Nicole Loraux (1943–2003) was the chair of the Department of History and Anthropology of the Greek Polis at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She was the author of The Divided City, The Children of Athena, The Experiences of Tiresia, Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman, and Mothers in Mourning, among other titles.Gregory Nagy is the Frances Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and a professor of comparative literature at Harvard University, where he is also the director of the Center for Hellenic Studies.Laura Slatkin is a professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU and a visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The Power of Thetis.
