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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The editor of any large collection must first and foremost thank the contributors. This truism is even more true in the case of Herodotus, whose vast scope requires the expertise of specialists in a broad array of modern disciplines. That academic diversity can be seen in the list of contributors (xiii–xxxv): 181 scholars, based in 18 different nations, from current graduate students to the most senior (or retired) professors. From the beginning of this project, I have been continually impressed by the erudition, generosity, patience, and good humor of this community of scholars. Herodotus is well‐served.

The reader will find my name attached to several hundred entries in this encyclopedia. That was not the initial intention, nor does it fully reveal the process by which this massive work came into being. Florencia Foxley and Lester Stephens, during their time in the Classics MA program at Notre Dame, assisted in the preparation of approximately 200 entries each (initial research, collecting notes, writing rough drafts). Their work saved me many hours and helped me begin to gain a sense of what form the final product would take. All errors remain my responsibility.

My Herodotus class at Notre Dame in Spring 2017 accepted their assignment—with not just good humor, but genuine enthusiasm—to prepare an initial draft of an entry (or entries): Steven Garden, Alyssa Grant, Thomas Karam, Stephen Kilbourn, Judy Kim, Mark Mariani, Livvie May, Ellis Sargeant, Jordan Shead, and Will Wolf. I thank them for their assistance and good cheer. In addition, several of the graduate students from that class signed on as regular contributors to write one or more entries. Their names will be found attached to those entries, but I thank them here as well: Raleigh Heth, William Stover, Romain Thurin, and Ryan Walker.

Two more graduate students who became regular contributors deserve special mentions of my gratitude. Angela Zautcke was part of the Herodotus class; she volunteered to write more entries and ended up contributing around twenty of them. Melody Wauke, my research assistant in Fall 2018, wrote more than forty entries and identified a number of thorny issues (she now knows more than most about the rivers of northern Greece). I marvel at their diligence and attention to detail, which helped me complete this project more quickly than I would have otherwise.

Special thanks also go to those contributors who responded to cries for help and joined the project, or took on additional entries, at an advanced stage: David Branscome, Aideen Carty, Peter Hunt, Bryant Kirkland, Donald Lateiner, Carolina López‐Ruiz, Mark Mash, Matt Simonton. And to scholars who assisted with matters of detail outside my comfort zone: Denise Demetriou, Liz Irwin, Danielle Kellogg, Angela McDonald, Hannah Ringheim, Matt Waters, Josef Wiesehöfer. Finally, Alison Lanski gamely wrote a large number of entries on “minor” people and places.

At the initial stage of the project, I received welcome assistance from Kelly Taylor, Natalie Sargent, and Florencia Foxley in producing the list of headwords. Along the way, Maria Giulia Genghini and Jasper Donelan provided valuable translations of contributions written in foreign languages. And at the end, Maria Ma bravely proofread several hundred entries, highlighted potential concerns, and helped me create the maps—another late but, I hope, valuable addition to these volumes. Rosemary Morlin, as copy editor, supplied a much‐needed extra set of eyes, detecting and correcting numerous errors in the final manuscript.

My advisory board has supported me in numerous ways for the past six years: Emily Baragwanath, Bob Fowler, John Marincola, and Rosaria Munson. They were crucial in helping to formulate the list of headwords (especially Emily and Rosaria), in identifying potential contributors around the world (special thanks to Bob and John), and in navigating a few minor crises along the way. I hope I have accepted the wise advice they offered more effectively than Herodotus’ characters do. I also want to recognize my colleagues at Notre Dame and in the field whose conversations helped sustain me through this arduous process: Sue Collins, Carolyn Dewald, John Duffy, Randolph Ford, Liz Irwin, Rebecca Kennedy, Brian Krostenko, Hildegund Müller, Simon Oswald, Victoria Pagan, Hannah Ringheim, Andreas Schwab, Andrew Scott, Lela Urquhart, Pietro Vannicelli, and Liv Yarrow.

At Wiley, Liz Wingett has guided me through the production process and waited patiently as “target dates” come and go. I have worked with a number of editorial assistants over these six years, but it is Kelley Baylis who has made things as easy as possible for me. I thank Emma Brown for handling image permissions with minimal effort on my part. But above all I owe a debt of gratitude to Haze Humbert (who has since moved on), who approached me in late 2012 about taking on this crazy project. She convinced me that it was worth it and that I was capable of doing it, and provided moral support and calming conversation when I needed it.

Financial support from two offices at the University of Notre Dame was crucial, especially in the early stages. A Faculty Initiation Grant from the Office of the Vice President for Research, plus a Large Humanities Research Grant from the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, allowed me to retain the services of several of the people mentioned above. Generous funds provided by the Office of the Vice President for Research for library acquisitions in 2014 added significantly to our Herodotus‐related collection.

I owe many thanks to the staff at the Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame, especially in Circulation and ILL/Document Delivery; to Julia Schneider, the Medieval Studies Librarian; to the late David Sullivan; and to my colleague David Gura, Curator of Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts and a man of many hats. Significant portions of this encyclopedia were hammered out and smoothed over in the Stavros Niarchos Reading Room for Byzantine and Classical Studies at the Hesburgh Library, and also in the Classics Reading Room of the Joseph Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago.

Above all, I would not have survived this project without Jessica Baron, who patiently put up with my suffering—as she likes to say, “It’s a good thing Herodotus is already dead”—and even agreed to contribute some wonderful entries of her own. And, as always, my thanks to Hildegarde, who will have mixed feelings about the lack of open books lying around the house.

Christopher Baron

South Bend, Indiana, May 2019