Jennifer T. Roberts is Professor of Classics and History at the City College of New York and the City University of New York Graduate Center. A past president of the Association of Ancient Historians, she specialises in the theory and practice of democracy and in the intellectual and political history of Greece during the classical period. Her books include Accountability in Athenian Government, Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought, The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece, Thucydides: A Very Short Introduction, Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction and Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture.