Margalit Finkelberg is Professor of Classics (emeritus) at Tel Aviv University and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She has authored The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece (1998), Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition (Cambridge, 2005), Homer (2014; Hebrew), The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato's Dialogues (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays (2020), and numerous scholarly articles. She is the editor of The Homer Encyclopedia (3 vols.; 2011).