Edward Harris, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History (Durham University), has published extensively on Athenian political history and institutions, the law of Ancient Greece, and the economy of ancient Greece. He has published Democracy and the Rule of Law in Classical Athens (Cambridge University Press 2006) and The Rule of Law in Action in Democratic Athens(Oxford University Press 2013) and translated Demosthenes Speeches 20-22 and Demosthenes Speeches 23-26 (University of Texas). With David Lewis and Mark Woolmer, he has co-editedThe Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States(Cambridge University Press 2016) with Edmund Stewart and David Lewis, Skilled Labour and Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome (Cambridge University Press 2020), and with Sylvian Fachard The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World (Cambridge University Press 2021).  He has been a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and NEH Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.

 

Sylvian Fachard is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Lausanne and Director of the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece. He previously taught at the universities of Geneva, Brown and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, where he held the position of A.W. Mellon Professor (2017-2020). A specialist in the fortifications and territories of Greek city-states, he has directed excavations and surveys in Eretria, Amarynthos, Argos, and Attica. His knowledge of the sites, monuments, museums, and topography of Greece is extensive. Members of the American School have enjoyed his tours around Eretria—a site on which he is a leading expert who has published multiple studies and co-authored volumes—since 2004..