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Frances Pownall Editor

Timothy Howe (Professor of History and Ancient Studies at St. Olaf College, Minnesota) is a field archaeologist and literary scholar. His research focuses on Macedonian elites and the methods by which they maintained power. As editor or author he has published widely: Pastoral Politics: Agriculture and Society in Ancient Greece; Folly and Violence in the Courts of Alexander the Great and his Successors; Ancient Historiography on War and Empire; Macedonian Legacies; Greece, Macedon, and Persia, and Brill’s Companion to Insurgency and Terror in the Ancient Mediterranean. Professor Howe is Senior Editor for the journal Ancient History Bulletin. Frances Pownall (Professor, University of Alberta) is the author of Lessons From the Past: The Moral Use of History in Fourth-Century Prose (Michigan 2004), as well as a number of lengthy translations and historical commentaries on fragmentary Greek historians in Brill’s New Jacoby. She has published widely on Greek history and historiography of the classical and hellenistic periods.