Acknowledgments
This book is one of the fruits of my post-doctoral placement in the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw. It was generously financed by the National Centre of Science as a part of the Fuga program (grant number 2016/20/S/HS3/00062). A large part of this three-year period, from late 2016 until the end of 2019, I spent as a guest of various research institutions. I received particularly good assistance from the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, with its fabulous Blegen Library, the British School at Athens, the University of Oxford with its Bodleian and Sackler libraries, the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, the LAMA center at the University of Pisa, and the ANHiMA center in Paris. During this period I received some additional financial support from the Faculty of History, the de Brzezie Lanckoroński Foundation in Warsaw, and the French Government in the form of a scholarship.
I would like to thank my academic mentor, Marek Węcowski. I also received much welcome help from Ioanna Patera and Paul Jarvis, the first readers of my manuscript. I also owe a great debt of gratitude to my communication with many other scholars, sometimes in the form of laconic emails. Thus, among others, I would like to thank Iwona Krawczyk, Alexandre Johnston, Georgia Sermamoglou-Soulmaidi, Glenn Most, Jan Bremmer, Oliver Taplin, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Scott Smith, Charles Delattre, and Dorota Gorzelany. Particularly memorable, and perhaps the most important of all, was a conversation I had with Renate Schlesier in front of the Attic hydria with Lycurgus in the National Museum in Kraków.
Needless to say, this book would have not been the same if not for the helpful advice given by Brill’s reviewers.