Notes on Contributors
Domenico Accorinti National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) as Full Professor of Classical and Late Antiquity Philology (2019), teaches Classics at the IIS Galilei-Pacinotti, Pisa, and he is an associate member of the Équipe de recherche sur le christianisme antique et medieval (ERCAM)—EA 4377 Théologie Catholique et Sciences religieuses, Université de Strasbourg. He has published on late Greek poetry, mythology, and the history of religions, including Raffaele Pettazzoni and Herbert Jennings Rose, Correspondence 1927–1958, Brill (2014). He is also the editor of Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis (2016). He currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Wiener humanistische Blätter and on the International Advisory Board of Wiener Studien. Email: domenico.accorinti@gmail.com.
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes is Professor of Greek and Latin at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Polyeideia: The “Iambi” of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition (2002) and of Arion’s Lyre: Archaic Lyric into Helllenistic Poetry (2010), co-author of Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets (2012) and co-editor of Brill’s Companion to Callimachus (2011) and of Euphorion: Oeuvre poétique et autres fragments (2012). He is currently at work on his third monograph, The Fractured Mirror: Callimachus of Cyrene and Apollonius of Rhodes. Email: acosta-hughes.1@osu.edu.
Gianfranco Agosti is Professor of Classical and Late Antique Philology at the Sapienza University of Rome. He published two editions of Nonnus of Panopolis’ poems (Paraphrasis 5, Florence, 2003; Dionysiaca 25–39, Milan 32013); and many articles and book chapters on Late Antique literature, art, epigraphy, religion. He is currently working on a monograph on Late Antique Greek metrical inscriptions, and preparing a new edition and commentary of Agathias’ histories. Email: gianfranco.agosti@uniroma1.it.
Cosetta Cadau (Ph.D., Trinity College Dublin 2014) works on literature of the fourth to the sixth century ad, particularly Greek epic. Her research focuses on the renegotiation of classical tradition in the Late Antique period and within Christian literary contexts, and the evolution of concepts of gender and identity in the Late Antique period. She is the author of the first interpretative monograph on Egyptian epic poet Colluthus (Studies in Colluthus’ Abduction of Helen, Brill 2015). Email: cadauc@tcd.ie.
Katerina Carvounis is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her main research interests focus on later Greek literature (especially poetry) and in early hexameter poetry, and she has published widely in those areas. She has most recently published A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 14 (Oxford 2019) and has also co-edited (with Richard Hunter) the volume Signs of Life? Studies in Later Greek Poetry [Ramus vol. 37.1–2] (2008) and (with Konstantinos Spanoudakis) the volume Late Antique Poetry. An Anthology (in Modern Greek, 2015). Email: kcarvounis@phil.uoa.gr.
Margherita Maria Di Nino studied ‘Classics’ at the University of Bologna, where she graduated summa cum laude with a dissertation on Posidippus of Pella which has been awarded the ‘Amedeo Vaioli’ prize. In 2005 she completed her PhD in ‘Greek and Latin Philology’ at the University of Bologna. Her postgraduate studies also included extensive study at the University of Cambridge, partially supported by the scholarship Marco Polo: giovani ricerctori all’estero. In 2010, she published her dissertation with Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (I fiori campestri di Posidippo, Göttingen). Since completing her PhD, she further pursued her interest in Hellenistic poetry, focusing on the anonymous Epitaph for Bion. Her postdoctoral research has been supported over the years by the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, the LOEB Foundation and the Hardt Foundation. In 2010/2011, with the status of ‘non-residential special scientist’, she joined Professor Maria Ypsilanti in a project on Nonnus Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel. She currently works as a school teacher in Milan. Email: margheritamaria.dinino@googlemail.com.
Gennaro D’Ippolito is a former Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Palermo. In his academic career of almost sixty years he has mainly dealt with Greek epic from Homer to the poets of Late Antiquity—Panteleus, Triphiodorus, Nonnus (on the latter, he is the author of several papers and of Studi Nonniani, a volume published in Palermo in 1964, which places him among the initiators of a historical and favourable evaluation of the Dionysiaca), and Musaeus—, Christian poetry (Gregory of Nazianzus, Synesius), the ancient novel, and Plutarch. Methodologically, he has been one of the early advocates of the use of semiotics and theory of intertextuality in the field of classical studies. According to an integral conception of Hellenism supported by his teacher Bruno Lavagnini, he has also dealt with modern Greek poetry (Cavafy, Kazantzakis, Dalmati, Elytis, Seferis, Vrettakos). Email: gennaro.dippolito@unipa.it.
