Ayelet Haimson Lushkov is an associate professor of classics at UT-Austin. She is interested in Roman historiography, political narratives, and the modern reception of classical antiquity from cricket to Game of Thrones. Her first book, Magistracy and the Historiography of the Roman Republic: Politics in Prose, came out in 2015, and her second, You Win or You Die: The Ancient World of Game of Thrones, in 2017. Her writing has also been published in The Guardian, USA Today, CNN, and The Hill, as well as other venues. Find her on Twitter at @Dr_AHL, or visit her website.