Jeffrey Beneker is a professor of classics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the coeditor and translator of The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes: Progymnasmata from Twelfth-Century Byzantium. Georgia Tsouvala is an associate professor of history at Illinois State University and the coauthor of Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History.

A highly original group of essays. The authors (as well as the editors) have splendidly accomplished their goal of documenting how close study of the language and iconography, and careful scrutiny of artistic and literary qualities and allusions, illuminate evolving attitudes about marriage. They have made a major contribution to the study of marriage in Greco-Roman antiquity." —Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park"Illuminating. Presents a good mixture of work by an international array of senior and midcareer scholars." —Sarah B. Pomeroy, Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City of New York