sentences:  She has stated that Aristophanes is the person she would most like to meet from the ancient world.Several of her books argue that theatre plays an important role in intellectual and cultural history, especially because entertainments reach lower-status audiences.These include "Greek and Roman Actors" (2002, with Professor Pat Easterling), and "The Theatrical Cast of Athens" (2006), which incorporates a revisiting of "Inventing the Barbarian" in the light of developments in international history since 1989.