Acknowledgments
Thomas McGinn would like to thank Eileen McGinn for helping to make this project possible; the Vanderbilt University Research Council for its generous support during a leave in 1999, when the bulk of his work on the book was completed; and also the Interlibrary Loan staff of Vanderbilts Jean and Alexander Heard Library: James Toplon, Marilyn Pilley and Rachel Adams.
Bruce Frier wishes to thank the Cook Research Fund of the University of Michigan Law School, which supported his work on the book over several summers; as well as Kendra Eschle- man, who assisted in his research.Both authors are grateful to Judith Evans Grubbs for her extremely insightful comments on the text. We also appreciate the care with which our manuscript was reviewed by the American Philological Association and its two anonymous readers; we especially thank Joel Lidov and Jeffrey Rusten, who oversaw the approval process. At Oxford University Press, the manuscript was skillfully and speedily edited by Jessica Ryan and Pamela Bruton.
We have dedicated this book to our families.
B. W F and T. A. J. McG.