Nestan Egetashvili is Associate Professor at the Department of Georgian and Foreign Languages in Georgian State Teaching University of Physical Education and Sport, Tbilisi. She was awarded PhD degree in Classical Philology in Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Institute of Classical, Byzantine and New Greek Studies (2011). Doctoral Thesis: Mytho-Poetic Models and Iconic Symbols in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis (2013). She has published a monograph and some articles on Nonnus’ Dionysiaca with Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University’s Publishing Program “Logos”. Email: nestanege@yahoo.com.
Roberta Franchi is a Research Fellow of Ancient Christian Literature at the University of Florence. Her main areas of interest are classical studies, Christian and Byzantine theology, and gender studies. She is also interested in the religious and literary aspects of Late Antiquity. She has published a critical edition with introduction and commentary of the sixth chapter of the Paraphrase of Nonnus of Panopolis (Bologna, 2013), the first Italian translation with a rich commentary of the dialogue On Free Will by Methodius of Olympus (Milano, 2015) and a monograph in three volumes on motherhood in the ancient world (Dalla Grande Madre alla Madre. La maternità nel mondo classico e cristiano: miti e modelli, 3 vols, Alessandria, 2018–2019). She is a member of the European Society of Women in Theological Research. Email: roberta.franchi@unifi.it
Laura Franco holds a PhD in Byzantine Literature and Palaeography from Royal Holloway University of London. Besides the poetry of Nonnus of Panopolis her research interests focus on Greek Palaeography, as well as Late-Antique and Byzantine hagiography. She has published several articles on the hagiographical works included in the Menologium by Symeon Metaphrastes, the Italian edition of the Lives of five female Byzantine saints (Cinque sante bizantine. Storie di travestite, cortigiane, imperatrici, Milan 2017) and the Italian translation of the Life of the Stylite saint Daniel (in print, July 2020). Email: laura.franco@libero.it.
Camille Geisz teaches Greek and Latin language and literature at Haberdashers’ Monmouth School for Girls, Wales, UK. She holds a PhD from the University of Oxford (2013) and a Masters from the Université de Paris iv-Sorbonne (2009). She is the author of several papers on the Dionysiaca and her doctoral thesis is available as A Study of the Narrator in Nonnus of Panopolis’ Dionysiaca: Storytelling in Late Antique Epic (Leiden, 2017). Email: geisz.camille@habsmonmouth.org.
Fotini Hadjittofi is Senior Research Fellow funded by FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) at Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. She has written on Nonnus of Panopolis, Quintus of Smyrna, Hellenistic poetry, and Greek declamation. She is currently the PI of a project on Achilles in Late Antiquity, also funded by FCT. Email: f.hadjittofi@campus.ul.pt.
David Hernández de la Fuente is PhD in Classical Studies and Social History. His main research lines are Literature and Society in Late Antiquity (esp. Nonnus and Late Antique Religious Change), Greek Religion and Mythology (especially Oracles, Dionysus and Pythagoreanism), and History of Platonism (esp. Laws and Neoplatonism). Currently he is Professor of Greek Philology at the Department of Classics of Complutense University of Madrid. He has taught at Carlos iii University of Madrid, Universität Potsdam and UNED and he has been visiting scholar or lecturer at Columbia University, Università di Firenze, CNRS (Paris), Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin), Université Paris-x Nanterre and Freie Universität Berlin, among other institutions. Email: dahdelafuente@filol.ucm.es.
Nicole Kröll is a postdoc researcher at the Institute of Classical Philology, Medieval and Neo-Latin Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria). In her current research project “Poetry—Character—Design. Narrative Strategies in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis”, funded by the Hertha Firnberg Programme of the Austrian Science Fund (project number: T-875), she focuses on the Nonnian oeuvre and its relations to Homer as well as on Late Antique Greek poetry in general. She is the author of a monograph on Nonnus’ Dionysiaca (“Die Jugend des Dionysos. Die Ampelos-Episode in den Dionysiaka des Nonnos von Panopolis”, Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter 2016) as well as of various papers on different aspects of Nonnian poetry. Email: nicole.kroell@univie.ac.at.
