Authors

Donald G. Kyle (“Inside the Roman Arena”), chairman of the history department at the University of Texas at Arlington, has won numerous teaching awards. His recent publication, Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome (Routledge, 1998), was inspired by a fascination with the ancient world’s entertainment industry.

A lifetime of research on amphoras has taken Elizabeth Lyding Will (“The Roman Amphora”) to Scotland, central Europe, North Africa and India. Will is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the author of “Shipping Amphoras as Indicators of Economic Romanization in Athens,” in Michael C. Hoff and Susan I. Rotroff, eds., The Romanization of Athens (Oxbow Books, 1997).