Authors

The British writer Barry Unsworth (“Imagining the Minoans”) is the author of several novels, including The Song of the Kings (2003), Morality Play (1995), Sacred Hunger (which won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize in 1992) and After Hannibal (1977). He currently lives in Umbria.

James D. Muhly (“Excavating Minoan Sites”), formerly a professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and a recently retired director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, is the author of scores of scholarly articles and full-length works on the Bronze Age in the Aegean and the Near East.