Francisco Javier Gómez Espelosín, professor of Ancient History at the University of Alcalá, is the author of numerous books on the ancient Greek world such as The Image of Spain in Antiquity (1995), Travel Stories of Ancient Greek Literature (1996), Egyptmania (1997), Alexander the Great, from History to Myth (1997), Introduction to Ancient Greece (1998), The Discovery of the World (2000) and History of Ancient Greece (2001).