vi Advisers and Contributors Cloisters and a docent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Mariam F Ayad, Ph.D., teaches graduate-level classes on Egyptian language and literature at the University of Memphis, where she is the assistant director of its Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology Her main research interests focus on the role of women in ancient Egyptian temple ritual and the selection and transmission of funerary texts in post– New Kingdom Egypt Her book on the God’s Wife of Amun is under contract with Routledge Heather D Baker, D.Phil., is a researcher at the University of Vienna, Austria, specializing in Babylonian history, society, and culture She has published widely on Babylonian and Assyrian history and is writing a book to be titled The Urban Landscape of First Millennium BC Babylonia Robin Barrow, Ph.D., FRSC, is professor of philosophy of education at Simon Fraser University, Canada His most recent books include Plato (2007) and An Introduction to Moral Philosophy and Moral Education (2007) He is the author of Athenian Democracy (2001) and Greek and Roman Education (1996) László Bartosiewicz, Ph.D., D.sc., teaches archaeozoology at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest (Hungary) and the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) He is the author of Animals in the Urban Landscape in the Wake of the Middle Ages (1995) and principal author of Draught Cattle: Their Osteological Identification and History (1997) and has published more than 200 scholarly articles Kirk H Beetz, Ph.D., emeritus, has published over two dozen books and more than 900 articles His books span topics from endangered mammal species to children’s literature, including Exploring C S Lewis’ “The Chronicles of Narnia” (2000) His recent writings have focused on the history and culture of ancient Japan Craig G R Benjamin, Ph.D., teaches world and ancient Eurasian history at Grand Valley State University He is the coeditor of vols (1998), (2000), and (2002) in the Brepols Silk Roads Studies series and the author of The Yuezhi: Origin, Migration and the Conquest of Northern Bactria (2007) Uffe Bergeton, Ph.D., is in the Ph.D program in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan He is the author of The Independence of Binding and Intensification (Ph.D dissertation, University of Southern California) and various articles on theoretical phonology and syntax Amy Hackney Blackwell has degrees in history from Duke University and Vanderbilt University and a J.D from the Uni- versity of Virginia Her books include Mythology for Dummies (2002), LSAT for Dummies (2004), The Everything Irish History and Heritage Book (2004), and Essential Dictionary of Law (2004) She has contributed to the Encyclopedia of World Nations and Cultures (2006), Alternative Energy (2006), and Chemical Compounds (2006) Christopher Blackwell, Ph.D., teaches classics at Furman University He is the author of In the Absence of Alexander: Harpalus and the Failure of Macedonian Hegemony (1999) and various protocols and soft ware applications for building digital libraries, and he serves as technical editor for the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University Amy Bogaard, Ph.D., teaches prehistory and archaeobotany at the Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom She is the author of Neolithic Farming in Central Europe (2004) Peter Bogucki, Ph.D., is an archaeologist who is associate dean for undergraduate affairs of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University He has studied prehistoric settlements in Poland and has a particular interest in the spread of farming in Europe He is the author of The Origins of Human Society (1999) and the editor (with Pam J Crabtree) of Ancient Europe 8000 b.c.–a.d 1000: An Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World (2004) Larissa Bonfante, Ph.D., professor of classics at New York University, is the author of several books on Etruscan and early Roman culture as well as publications on ancient dress and nudity, including The World of Roman Costume, coedited with Judith Sebesta (1994) Charlotte Booth is a Ph.D student at the University of Wales, Swansea, and teaches Egyptology for Birkbeck College and other institutions in the United Kingdom She is the author of People of Ancient Egypt (2007), The Hyksos Period in Egypt (2005), and The Role of Foreigners in Ancient Egypt (2005) Lisa R Brody, Ph.D., teaches Greek and Roman art history at Queens College, City University of New York Her research interests include Greek iconography and cult, ancient lamps and their decoration, children in antiquity, and representation of ethnicity in Greco-Roman art She compiled the revised edition of David Sacks’s Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World (2005) and is author of Aphrodisias III: The Aphrodite of Aphrodisias (2007) David Brown, Ph.D., is researching the interactions of the pre-Islamic astral sciences of Mesopotamia, Greece, India, Egypt, Iran, the western Semitic world, and China at the Free University of Berlin He is the author of Mesopotamian Planetary Astronomy-Astrology (2000) and The Interactions of Ancient Astral Science (forthcoming)