David SansoneDAVID SANSONE is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published on topics ranging from Bronze-Age iconography to the poetry of John Milton and the music dramas of Richard Wagner. He specializes in Greek language and literature and is the author of Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport (1988), Greek Drama and the Invention of Rhetoric (2012), Ancient Greek Civilization (2016) and Plato: Menexenus (Cambridge, 2020). Read More Read Less