John F. Miller, Arthur F. and Marian W. Stocker Professor of Classics, University of Virginia,Jenny Strauss Clay, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Classics Emerita, University of Virginia

John F. Miller is Arthur F. and Marian W. Stocker Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1984 and served as chair of the Department of Classics from 1999 to 2014. He is the author of Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets (CUP, 2009), which was awarded the Charles Goodwin Award of Merit by the American Philological Association, and Ovid's Elegiac Festivals: Studies in the 'Fasti' (Peter Lang, 1991), and is also the co-editor of four collaborative volumes on Greek and Roman literature and culture. From 1991 until 1998 he was the Editor of Classical Journal.

Jenny Strauss Clay is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Classics Emerita at the University of Virginia, where she taught for 37 years, alongside holding visiting professorships at Duke University, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, and the Ecole Normale, Lyon. She has served as the President of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South and of the American Philological Association, and is the author of The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey (PUP, 1983), The Politics of Olympus: Form and Meaning in the Major Homeric Hymns (PUP, 1989), Hesiod's Cosmos (CUP, 2003), and Homer's Trojan Theater: Space, Vision, and Memory in the Iliad (CUP, 2011). In 2012-13 she was awarded a Humboldt Stiftung Preis.

Simone Beta, Associate Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Siena.

Thomas Biggs, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia.

Sandra Blakely, Associate Professor of Classics at Emory University.

Ljuba Merlina Bortolani, Akademische Mitarbeiterin at Heidelberg University.

Andrea Capra, Associate Professor (Reader) of Classics at Durham University.

Sergio Casali, Associate Professor at the University of Rome 'Tor Vergata'.

Jenny Strauss Clay, William R. Kenan Professor of Classics Emerita at the University of Virginia.

Helene Collard, Postdoctoral Researcher F.R.S.-FNRS (Belgian National Fund of Research) at the University of Liege.

Joseph Farrell, Professor of Classical Studies and Mark K. and Esther W. Watkins Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania.

S. J. Harrison, Professor of Latin Literature and Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford.

Carolyn M. Laferriere, Postdoctoral Associate in Ancient and Premodern Cultures and Civilizations at Yale University.

Jennifer Larson, Professor of Classics at Kent State University.

Duncan E. MacRae, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley .

John F. Miller, Arthur F. and Marian W. Stocker Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia.

Erin K. Moodie, Assistant Professor of Classics at Purdue University.

Micah Young Myers, Assistant Professor of Classics at Kenyon College.

Cecilia Nobili, Research Fellow at the University of Milan.

Nicola Reggiani, Ricercatore di Papirologia at the University di Parma.

H. Alan Shapiro, W. H. Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology, Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University.

Athanassios Vergados, Reader in Greek at Newcastle University.

Henk Versnel, Professor of Ancient History Emeritus at Leiden University.

Jenny Wallensten, Director of the Swedish Institute at Athens.

"The individual chapters are all of high quality. In their totality, they provide a comprehensive review of existing scholarship, and also to varying extents strike out on their own. As such, this book represents a major advance in scholarship." -- Andrew Faulkner, University of Waterloo, Canada, Religious Studies Review

"The volume covers an impressive chronological and geographical range and is the first sustained, interdisciplinary study of Hermes/Mercury, from which one emerges with an expanded view of the multifaceted god... The individual chapters are all of high quality. In their totality, they provide a comprehensive review of existing scholarship, and also to varying extents strike out on their own. As such, this book represents a major advance in scholarship." -- Andrew Faulkner, University of Waterloo, Canada, Religious Studies Review

"The contributions within the volume complement one another, drawing illuminating parallels between far-flung manifestations of this ever-wandering god. The collection has already become a standard reference work for all those studying Hermes/Mercury, opening many a fascinating research avenue to pursue this elusive god." -- Maciej Paprocki, Bryn Mawr Classical Review