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A warm thank-you for their splendid chapters and much-appreciated patience goes to all contributors to this volume. As is to be expected for a book of this size, some chapters were originally submitted substantially earlier than other ones, but all colleagues have responded in cheerful collegiality to my requests to ensure that the final version would be as up-to-date as possible. Amongst the contributors, I must single out (for reasons known to them) Jen Baird, Kim Czajkowski, Alberto Rigolio and, especially, Michael Sommer. I am truly grateful.

My thanks are also due to Eris Williams Reed for her insightful comments on an earlier draft of my introduction.

This volume is dedicated to the memory of Sir Fergus Millar, who passed away in the summer of 2019. Fergus was not a great fan of companions or handbooks, but when I asked him for his blessing of the project when I received the original commission he thought that, on the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, there might actually be some use for it. I am sorry that he did not live to see the final product. But surely the reader will perceive his presence as shining through in many of the pages that follow.