Paulin Ismard is Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is the author of L'Événement Socrate, winner of the Sénat History Book Prize, and Democracy's Slaves: A Political History of Ancient Greece, originally published in French as La Démocratie contre les experts, which received the Rendez-vous de l'Histoire de Blois Prize and the François Millepierres Prize of the Académie Française.