Zachary P. Biles is Assistant Professor of Classics at Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania, USA. Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, Washington DC (2004 5), and Professor at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome (2003 4), he was awarded the Basil Gildersleeve Prize from the American Journal of Philology and Johns Hopkins University Press in 2003.