Roger D. Woodard is Andrew van Vranken Raymond Professor of Classics and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Buffalo (The State University of New York). His visiting appointments have included the American Academy at Rome, Oxford University, the Centro di Antropologia e Mondo Antico dell' Universita di Siena, the Max-Planck-Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, and the Max-Planck-Institut fur evolutionare Anthropologie, Leipzig. He is author or editor of many books, including Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European Antiquity, The Cambridge Companion to Greek