David W. Marshall, PhD, is a historian and Professor Emeritus at Texas Tech University. For four decades, he has researched the history of Archaic and Classical Greece in libraries, archives, and museums throughout Europe and North America, and at more than two hundred Hellenic archeological and historic sites in Greece and adjoining countries. His broader studies of ancient and primitive cultures have led him to remote villages and related sites in seventy-seven countries and seven continents. In addition to academic publications, he is the author of: Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West (Countryman Press, W.W. Norton, 2017), and Ancient Skies: Constellation Mythology of the Greeks (Countryman Press, W.W.

Norton, 2018).