Robert Parker, University of Oxford,Philippa M. Steele, University of Cambridge

Robert Parker was Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at Oriel College, Oxford, from 1976-1996, and Wykeham Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford from 1996 until retirement in 2016.

Philippa M. Steele is a Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, where she directs the ERC-funded project Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS, grant no. 677758). She is a Senior Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

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