Download PDF | Personification in the Greek World_ From Antiquity to Byzantium, by Emma Stafford and Judith Herrin, Routledge, 2005.
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About the Contributors
Arlene Allan is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Otagar, having previously been Visiting Lecturer at Northwestern University (2001-02) and Assistant Professor at Trent University (2002-04). She held the Leventis Graduate Research scholarship at the University of Exeter from 1998-2001, successfully completing her PhD, The Lyre, The Whip and the Staff of Gold: Readings in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, in 2003.
Barbara E. Borg is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Exeter, having previously been Hochschuldozentin at the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Among her major fields of interest are the iconography and the ‘rhetorics’ of images, both Greek and Roman. The same interest guided her study of personifications, which is the subject of her Der Logos des Mythos: Allegorien und Personifikationen in der griechischen Kunst (Munich 2002).
Walter Burkert has been Professor of Classics at the University of Zurich (1969-96) and visiting professor at Harvard, Berkeley and other universities in the USA. His research concentrates on ancient Greek philosophy and religion, their interrelation, oriental contacts, and perspectives of anthropology. His major publications include Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism (Harvard 1972), Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual (Sather Lectures 1979), Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical (Harvard 1985), The Orientalizing Revolution (Harvard 1992), Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions (Harvard 1996).
Diana Burton is Lecturer in Classics at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research interests centre around death and immortalisation in ancient Greek myth, and particularly the iconography of death-related figures. She is working on a book on the immortalisation of heroes in archaic Greek art and myth.
Iskra Gencheva-Mikami was Assistant and then Associate Professor in Roman History and Late Antiquity at the University of Sofia ‘St. Climent Ohridski’ and the New Bulgarian University, Sofia (1993-2001). She is currently a visiting professor at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan. Among her main research interests and publications are various aspects of Roman imperial bureaucracy: bureaucracy and art, bureaucracy and religion, bureaucracy and politics. Her research on the Notitia dignitatum is connected with these major fields of interest.
Judith Herrin is Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at King’s College London. From 1995 to 2002 she was Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, KCL, which sponsors conferences such as the one devoted to Personification and publishes the proceedings. Her most recent book is Women in Purple. Rulers of Medieval Byzantium (2001) and she is currently working on an introductory study, a Byzantium for beginners. Janet Huskinson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classical Studies at the Open University. Her research interests are in the art of Roman empire and its relationship with the society which produced and used it, and she has also written on sarcophagi and portrait sculpture.
Liz James is a Reader in the Department of Art History, University of Sussex, where she teaches Byzantine art. Her book, Empresses and Power in Early Byzantium (London 2001) looks at the representations of female power in Byzantium and she is interested in the changing iconographies of empresses.
Elizabeth Jeffreys is Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Literature in the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Exeter College. She works on texts that are at the interface between spoken and written medieval Greek. Her recent publications include editions of the fourteenth-century War of Troy and the twelfth-century epic-romance Digenis Akritis.
Irina Kovaleva is Associate Professor of Classics at Moscow State Lomonosov University. She has been British Academy Visiting Scholar (1995) and Alexandras S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation Scholar (1996). She has published over 70 essays on ancient Greek mythology, philosophy and literature, as well as on Modern Greek and Russian literature. Her PhD thesis was on The Peculiarities of the Genre of Maximus of Tyre's Orationes (1990), and her publications include: Joseph Brodsky, Centaurs: Antique Motifs (St Petersburg 2001); (in Russian) Miltos Sachtouris, The Head of a Poet (Moscow 2003); (translation into Russian and introductory article) Metamorfoseis poleon (Moscow, 2003). She is currently working on a monograph on Greek mythology, Teiresias and Actaion: Narrative and Non-Narrative Structures of Myth.
Efthymios G. Lazongas is a researcher in archaeology. His doctoral research, submitted during the year 2004 in the University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne, is entitled NAOS. La symbolique du temple grec dans Tart et la religion. The place of symbols in Greek religion is his major area of research, though he is also interested in other aspects of Greek religion, in architecture, in decorative patterns and in iconography.
