James Romm is the James H. Ottaway, Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College. He edited the acclaimed volumes Herodotus: On the War for Greek Freedom and Alexander the Great: Selections from Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, and Quintus Curtius (Hackett). He is the author, most recently, of Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire (Knopf). The translations of Pamela Mensch appear in Alexander the Great (Hackett) and The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander (Pantheon). Her translation of Diogenes Laertius' Lives and Doctrines of Eminent Philosophers is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.