Emma BridgesEmma Bridges is a Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University, UK. Her doctoral thesis, completed at the University of Durham, focused on the representation of Xerxes in ancient literature from the fifth century BC to the second sophitic. In 2007 she co-edited (with Edith Hall and P. J. Rhodes) a volume entitled Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium. Read More Read Less