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The British writer Barry Unsworth (“Imagining the Minoans”) is the author of several novels, including The Song of the Kings (2003), Morality Play (1995), Sacred Hunger (which won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize in 1992) and After Hannibal (1977). He currently lives in Umbria.

James D. Muhly (“Excavating Minoan Sites”), formerly a professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and a recently retired director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, is the author of scores of scholarly articles and full-length works on the Bronze Age in the Aegean and the Near East.

The Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Barry B. Powell (“Deciphering Cretan Scripts”) is the author of Homer (2003) and Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet (1991) and co-editor (with Ian Morris) of A New Companion to Homer (1997). His article “Who Invented the Alphabet: The Semites or the Greeks?” appeared in Archaeology Odyssey, Premiere Issue, 1998.

David Soren (“Augustus Takes the Cure”), Regents Professor of Classics and Classical Archaeology at the University of Arizona, has excavated in Tunisia, Cyprus and Italy. His article “Death at Kourion” appeared in Archaeology Odyssey, July/August 2003.

The British writer Barry Unsworth (“Imagining the Minoans”) is the author of several novels, including The Song of the Kings (2003), Morality Play (1995), Sacred Hunger (which won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize in 1992) and After Hannibal (1977). He currently lives in Umbria. James D. Muhly (“Excavating Minoan Sites”), formerly a professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and a recently retired director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, is the author of scores of scholarly articles and full-length works on the Bronze Age in the Aegean and the Near East. […]