William Furley: Current Projects

  1. Area Editor (Greece) for Prayer in the Ancient World. An interdisciplinary collection of representative prayers and hymnic texts from the Ancient Mediterranean. General Editors Daniel Falk and Rodney Werline
  2. Under consideration: Edition of Menander Sikyonios
  3. A new edition of Heliodorus Aithiopika, with translation, introduction and commentary, with Liverpool Classical Press. The Aithiopika is a fourth-century romance set in Greece, Egypt and Ethiopia, following the fortunes of an impossibly beautiful couple Theagenes and Charikleia as they encounter near death at every turn. The modern category 'romantasy' applies perfectly! Announced for Dec. 2026, and can be pre-ordered here (two volumes)!
  4. And in connection with that, an edition of two newly discovered verse inscriptions from Homs/Emesa (Heliodorus' home town -- but they have nothing to do with him). They express Western (that is, Byzantine) belligerence against Persia!