Anna Lefteratou is DFG Research Fellow at Universität Heidelber researching Eudocia’s and Nonnus’ epic poetry. She studied in Athens, Paris, and Oxford. Her research interests cover prose and poetry of the imperial era with a special focus on the Greek Novel and the Second Sophistic and Late Antique Christian poetry. She is the author of Mythological Narratives: the Bold and Faithful Heroines of the Greek Novels, and the co-editor of The Genres of Late Antique Christian Poetry: Between Modulations and Transpositions. Currently she is preparing a monograph on the Homeric Centos in Late Antiquity. Email: anna.lefteratou@googlemail.com.
Jane Lucy Lightfoot is Professor of Greek Literature and Charlton Fellow and Tutor in Classical Languages and Literature in New College, Oxford. She has published editions and commentaries with Oxford University Press on Parthenius of Nicaea (1999), Lucian’s On the Syrian Goddess (2003), the Sibylline Oracles (2007), Dionysius the Peregete’s Description of the Known World (2014), and pseudo-Manetho’s Apotelesmatica (2020), and a Loeb selection of Hellenistic poets (2008). Her articles, reviews, and chapters follow her wide interests across the prose and poetry of the Hellenistic period and later antiquity. Email: jane.lightfoot@new.ox.ac.uk.
Enrico Magnelli (Ph.D. 2000), is Associate Professor of Greek literature at the University of Florence. He has written extensively on Hellenistic and Late Greek poetry, Attic comedy, Greek metre, Jewish Hellenistic literature, and ‘classicizing’ Byzantine poetry, and published the monograph Studi su Euforione (Rome 2002) and the edition with commentary of Alexandri Aetoli testimonia et fragmenta (Florence 1999). He is preparing a commented edition of Pseudo-Lucian’s Ocypus; a critical edition of Epigrammata Graeca de poetis of the Imperial and Late Greek period (in collaboration with Gianfranco Agosti); and a critical edition, with full commentary, of the fragments of Euphorion. Email: enrico.magnelli@unifi.it.
Laura Miguélez-Cavero studied in her first monograph Greek Poems in Context the literary world in which Nonnus was born. After this she explored The Sack of Troy by Triphiodorus. In between she has learned about the Dionysiaca and published her findings in a number of articles and in the proceedings of the Nonnus in Context series. Email: lmigcav@gmail.com.
Marta Otlewska-Jung is an independent scholar based in Berlin. She has done research on Nonnus’ Dionysica at the University of Wroclaw, at the University of Crete and at the Free University of Berlin. Her main field of interest is Late Antiquity, ancient Greek and Latin epic, Ancient Greek lyric and drama and the literary and visual reception of the classical thought in the (post)modern times. Her publications contain contributions to the Orphic poetry, the representations of afterlife and the concept of harmony in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca. In her talks and presentations she has also focused on Nonnus’ second epic, the Parapharase of the Gospel of John, and the relationship both poems. Email: marta.otlewska@gmail.com.
Ewa Osek is Associate Professor at the John Paul ii Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. Her research interests focus on ancient religions, mystery cults, and so-called Orphism in the late ancient Greek literature, including Neoplatonic writings. In 2018 she published the first Polish translation of Porphyry’s De abstinentia. Email: ewaosek@kul.edu.pl.
Sophia Papaioannou is Professor of Latin at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her research interests include Latin Epic, Augustan Literature, Roman Comedy, Ancient performance, and the interaction between Greek and Latin literature and culture in the Late Antiquity, and she has published, edited and co-edited several books on the above topics. She is currently working on a book and a series of articles on Nonnus’ response to the Latin tradition in the Dionysiaca. Email: spapaioan@phil.uoa.gr.
