Dexter Hoyos is an Australian Latinist and ancient historian. After completing a DPhil in Roman history at Oxford (England) he took up an appointment at Sydney University in 1972, retiring in 2007 after thirty-six academic years. He is currently Honorary Associate Professor (research) in the department of Classics and Ancient History at Sydney.  He has written a number of books chiefly on Roman and Carthaginian history in the Third and Second Centuries BC, including Unplanned Wars: the Origins of the First and Second Punic Wars (Berlin-New York, 1998), Hannibal’s Dynasty: Power and Politics in the Western Mediterranean, 247–183 BC (London, 2003), Livy, Hannibal’s War: Books 21 to 30 (commentary, with translation by J.C. Yardley: Oxford-New York, 2006), Truceless War: Carthage’s Fight for Survival, 241–237 BC (Leiden, 2007), and Hannibal: Rome’s Greatest Enemy (Exeter, England, 2008). He has also written about thirty-five scholarly articles on Roman history and the study of Latin.