Gerald V. Lalonde, Ph.D (1971), University of Washington, is Benedict Professor Emeritus of Classics at Grinnell College. His scholarship in Athenian epigraphy, topography, and religion includes The Athenian Agora XIX (1991) with M. K. Langdon and M. B. Walbank, and Horos Dios (Brill 2006).

In Athena Itonia Gerald V. Lalonde offers a comparative study of the social, political and military aspects of the cult of Athena Itonia and its propagation among the four regions of ancient Greece where major evidence has come to light.