Acknowledgements
The Editors would like to thank all the contributors, without whose patience and cooperation there would be no volume. The contributions are all original except for two, Kierstead’s and Ober’s, which are revised/updated versions of already published essays; we thank the original publishers for their permission to reprint them. We also wish to express our gratitude to Kyriakos Demetriou, the Series Editor, for his initial input, his constant encouragement and his valuable help. A special thank goes to Luca Iori, who prepared the general index with generous availability and timely collaboration. Last but not least, we are thankful to the anonymous reviewer for the prompt revision and the excellent suggestions.
This book is dedicated to Paul Cartledge, for all he has done to revive the history and the ideals of democracy.