PAULIN ISMARD is Professor of Ancient Greek History at Aix-Marseille University. He is a former member of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies and of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He has received several awards: the Prix du livre d'histoire du Sénat (2014), Grand Prix des Rendez-Vous de l'Histoire de Blois (2016) and Prix François Millepierres de l'Académie Française (2016). He is also the author of Democracy's Slaves. A Political History of Ancient Greece (2017), La cité et ses esclaves (2019) and Les mondes de l'esclavage. Une histoire comparée (2021).
