PHILIP 'MATY' MATYSZAK has a degree in Ancient History from Oxford University's St John's College and has been studying, teaching, and writing on the topic for over two decades. He is an expert in Classical Greece as well as Rome's Late Republic and Early Imperial periods. Maty has served in the military as a conscript in Rhodesia and with the Territorial Army in the United Kingdom. He now spends his days writing in the Monashee Mountains of Canada and teaching e-learning courses at Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education.