Acknowledgments
The editors gratefully acknowledge the Danish Council for Independent Research and Georgetown University for funding of the 2017 conference at Georgetown’s Villa Le Balze in Fiesole, Italy, from which this volume arose.
Anybody who has spent time at the Villa knows what care its staff puts into making visitors welcome and helping them get the most out of their stay in Fiesole. We warmly thank Fulvio Orsitto, Director of Villa Le Balze, Simona Mocali, Assistant Director of Villa Le Balze, and their colleagues for their warm embrace and superb organization. At Georgetown we also thank Chester Gillis, former Dean of the College, for his support and Christopher Brush, the Administrator of Classics, for help with logistics.
Carsten Hjort Lange and Jesper Majbom Madsen not only contributed papers to this volume; they also have helped us see it into publication. We are grateful to them and all of our contributors for the hard work they put into their papers and their promptness in meeting publication deadlines.
Finally, special thanks go to Brill’s anonymous reviewer for helpful suggestions on the volume.