Editor’s Note

Everything flows; nothing stands still. My first issue as editor of TAPA comes at an exciting time in the life of our organization. The American Philological Association will soon officially become the Society for Classical Studies, and then Transactions of the American Philological Association will simply become its acronym, TAPA. The mission of this journal, however, has not changed: my goal for the next four years is to continue the longstanding tradition of publishing significant, original research on Greek and Roman antiquity, written in an engaging style for broad appeal to our Association’s membership.

I would like to thank the APA Publications Committee and its chair Michael Gagarin; APA Executive Director Adam Blistein; Information Architect Sam Huskey; Chaden Djalali, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Provost Barry Butler at the University of Iowa for providing financial support and office space; John Finamore, Chair of the Department of Classics at Iowa, for encouraging me to pursue this position and for funding an excellent, keen-eyed editorial assistant, Matthew Horrell; my former chair, Carin Green, for setting me on this path some years ago when she asked me to edit Syllecta Classica; my former co-editor and mentor Peter Green, whose professionalism and judgment as an editor have profoundly influenced my own practice; the numerous anonymous referees (91 and counting), whose expertise and willingness to help their colleagues sharpen their thinking and writing make this journal possible; and my wife and children for their patience and understanding.

Finally, I would like to thank my predecessor Katharina Volk for her superb editorship over the past four years. She has smoothed the transition by generously providing instructions, advice, and prompt answers to questions great and small over the past year. She also accepted four of the six articles in this issue for publication.