The Editors : Bruce Karl Braswell studied Classics at the Universities of Toronto, Oxford (D.Phil.), Bonn, and FU Berlin (Habilitation). He has taught at the universities in Berlin and Fribourg and has published widely on Greek language and literature, esp. Pindar. His current areas of research are : Pindar, Greek lexicography, and the History of classical scholarship. Margarethe Billerbeck studied Classics at the Universities of Basel, FU Berlin (Dr.phil.), and Oxford (D.Phil.).
Since 1987 she has been professor of Greek and Latin Language and Literature (German-language chair) at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). She has published widely in the field of Greek and Roman popular philosophy, Latin poetry of the Imperial period, esp. Seneca's tragedies, and Greek lexicography. Her current areas of research are : Seneca and Stephanos of Byzantium, Ethnika.