletin, an Assessor for Classics for the Australian Research Council, and a fellow of the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Hellenistic Studies. Frances Pownall is Professor of Classics at the University of Alberta. She has published widely on Greek historiography (particularly the fourth century and the Hellenistic period), the source tradition on Macedonia and the Successors, and the historiographical tradition of Sicily and the Greek West. She is the author of Lessons From the Past: The Moral Use of History in Fourth-Century Prose (Michigan 2004) and a number of historical commentaries in Brill’s New Jacoby, as well as co-editor (with T. Howe) of Ancient Macedonians in the Greek and Roman Sources (Swansea 2018), and co-editor (with W. Heckel, J. Heinrichs, and S. Müller) of Lexicon of Argead Macedonia (forthcoming 2020).