Michael Paschalis is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Crete. He has published 135 articles and reviews, and written or (co-)edited 14 books, on Hellenistic, Roman and Imperial literature, the poetry of Late Antiquity (Nonnus, Colluthus, Prudentius), the reception of the Classics and Modern Greek literature. He is the author of Virgil’s Aeneid: Semantic Relations and Proper Names (Oxford 1997) and the editor of three volumes of Rethymnon Classical Studies (2002–2007: Horace and Greek Lyric Poetry; Roman and Greek Imperial Epic; Pastoral Palimpsests: Essays in the Reception of Theocritus and Virgil). He has co-edited seven volumes of Ancient Narrative Supplements (2002–2019: Space in the Ancient Novel; Metaphor and the Ancient Novel; The Greek and the Roman Novel: Parallel Readings; Readers and Writers in the Ancient Novel; The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel; Holy Men and Charlatans in the Ancient Novel; Slaves and Masters in the Ancient Novel) and The Reception of Antiquity in the Byzantine and Modern Greek Novel (2005). His has written two books on Andreas Kalvos (2013) and Nikos Kazantzakis (2015) and has one forthcoming in 2020 on Cretan Renaissance literature and the local Academies. Email: michael.paschalis@gmail.com.
A. Sophie Schoess is Lecturer in Greek at the School of Classics, University of St Andrews. Her research interests include the relationship between image and text in the classical world, and the reception of classical myth from Late Antiquity through Modernity. Her doctoral thesis (University of Oxford, 2018) traced the reception of Ariadne’s myth in literature and the visual arts from antiquity through the Renaissance. Her current research focuses on Christian interpretations and appropriations of classical myth in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Email: ass8@st-andrews.ac.uk.
Fabian Sieber finished his PhD at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). Currently he is a research associate at the Theologische Hochschule Fulda.
Konstantinos Spanoudakis is Professor of Greek at the University of Crete. His research interests focus on Hellenistic Poetry, Greek Imperial Poetry, Poetry of the Late Antiquity, Greek Prose Style, Greek Scholarship and Early Christian Literature. He has edited or authored five books and more than fifty articles and reviews. In 2015 he was awarded the Academy of Athens Award in Classical Studies for his book Nonnus of Panopolis, Paraphrasis of the Gospel of John xi, Oxford 2014. Since 2016 he serves as Vice Rector of the University of Crete. Email: spanoudakis@uoc.gr.
Berenice Verhelst (Phd 2014) is a senior postdoctoral research fellow of the FWO (Research Foundation Flanders) at Ghent University, Belgium. Her latest research projects, Reinventing Epic Poetry. Creativity and Tradition in Late Antique Epyllia and A Battle between Arts. Narrativity, Literarity and the Paradox of Representation in Late Antique Literary Responses to Figurative Art, reflect her broader research interest in Late Antique poetry (Greek and Latin, long and short(er), Christian and pagan), the epic tradition at large, and the interrelations between literature and the visual arts. Her approach draws on narratological theory and genre studies. Her doctoral research focused on the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis and in particular his use of direct speech, influenced by contemporary rhetorical practices. Its results were published as a monograph with Brill (Direct Speech in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca, 2016). This too is still an important line in her research. In 2018 she organized the fourth international Nonnus in Context conference. Email: berenice.verhelst@ugent.be.
Mary Whitby studied classics at St Anne’s College, Oxford and did her doctorate in the University of Edinburgh. She has taught in St Andrews, Aberdeen and London, but in recent years has lived and worked in Oxford. She has been General Editor of Translated Texts for Historians for more than twenty years. Her research interests lie in the field of Late-Antique Greek poetry, in particular George of Pisidia. Email: mary.whitby@classics.ox.ac.uk.
Maria Ypsilanti studied Greek Philology at the University of Athens and did her MA and her PhD at the University of London (King’s College and University College respectively). From 2004 onward she teaches Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Cyprus. Her publications include the monographs The Epigrams of Crinagoras of Mytilene (Oxford University Press 2018) and Τριφιοδώρου Ἰλίου Ἅλωσις (Athens, Stigmi, 2019), the book Nonnus’ Paraphrase between Poetry, Rhetoric and Theology (which she co-authors with Laura Franco, and which includes contributions by Filip Doroszewski and Claudia Greco: Leiden, Brill 2020) and many articles on Hellenistic and later Greek poetry. She currently coordinates two research programs, one on Greek Bible Epic and one on the Eighth book of the Greek Anthology. Email: mypsilanti@ucy.ac.cy.