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acknowledgments This book began its life as a doctoral dissertation in classical studies at Duke University. Accordingly, I would like to thank my dissertation committee: Mary T. Boatwright, Kent Rigsby, Diskin Clay, Grant Parker, and George Houston. I am particularly indebted to Mary Boatwright, who served as my advisor at Duke and has aided me immeasurably, both during and after my graduate career. Various colleagues at Connecticut College have selflessly offered me guidance : Dirk Held, Richard Moorton, David Greven, Lindsey Harlan, Geoffrey Atherton, and Andrew Pessin. Richard Moorton deserves special mention , since he greatly improved my clunky translations. As a faculty member at Connecticut College, I was fortunate to receive summer research stipends from Judith Opatrny. Thanks are also due to Gregory Nagy, who allowed me access to the Center for Hellenic Studies during the summer of 2008.Temple Wright and the staff at the Center were helpful as well. During that summer I used the house of my sister, Amy Adler, and my brother-in-law, Mike Donahue, as home base for my research, and I would like to acknowledge their kindness to me. An earlier iteration of small portions of chapters 1 and 2 originally appeared in Classical Journal (“Who’s Anti-Roman? Sallust and Pompeius Trogus on Mithridates,” CJ 101 [2006]: 383–407). I would like to thank S. Douglas Olson for permitting me to reprint an altered and expanded version of that article. The same thanks are due to Matthew S. Santirocco, since small portions of chapters 5 and 6 originally appeared in different form in Classical World (“Boudica’s Speeches in Tacitus and Dio,” CW 101 [2008]: 173–195). Various scholars offered me good advice during the long process of expanding and altering my dissertation into a monograph: Alexander Beecroft, Scott McGill, Christopher Nappa, and Jeffrey Stackert. I fear I have forgotten to name others; if so, I apologize. I owe a debt of gratitude also to the staff at the University of Texas Press, especially Jim Burr, Leslie Tingle, Kerri Cox Sullivan, and Nancy Bryan. The x acknowledgments same holds true for Victoria Pagán and the anonymous referees for UT Press, whose comments and suggestions greatly improved this book. Additionally, I would like to acknowledge friends and loved ones who offered me support: Leah Ammon, Will Baker, James Barondess, Matthew Diamond, Calvert Jones, Lili Jones, Rachel Kaplan, Daniel Mathews, Jeremy Pienik, Anna Stroman Rittgers, and Akira Yatsuhashi. Most of all, however, I would like to thank my parents, Joel and Nancy Adler. I could never have written this monograph—or even persevered through a career in classics—without their love and support. Accordingly, I dedicate this book to them. ...

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