Acknowledgements

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This collection of papers derives from a conference held at the University of Auckland in January 2016. We are grateful to the university for its help in the organisation of the conference, as well as to the managers of the Staff Common Room at Old Government House for providing us with such an exceptional venue. We are also grateful to the Faculty of Arts, and particularly Robert Greenberg (Dean of the Faculty of Arts), as well as the School of Humanities, and specifically Malcolm Campbell (Head of the School of Humanities), for their generous financial support. We are similarly grateful to Massey University’s School of Humanities for its generous support in funding the conference, and especially to Kerry Taylor, the Head of the School. We should like to thank everyone who presented at the event, those who helped to chair sessions, those who assisted in its smooth running (Sinead Brennan-McMahon, Ashley Flavell, and Aaron RhodesSchroder, among many others), and those who attended and engaged in such a lively and fruitful manner. We should also like to thank Matthew Trundle (Head of Classics and Ancient History at Auckland) for his opening remarks and Christopher Smith for his excellent keynote address at the conference’s conclusion. The present volume would have obviously been impossible without the excellent people who contributed to it in various ways, not only the authors, but also the many anonymous peer-reviewers who very kindly agreed to assess the individual contributions. The latter cannot be named for obvious reasons, but we should also like to thank a few people who can: Han Baltussen and Arthur Pomeroy (the editors of Antichthon, who agreed to hand over the reins and who offered much support throughout), Heiko Westphal (copy-editor for Antichthon, whose contribution and efforts were invaluable and went far beyond those of a regular copy-editor), as well as Anne Mackay (President of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies) and the other members of the ASCS executive committee for similarly supporting us in this endeavour. At Cambridge University Press, we should like to thank Jamie McIntyre for his help and guidance in the more practical details of producing this edition.