Authors

Shown in ancient Carthage’s open-air sanctuary, called the Tophet, David Soren (“‘Carthage Must Be Destroyed,‘ But Must It Be Forgotten?”) has excavated at several sites in Tunisia and around the Mediterranean. The Regents Professor of Classics and Classical Archaeology at the University of Arizona, he is the co-author (with Aïcha Ben Abed Ben Khader and Hedi Slim) of Carthage: Uncovering the Mysteries and Splendors of Ancient Tunisia (Simon and Schuster, 1990).

Florent Heintz (“Polyglot Antioch”) is a contributing curator of Greek and Roman art at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts and Keeper of Coins at Harvard University’s Sackler Museum. He has published several articles on the use of magic in the ancient world—including “Magic Tablets and the Games at Antioch,” Heintz’s entry in Antioch: The Lost Ancient City (Princeton University, 2000), the catalogue of the current Worcester Art Museum exhibit of the same name.