Nicolas Richer Editor

Anton Powell has published extensively on the history of Sparta, Athens – and the literature of the Roman Revolution. He is the author of an introduction to source-criticism in Greek history, Athens and Sparta (3rd edition 2014), and the editor of Wiley Blackwell's Companion to Sparta (2 volumes, 2018). His work Virgil the Partisan (2008) was awarded the prize of the American Vergilian Society for ‘the book that makes the greatest contribution toward our understanding and appreciation of Vergil’. He has twice been Invited Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, in 2006 for Greek history and in 2008 for Latin literature. Nicolas Richer is one of France's leading authorities on Sparta. His major works include Les Ephores (1998), La Religion des Spartiates (2012), Sparte: cité des arts, des armes et des lois (2018), and Atlas de la Grece classique (2017). He has also published widely in English. Nicolas Richer is Professor at L'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon.