Notes on Contributors
Gaetano Arena
PhD, Rome, 1997, is Associate Professor of Roman History at Catania University (Italy), Department of Educational Sciences. His research covers social, economic and cultural history in the Mediterranean world and the Near East, especially Asia Minor, with a special emphasis on the history of medicine. He is the author of Città di Panfilia e Pisidia sotto il dominio romano: Continuità strutturali e cambiamenti funzionali (Catania, 2005), Inter eximia naturae dona: Il silfio cirenaico fra Ellenismo e Tarda Antichità (Rome, 2008), Il farmaco e l’unguento: La produzione di Priene fra Ellenismo e Impero (Rome, 2013), Marcello di Side: Gli imperatori adottivi e il potere della medicina (Rome, 2016; with Margherita Cassia), Comunità di villaggio nell’Anatolia romana: Il dossier epigrafico degli Xenoi Tekmoreioi (Rome, 2017).
Aude Busine
is Professor of Ancient History at the Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). She is interested in the cultural and religious history of the late antique Roman East and is currently working on the links between hagiography and cult. She has published Les Sept Sages de la Grèce antique (Paris, 2002), Paroles d’Apollon: Pratiques et traditions oraculaires dans l’Antiquité tardive (Leiden, 2005) and Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City (Leiden, 2015).
Margherita Cassia
PhD, Rome, 1997, is Associate Professor of Roman History at Catania University (Italy), Department of Humanities. Her interests cover the social and intellectual history of the eastern Roman Empire, in geographical contexts that range from Malta and Sicily to Asia Minor. She is the author of Cappadocia romana: Strutture urbane e strutture agrarie alla periferia dell’Impero (Catania, 2004), La piaga e la cura: Poveri e ammalati, medici e monaci nell’Anatolia rurale tardoantica (Rome, 2009), Andromaco di Creta: Medicina e potere nella Roma neroniana (Rome, 2012), Fra biografia e cronografia: Storici cappadoci nell’età dei Costantinidi (Rome, 2014), Marcello di Side: Gli imperatori adottivi e il potere della medicina (Rome, 2016; with Gaetano Arena).
Turhan Kaçar
PhD in Ancient History, Swansea University, 2000, Associate Professor at Balikesir University 2004, Professor at Pamukkale University Denizli 2009, has been Professor of Ancient History at Istanbul Medeniyet University (Turkey) since 2015 and a member of the Turkish Institute of Archaeology. His research focuses on late antiquity and early Christianity. He is the author of Geç Antikçağ’da Hıristiyanlık/Christianity in Late Antiquity (Istanbul, 2009) and his translations into Turkish include Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity (Istanbul, 2000 and 2016), and Stephen Mitchell, A History of the Later Roman Empire (Ankara, 2016). He has edited Byzantion’dan Constantinopolis’e İstanbul Kuşatmaları/From Byzantium to Constantinople, Sieges of Istanbul (Istanbul, 2017; with Murat Arslan), and Geç Antik Çağ’da Lykos Vadisi ve Çevresi/The Lykos Valley and Neighbourhood in Late Antiquity (Istanbul, 2018; with Celal Şimşek).
Stephen Mitchell
is a Fellow of the British Academy, Emeritus Professor of Hellenistic Culture at the University of Exeter (UK) and Chairman of the British Institute at Ankara. He holds an honorary doctorate in Theology at the Humboldt University, Berlin, and has been a research associate of successive Topoi groups investigating the spread of early Christianity in Asia Minor, Greece and the Balkans. He is the author of Anatolia: Land, Men, and Gods in Asia Minor (2 vols.; Oxford, 1993), A History of the Later Roman Empire, AD 285–641 (2nd ed., Chichester, 2015), and The Greek and Latin Inscriptions of Ankara (Ancyra) (2 vols.; Munich, 2012 and 2019).
Philipp Pilhofer
Dr. theol., Berlin, 2017, is a research assistant at the chair of Ancient Christianity at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany), having been a stipendiary doctoral fellow with the Excellence Cluster 264 Topoi from 2013 to 2016 and a visiting scholar of the Hardt Foundation, Vandœuvres/Geneva, in 2016. He is the author of Das frühe Christentum im kilikisch-isaurischen Bergland: Die Christen der Kalykadnos-Region in den ersten fünf Jahrhunderten (Berlin, 2018). His critical edition of the Greek text of the martyrdom of Konon from Bidana (Isauria) with a German translation and commentary will appear shortly.
Anna M. Sitz
completed her PhD in 2017 at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) and is a research associate at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) in research group SFB 933, which focuses on the material aspects of texts in historical societies. Her publications explore new approaches to epigraphic material from Cappadocia, Syria and Aphrodisias, and she currently leads a sub-project at the Labraunda Excavation (Turkey) focused on the Christianization of the ancient sanctuary.
Daniela Summa
is a senior researcher attached to the project Inscriptiones Graecae at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Germany). She has published the corpus of inscriptions of Eastern Locris (IG IX 1², 5, Berlin, 2011). Currently, she is responsible for editing the corpus of inscriptions from Cyprus. Her research draws on Greek epigraphy as a historical and literary source, focusing on the editing of documents, as well as the history of classical scholarship.
Peter Talloen
PhD, Leuven, 2003 (Belgium), has been a participant in the archaeological excavations at Sagalassus (south-west Turkey) since 1995. His doctoral research focused on religious practice in the ancient region of Pisidia from the Hellenistic to the early Byzantine period. These interests were developed further during postdoctoral fellowships in Ankara (2011–2012) and Istanbul (2012–2013), with special emphasis on the Christianization of space and material culture in Pisidia. Since 2019 he is Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta (Turkey). He is the author of Cult in Pisidia: Religious Practice in Southwestern Asia Minor from Alexander the Great to the Rise of Christianity (Turnhout, 2015).
Christiane Zimmermann
Dr. phil. in Classics, Munich, 1991, Dr. theol. habil., Berlin, 2006, is Professor of the History, Theology and Literature of the New Testament at the University of Kiel (Germany). She works on New Testament theology and the history of early Christianity. Her publications include Die Namen des Vaters: Studien zu ausgewählten neutestamentlichen Gottesbezeichnungen vor ihrem jüdischen und paganen Sprachhorizont (Leiden, 2007), Gott und seine Söhne: Das Gottesbild des Galaterbriefs (Neukirchen-Vluyn, 2013). Together with Cilliers Breytenbach she is the author of Early Christianity in Lycaonia and Adjacent Areas: From Paul to Amphilochius of Iconium (Leiden, 2018).