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Zissis D. Ainalis holds a PhD in Byzantine History from the University Paris 1 (PanthéonSorbonne). His dissertation dealt with literary representations of taboo and transgression in the Late Antique society of the Christian Orient (4th-7th centuries). His major research interests concern Narrative and narrative literature in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Lives of Saints, monastic literature, the Graeco-Roman novel, Medieval Greek narration) and socio-cultural history. He is a member of the Institut de Recherches sur Byzance, l’Islam et la Méditerranée au Moyen Âge (irbimma).
Thomas Arentzen is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo, where he works on Byzantine hymns and homilies in a project called Bodies in Motion: Religion and Corporeality in Late Antiquity. Arentzen holds a doctorate in Theology from Lund University. Recent publications include The Virgin in Song: Mary and the Poetry of Romanos the Melodist (2017). He is currently co-editing the volume The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium, which is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Pierre Bonnechere is currently Professor at the Université de Montréal and since 2015 Affiliate Professor at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History of the University of Uppsala. His main fields are Greek religion and mentalities. He has published extensively on sacrifice and divination, and is now leading an international team to re-edit, translate, and comment the entire corpus of the lamellae from the oracle at Dodona. He is also working on a large research project on the vortex in Ancient Greek thought and iconography.
Eric Cullhed is a postdoctoral research fellow in Greek Philology at Uppsala University, working on Greek, Latin, Swedish and Latin American literary and intellectual history, especially archaic epic poetry and its reception. He is producing a critical edition of the twelfth-century orator Eustathios of Thessalonike’s Commentary on Homer’s Odyssey (first volume published in 2016), and has translated Greek, Latin and Italian literature into Swedish, especially Dante Alighieri (2012) and Cicero (2017). He is currently investigating ancient stylistic theories on the ‘forms of speech’ in the light of recent debates within philosophical aesthetics, empirical aesthetics and cognitive psychology. Gunnel Ekroth is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University since 2011. She works on Greek religion and particularly ritual practices, exploring aspects such as animal sacrifice, altars, waste management and sacred space from a combination of written, iconographical and archaeological evidence, including animal bones. Among her publications are The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults (2002) and the edited volume Bones, Behavior and Beliefs: The Zooarchaeological Evidence as a Source for Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece and Beyond (2013).
Wiebke Friese is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Emergence of Sacred Travel project at Aarhus University, Denmark. She studied Classical Archaeology at Hamburg, Tübingen and Oxford before receiving a doctoral degree from the University of Hamburg in 2010 for her dissertation, published as Den Göttern so nah. Architektur und Topographie griechischer Orakelheiligtümer (2010). Her current research interest focuses on gender and space in Classical Antiquity. Fritz Graf is the Distinguished University Professor in Classics at the Ohio State University. He is working on the cults, rituals and mythologies of Greece and Rome, often from an epigraphical perspective. He has published books and papers on the Eleusinian Mysteries, the so-called Orphic gold tablets, Greek myth, Greek and Roman magic, Roman festivals, and the Christianization of ancient religions. His most recent book is Roman Festivals in the Greek East from the Empire to the Middle Byzantine Era (2016). Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek in University Complutense of Madrid. He is the author of Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) and co-editor of the volumes Tracing Orpheus (2011) and Redefining Dionysos (2013), and has written several articles on ancient Greek literature, philosophy and religion, and on the reception of Greek culture in early Christian literature.
Sarah Iles Johnston is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Religion and Professor of Classics and Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University. She is the author or co-author of several books, including Restless Dead (1999), Ancient Greek Divination (2008) and the forthcoming The Story of Myth, and the editor of several volumes, including Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean (2004). She is currently writing a book on ghost stories of the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Sofia Kravaritou is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She holds doctorates in Religious Anthropology of Ancient Greece (epheSorbonne) and Ancient Greek Language and Literature (Lausanne). Her interdisciplinary approach contextualizes Hellenistic local religious attitudes and their political and socio-cultural agents through the study of archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic and literary sources. She has published on the Hellenistic cultic landscape following the synoecism of Demetrias in Thessaly. Her current project examines the reorganization of Thessalian cults and sacred space from the mid-fourth to the second century bce.
