About the Author

Richard Price is head of the History of Christianity subject group at Heythrop College, University of London. He is the author of Theodoret, History of the Monks of Syria: A Translation and Commentary, among other volumes. Mary Whitby is a lector, faculty of classics, and a lecturer in ancient Greek at Merton College, Oxford. She is the general editor of Liverpool University Press’s Translated Texts for Historians series.