Paul Cartledge is A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture in the University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Clare College, Cambridge. Over the course of his distinguished career he has written and edited numerous books on the ancient Greek world, including The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others, also published by Oxford University Press, and most recently the Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece. He also served as chief historical consultant for the BBC television series The Greeks.