Catharine Edwards is a professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck, University of London where she has been since 2006, and is one of the world's foremost experts on Roman History. A Fellow of the British Academy, she has published extensively on Roman cultural history, including academic books. She translated Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars for Oxford World's Classics, is a regular contributor for the BBC, and writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement.