Barbara Holler is working in Ancient History and was awarded a doctorate from the University of Zurich with a dissertation on the financing of public sacrifices in the Hellenistic Polis. She is currently preparing the publication of her book and is pursuing a project on the depiction of historians of antiquity in contemporary novels. Moreover, she is interested in various forms of receptions of antiquity. She is the managing director of the Zurich Center for the Study of the Ancient World at the University of Zurich.