Henry Maguire is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University and Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham. He has also taught at Harvard and at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. From 1991 to 1996, he served as Director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington dc. He has authored six books on Byzantine art, and co-authored three more with his wife, Eunice Dauterman Maguire. Przemysław Marciniak is Professor of Byzantine Literature at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. His research interests include Byzantine performative culture, Byzantine humorous literature and the reception of Byzantine culture. He has published on satire and humor in Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies and Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. Adrian Mihai is a research fellow at the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge and Research Associate at the Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes (cnrs, Paris). He studied philosophy and religious studies at École Pratique des Hautes Études and Université de Montréal, and is the author of L’Hadès céleste: Histoire du purgatoire dans l’Antiquité (2015). He is currently preparing the first critical edition of Ralph Cudworth’s 1678 treatise, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, a daring interpretation of ancient philosophy and religion, particularly of atheistic atomism. Heinz-Günther Nesselrath is Full Professor of Classics (Greek Literature) at the Seminar für Klassische Philologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. His research interests span Greek literature of the Roman Imperial times, Classical Greek comedy, and Greek historiography, Classical as well as Christian. Among his major publications are Lukians Parasitendialog. Untersuchungen und Kommentar (1985), Die attische Mittlere Komödie, 1990, Einleitung in die griechische Philologie (editor, 1997), Platon und die Erfindung von Atlantis (2002), Platon, Kritias: Übersetzung und Kommentar (2006), Libanios. Zeuge einer schwindenden Welt, Stuttgart (2012), Iulianus Augustus, Opera (2015) and Herodot, Historien, neu übersetzt, herausgegeben und erläutert (2017).
Ingela Nilsson is Professor of Greek and Byzantine Studies at Uppsala University. Her research interests concern all forms of narration and literary adaptation, and the tension that such procedures create between tradition and innovation. Such perspectives are at the center of her recent monograph Raconter Byzance: la littérature au 12e siècle (2014). She is currently working on questions of narrative poetics and authorship in twelfth-century Byzantium with a special focus on Constantine Manasses. Andrej Petrovic is Professor of Classics and author of Kommentar zu den Simonideischen Versinschriften (2007), co-author (with Ivana Petrovic) of Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion. Vol. I: Early Greek Religion (2016) and articles on Greek epigraphy, religion, magic, cultural and literary history. He is currently working on the second volume of Inner Purity and Pollution, on Hellenistic verse-inscriptions, Greek sacred regulations, and on cults and representations of bound divinities. Ivana Petrovic is Hugh H. Obear Chair of Classics at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Von den Toren des Hades zu den Hallen des Olymp (2007). Her current research project with Andrej Petrovic is a large-scale diachronic study of belief in Greek religion. The first volume of the study explores the Ancient Greek notions of inner purity and pollution (Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion. Vol. I: Early Greek Religion, 2016). The second volume looks into the concepts of inner purity and pollution in later Greek religion. Scott Scullion is a graduate of the University of Toronto and of Harvard and presently Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Worcester College, University of Oxford. His research interests include Greek religion, Greek literature especially tragedy, the history of Greek literature, and textual criticism. With Robert Parker he has recently published in Kernos (2016) a study of the important new religious inscription from Marmarini in Thessaly, and he is co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Greek and Latin Textual Criticism.
Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed is a research fellow in Comparative Literature at Uppsala University, financed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. She received her PhD from the University of Gothenburg in 2012. She has published the monograph Proba the Prophet (2015) as well as a number of articles on ancient and Medieval Latin literature and its modern reception, and co-edited the volume Reading Late Antiquity (2017).
Maria Stamatopoulou is Associate Professor in Classical Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Her main research focuses on Thessaly, its settlement patterns, sanctuaries, mortuary archaeology, material culture. She has co-edited three books and published papers on ancient Demetrias, Pharsalos, funerary architecture in Thessaly, the iconography of Demetrias tombstones, gold lamellae, the history of Thessaly in the late Archaic period, the proposopography and pottery of Pharsalos. Her current projects include the publications of the excavations in the western cemetery of Pharsalos (with S. Katakouta), of A.S. Arvanitopoulos’ excavations in the cemeteries and of the sanctuary of Pasikrata at Demetrias, eastern coastal Thessaly.
Annie Verbanck-Piérard is curator of the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Royal Museum of Mariemont (Belgium). She is the author, co-author and editor of books and exhibition catalogues, including Culture et cité: L’avènement d’Athènes (1995), Au temps d’Hippocrate: Médecine et société en Grèce ancienne (1998), Le vase grec et ses destins (2003), Parfums de l’Antiquité. La rose et l’encens en Méditerranée (2008), L’Antiquité au service de la modernité (2008), La villa romaine de Boscoreale et ses fresques (2013), Trésors hellénistiques de Mariemont (2016). She has also published several articles on ancient Greek religion, Greek vases and iconography, history of collections of antiquities and transmission of Classical culture.
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