Jacob Klein (“The Birth of Kingship: From Democracy to Monarchy in Sumer”) is a professor of Hebrew and Semitic languages at Bar Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel. He is the author of The Royal Hymns of Shulgi, King of Ur: Man’s Quest for Immortal Fame (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1981).
Assyriologist Mogens Trolle Larsen (“Europe Confronts Assyrian Art”) is an associate professor with the Carsten Niebuhr Institute for Near Eastern Studies at the University of Copenhagen, in Denmark. He further explores the great 19th-century collision between ancient Mesopotamia and modern Europe in The Conquest of Assyria: Excavations in an Antique Land, 1840–1860 (New York: Routledge, 1996).
Melissa Barden Dowling (“The Vestal Virgins—Chaste Keepers of the Flame”) is a professor at Southern Methodist University. Her fascination with the various kinds of crime and punishment in the ancient world has resulted in her forthcoming book, Begging Pardon: Clemency and Cruelty in the Roman World (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press).
Jacob Klein (“The Birth of Kingship: From Democracy to Monarchy in Sumer”) is a professor of Hebrew and Semitic languages at Bar Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel. He is the author of The Royal Hymns of Shulgi, King of Ur: Man’s Quest for Immortal Fame (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1981).
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