480 BCE. The Persian Attack on Athens and its Impact on the Study of Ancient Greece

Janric van Rookhuijzen is a researcher at Radboud University, Nijmegen. Following his dissertation entitled Herodotus and the Topography of Xerxes’ Invasion. Place and Memory in Greece and Anatolia (Berlin 2018), he published widely on the archaeology of the Athenian Acropolis.Josine Blok is professor emeritus in Ancient History and Classical Civilization at Utrecht University. Her publications include Citizenship in Classical Athens (Cambridge 2017) and, with Irad Malkin, Drawing Lots: From Egalitarianism to Democracy in Ancient Greece (Oxford 2024).Floris van den Eijnde, lecturer and researcher of Ancient History at Utrecht University, studies religious and cultural interactions in the Ancient Mediterranean world. His work focuses on the rise of the Athenian polis (1200–500 BCE) and the role of sanctuaries in identity formation.Contributors are: Mathieu de Bakker, Floris van den Eijnde, Federico Figura, Angelika Kellner, André Lardinois, Michael Laughy, Kathleen M. Lynch, Suzanne Marchand, Steve F. Matter, Marion Meyer, Giorgia Proietti, Janric van Rookhuijzen, Susan I. Rotroff, Anja Slawisch, Hans van Wees