About the Author

T. H. Carpenter is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Ohio University where he has taught since 1997. He was awarded a master’s degree in theology from Harvard and after earning his D.Phil. in classical archaeology at Oxford, he worked for four years as chief researcher at the Beazley Archive at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Professor Carpenter’s other books include Dionysian Imagery in Fifth-century Athens and Mythology, Greek and Roman.