Emperors and Imperial Dynasties of Byzantium

Sviatoslav Dmitriev (Ph.D. Harvard) is an Associate Professor of History at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. He has published articles on ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine history and authored books on city administration in ancient Asia Minor, the Roman appropriation of Greek political vocabulary, kinship relations in archaic and classical Athens, and the ways in which ancient and Byzantine rhetorical education has distorted our vision ofclassical Greece. His current book project, provisionally titled The World of John Lydus: Constructing Identity in Early Byzantium, delineates how John Lydus and his fellow-intellectuals reinterpreted the past toaccommodate sixth-century Byzantium’s conflicting identities.