Oleg GabelkoAndreas Mehl was professor and chair of ancient history at the universities of Koblenz-Landau, Darmstadt, Erlangen-Nurnberg, and Halle-Wittenberg (since October 2011 retired). His fields of research are ancient, especially Roman historiography, Helleism (Seleucid empire, Cyprus), the history of ancient Cyprus, and ancient culture and civilization. Alexander Makhlayuk is professor of ancient history and head of the Department of Ancient and Medieval History in the Nizhny Novgorod State University. His fields of research are Greek and Roman historiography, Roman history, especially Roman war and army history, and the Second Sophistic. Oleg Gabelko is professor of ancient history in the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies of the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow. His field of research is Hellenistic history, especially the Thracians, Asia Minor, the Eastern Celts, kingship, dynastic history, and regional and local chronologies. Read More Read Less