Dr. Sarah B. Pomeroy is an American ancient historian, author, translator, and former Distinguished Professor of Classics and History at C.U.N.Y. She is best known for her pioneering work on the history of women in classical antiquity. Pomeroy graduated from Barnard College and received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is the author of many books including Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity, Women in Hellenistic Egypt, Spartan Women, The Murder of Regilla: A Case of Domestic Violence in Antiquity, and Pythagorean Women. She has received many awards and honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, is an Honorary Fellow of St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, and has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.