Ralf KrumeichRalf Krumeich has been Privatdozent of Classical Archaeology at the University of Bonn since 2006. After studying at the University of Bonn and the Freie Universitat Berlin, he wrote a dissertation at the Freie Universitat Berlin on the portraits of reek rulers and statesmen of the 5th century BC. After returning from the Reisestipendium (1994/95) granted by the German Archaeological Institute, he has been employed as Assistant Professor at both the University of Munich (LMU) and the University of Bonn. In 2006 he completed his Habilitation at the University of Bonn, working on theatre-related iconography in Attic and Western Greek ('Italian') vase-paintings of the 6th-4th centuries BC. He also taught at the Ruhr-Universitat of Bochum. His current interests include Greek portraits in their social and religious context, Athens and Delos in the Hellenistic and Imperial periods, images of the Greek theatre and the interaction between the Greek, Roman and Oriental cultures in the Hellenistic and Imperial periods. Christian Witschel has been Full Professor of Ancient History at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg since 2005. After studying at the Freie Universitat Berlin and Oxford, he wrote a dissertation at Frankfurt a.M. University on the third century AD in the western half of the Roman Empire. In 2004 he completed his Habilitation at the LMU in Munich, working on the means and mechanisms of imperial representation in the Roman Empire. He has been employed as Assistant Professor at both the RKU Heidelberg and the LMU Munich. His current interests include Roman History (especially the history of cities in Late Antiquity), changes in forms of representation in the Roman Empire, statues in Hellenistic an Roman times, Latin epigraphy, and the end of Roman rule in the northwest provinces. Read More Read Less