Karen Bassi is Research Professor Emerita of Classics and Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the author of Acting Like Men, Drama and Nostalgia in Ancient Greece (1998) and Traces of the Past: Classics between History and Archaeology (2016). She co-edited When Worlds Elide: Classics, Politics, Culture with Peter Euben (2010). She is now working on a book titled Imitating the Dead: Facing Death in Ancient Greek Tragedy and Philosophy.