"A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year" Emily Hauser is a senior lecturer in classics and ancient history at the University of Exeter and was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She coedited Reading Poetry, Writing Genre, and is the author of a critically acclaimed trilogy of novels that reimagines the women of Greek myth: For the Most Beautiful, For the Winner, and For the Immortal. How the idea of the author was born in the...

Deborah Tarn Steiner is Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. She is the author of The Crown of Song: Metaphor in Pindar, and The Tyrant's Writ: Myths and Images of Writing in Ancient Greece (Princeton). In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about--and interacted with--statues...