D. S. Levene is Professor of Classics at New York University; he has previously held positions in Oxford, Durham, and Leeds. He has written extensively on Latin historiography and other aspects of Latin prose literature, including two previous books on Livy, Religion in Livy (1993) and Livy on the Hannibalic War (Oxford University Press, 2010). He has also published widely in fields including Roman religion, ancient Judaism, and the reception of the classical world in 19th century literature and 20th century cinema.