Barbara Graziosi is the author of "Inventing Homer" and "Homer in the Twentieth Century", among other works. In 2011, she provided the introduction and notes for a new translation of the "Iliad" for Oxford World s Classics. A professor of classics at Durham University, Graziosi is also a contributor to "The Times Higher Education Supplement", the "London Review of Books", and BBC radio programs on the arts. "The Gods of Olympus" is her first trade book. She lives in the U.K.