Notes on Editors and Contributors
Editor and contributing author Kassandra Jackson Miller is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Bard College, New York. Her research is in the areas of ancient religion, magic, and medicine, with a focus on timekeeping.
Editor and contributing author Sarah L. Symons is an Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Science, McMaster University, Canada. Her research in history of astronomy concentrates on interpreting astronomical texts and instruments from ancient Egypt and investigating how the night sky was perceived, explained, and depicted.
Alexandra von Lieven
is an Extracurricular Professor at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Her research interests focus on ancient Egyptian religion, science, and cultural history, particularly on Religious Astronomy.
Anette Schomberg
is part of a research group in the Topoi Excellence Cluster at the Humboldt- Universität, Berlin, investigating the unequal armed balance in antiquity. She is also developing a database of ancient water clocks.
John Steele
is Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity and Chair of the Department of Egyptology and Assyriology at Brown University, Rhode Island. His research focuses on the history of Babylonian astronomy and astrology and its reception in other cultures.
Alexander Jones
is the Director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (New York University). He studies the history and transmission of the mathematical sciences, especially astronomy, in antiquity, with particular focus on the Greco-Roman world.
Barbara M. Sattler
is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, UK. The main area of her research is metaphysics and natural philosophy in the ancient Greek world, especially with the Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle.
James Ker
is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His work has focused on Roman literature, especially Seneca the Younger, conceptions of time in ancient Rome, and receptions of Roman culture.
Anja Wolkenhauer
is chair of Latin philology at Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany. Her research focuses on scientific issues concerning the history of mentalities, literature, and epistemology, with a focus on time perception in Rome.
Stephan Heilen
is Professor of Classics at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. His main fields of research are the history of astrology in antiquity and in the Renaissance, as well as Neo-Latin poetry.