Franco De Angelis is Professor and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia. He specializes in the development of ancient Greek culture outside Greece, both in terms of similarities and differences with its place of origin. His most recently published work on the subject is Archaic and Classical Greek Sicily: A Social and Economic History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016). He is currently preparing new books on the relationship between Classical antiquity and New World migrations and diasporas and on rethinking cultural transfers in the pre-Roman western Mediterranean.