Authors

David Gilman Romano (“When the Games Began”) is an adjunct professor of classics at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior research scientist with the university’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. In conjunction with the museum’s Mediterranean section, Romano directs the Corinth Computer Project, which is digitally reconstructing the city plan and landscape of Roman Corinth.

Freelance writer Tony Perrottet (“Walking to Olympia”) is the author of The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient Games (Random House, 2004). His article on ancient Roman tourism, “Romantic Interlude,” appeared in the May/June 2003 issue of Archaeology Odyssey.

Stephen G. Miller (“The Other Games—When Greeks Flocked to Nemea”) is a professor of classics at the University of California at Berkeley, director of the Nemea excavations and a former director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He is also the author of Ancient Greek Athletics (Yale University Press, 2004).