Dean Hammer is John W. Wetzel Professor of Classics and Professor of Government at Franklin and Marshall College. He is author of The Puritan Tradition; The Iliad as Politics: The Performance of Political Thought; and Roman Political Thought and the Modern Theoretical Imagination, and editor of A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic. From 1999 to 2000, he was a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies and is currently on the editorial board of Polity. His articles on ancient and modern political thought have been published in a variety of edited volumes and journals, including