Ruth Leader-Newby recently held a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Classics, King’s College London. Her research interests include the relationship between education and visual culture in late antiquity, and the role of inscriptions and name-labels in late Roman art. She is also the author of Silver and Society in Late Antiquity: Aspects and Meanings of Silver Plate in the Fourth to Seventh Centuries AD (Aldershot 2004).
Penelope Murray is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Warwick. She has written on a wide variety of topics in ancient literature and is particularly interested in poetics. Her publications include Plato on Poetry (Cambridge 1996) and Music and the Muses in Classical Athenian Culture, ed. with Peter Wilson (Oxford 2004).
Eva Parisinou is Associate Lecturer at the Open University. She is author of a book on light in Greek cult (The Light of the Gods: the Role of Light in Archaic and Classical Greek Cult, Duckworth 2000) and several articles on Greek social history, art and archaeology.
Nicolas Richer is Professor of Greek History at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon, having previously worked at the University of Strasbourg (Strasbourg-II). He has written especially about Archaic and Classical Sparta (Les tLphores. fctudes sur I'histoire et sur l'image de Sparte (VIIIe-IHe siecle avant Jesus-Christ, Paris 1998).
Kristen Seaman is a PhD candidate at the University of California at Berkeley. She received her BA from Yale University and was a Regular Member and Fulbright Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens during 2002-03. She has excavated in Greece, Italy and Israel, and her main research interests are sculpture and the interrelationship of art and text.
Am y C. Smith is Lecturer in Classics and Curator of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology at the University of Reading. She is interested in Greek and Roman art, particularly in the spheres of politics, myth, and religion. Her work on personifications comprises several articles and a forthcoming book, Personifications of Political Ideas in Classical Athenian Art. She is currently writing a volume of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum for the Ure Museum.
Lucas Siorvanes is Lecturer in Philosophy, member of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, Kings College University of London. He has been a Dumbarton Oaks Fellow and Fulbright Senior Scholar. Author of Proclus. Neo-Platonic Philosophy and Science (Edinburgh and New Haven 1996). He has articles in Ancient Philosophy, Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Documenti e Studi Filosofica Medievale, also in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998) and the Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition (London and Chicago 2000). With J.O. Urmson, Simplicius: Corollaries on Place and Time, The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle (Ithaca and London 1992).
Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek and Director of the Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception (CADRE), University of Nottingham. He has published widely on Greek tragedy and comedy, and also on aspects of the Greek language. His major publications include Aeschylean Tragedy (Bari 1996), Greek Drama and Dramatists (London and New York 2002), and editions of the eleven comedies of Aristophanes (Aris & Phillips 1980-2001) and of Aeschylus’ Eumenides (Cambridge 1989). He is at present preparing a collaborative edition of selected fragmentary tragedies of Sophocles.
Emma Stafford is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Leeds. The place of personifications in Greek religion is her major area of research, though she is also interested in other aspects of Greek religion and in iconography. Her publications include Worshipping Virtues: Personification and the Dwine in Ancient Greece (Swansea and London 2000).
Kerasia Stratiki is a PhD student at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). Her major area of research is the place of heroic cult in ancient Greek religion, and the socio-political function of heroes and heroines in the Greek polis. Her research interests also include other aspects of Greek religion in literature, in archaeology and in iconography.
N aoko Yamagata is Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University. Her main area of interest is epic poetry, especially Homer and Hesiod. Her article in this volume revisits from a new angle the topic of Ate and the Litai discussed in her book Homeric Morality (Leiden 1994), chapter 4.
Yorgis Yatromanolakis is Professor of Classics at Athens University. He has published widely on ancient Greek literature, especially on Greek tragedy, post-Homeric literature and the ancient novel, and on Greek literary criticism. He has translated into modern Greek Euripides’ Medea, Aristophanes’ Ploutos, Horace’s Ars Poetica, Ovid’s Remedia Amoris, Achilles Tatius, Dictys Cretencis and others. He has also published on modern Greek literature, especially on D. Solomos, C.P. Cavafy, G. Seferis, O. Elytis, A. Empeirikos, Y. Ritsos, etc. Four of his novels are now in print in English. He is at the present preparing a new translation of the Iliad.
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