Author

Anthony Kaldellis

Anthony Kaldellis is a historian of Byzantium and professor at the University of Chicago. He earned his doctorate in classics and specializes in Byzantine Greek literature and history, with a focus on how Byzantines understood politics, culture, and religion. His expertise is grounded in scholarly research and peer-reviewed publications on Byzantine texts and historiography. He is the author of A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities and also wrote The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome and Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of Greek Culture.