Notes on Contributors
Carmen Alarcón Hernández
has a PhD in Ancient History from the Universidad de Sevilla. Her line of research focuses on analysing the origin and development of the cult of the emperors and their domus in Hispania during the Principate. She is particularly interested in the province-driven construction of narratives on the divinity of the domus imperatoria, as well as in historiographical studies and reflections on this religious manifestation. Her publications include Reyes y dioses: La realeza divina en las sociedades antiguas (ARYS 2014); The Present of Antiquity. Reception, Recovery, Reinvention of the Ancient World in Current Popular Culture (Besançon, 2019); and Itálica adrianea: Nuevas perspectivas, nuevos resultados (Roma, 2022).
Juan R. Ballesteros
is a lecturer in Ancient History in the Department of Geography, History and Philosophy at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla. He has studied the use of Greek and Latin sources by late Humanism (16th–17th centuries) in authors such as Iustus Lipsius, Isaac Casaubon or Lorenzo Ramírez de Prado. He has published scientific papers on the reception of Tacitus, Martial, Aelius Aristides or the Historia Augusta. He has recently published a critical edition of Admiranda sive de magnitudine romana libri IV (pr. 1598), a neo-latin description of the Roman Empire by Iustus Lipsius (Bibliotheca Montaniana, Huelva, 2021).
Rocío Gordillo Hervás
who holds a PhD fron the Università degli Studi di Firenze, is a lecturer at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla. Her research focuses on the impact of Roman rule on Greek territories during imperial times, the results of which have been published in journals and books such as La construcción religiosa de la Hélade Imperial: El Panhelenion (Firenze, 2012). She is currently the main researcher, together with Prof. Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo, of the project “Celebrations of the Empire from the provinces” hosted by the Universidad Pablo de Olavide and financed by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Gobierno de España.
Fernando Lozano Gómez
is a tenured professor of Ancient History at the Universidad de Sevilla. His research focuses on the study of Roman religion during the Empire and, specifically, on the imperial cult, as well as Reception Studies. He has authored and edited several monographs including La religión del poder (Oxford, 2002); Un dios entre los hombres (Barcelona, 2010); Ruling the Greek World (Stuttgart, 2015); and Empire and Religion. Religious Change in Greek Cities under Roman Rule (Leiden-Boston, 2017). Lozano has been a visiting researcher at the universities of Cambridge, Pennsylvania, Oxford, Strasbourg and Florence, as well as at the Deutsches Archälogisches Institut in Rome and the British School of Athens.
Rose MacLean
is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also serves as a co-convener for the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Research Focus Group on “Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom.” She is the author of Freed Slaves and Roman Imperial Culture: Social Integration and the Transformation of Values (Cambridge, 2018).
Alberto Marina Castillo
lectures at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla, where he received his doctorate with a thesis on “Infimae personae in Martial’s Epigrams: literary and prosopographical questions.” He has translated Martial’s Epigrams (Madrid, 2019), in collaboration with Rosario Moreno Soldevila. With her and Juan Fernández Valverde he has written the dictionary A Prosopography to Martial’s Epigrams (Berlin and New York, 2019). He has worked as a jazz critic, and directs the publishing house La Piedra Lunar. Today his research focuses on Martial, Pliny’s Natural History and in particular on the dawn of ornithology, the influence of Antiquity on contemporary culture and Samuel Butler’s perception of it.
Rosario Moreno Soldevila
is Professor of Latin Philology at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla. A specialist in Latin literature, she has published extensively on Martial, Pliny the Younger, Prudentius and other late antique poets, Hrotswitha of Ganders- heim, as well as on love motifs in Latin literature. Her publications include Martial, Book IV: A Commentary (Leiden and Boston, 2006), and A Prosopography to Martial’s Epigrams (Berlin and New York, 2019), the latter in collaboration with Alberto Marina Castillo and Juan Fernández Valverde. She is also editor of the Diccionario de Motivos Amatorios en la literatura latina (ss. III a. C.–II d. C.) (Huelva, 2011).
Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo
is Professor of Ancient History at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla, and co-director of a Master’s Degree in Religious Studies. She works on different aspects of religion in the Roman Empire. Her publications include Himnos a Isis (Madrid, 2006), La cristianización de la religiosidad pagana (Madrid, 2008), Ruling the Greek World (Stuttgart, 2015), Empire and Religion: Religious Change in Greek Cities Under Roman Rule (Leiden and Boston, 2017) and Processions and the Construction of Communities in Antiquity (London, 2023).
Frederick G. Naerebout
(1956) studied Ancient History at Leiden University. His PhD Attractive Performances was published in 1997. He has taught Ancient History and Cultural Studies at Leiden and at the Dutch Open University for forty years, and has now retired. His main interests, on which he has published widely, are ancient religion (dance in particular), acculturation in the ancient world, and Reception Studies. He is at present preparing a revision of the textbook which he co-authored with Henk Singor (Antiquity. Greeks and Romans in Context, 2014, first published in Dutch in 1995 and reprinted every year since).
Francisco Pina Polo
is Professor of Ancient History at the Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). His recent publications include The Quaestorship in the Roman Republic (with Alejandro Díaz Fernández, 2019), Foreign clientelae in the Roman Empire: A Reconsideration (edited with Martin Jehne, 2015), and The Consul at Rome: The Civil Functions of the Consuls in the Roman Republic (2011). He is currently Principal Investigator of the Grupo de Investigación Hiberus. He was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) in 2012 and 2014, Visiting Scholar in Merton College (Oxford) in 2017, and was granted the title of Doctor et Professor Honoris Causa at the University Eötvös Lórand of Budapest in 2021.
Louise Revell
is Associate Professor in Roman Studies at the University of Southampton. She works on the impact of Rome rule on the western provinces, addressing questions such as integration, cultural change, and social organisation. This has formed the basis for her monographs, Roman Imperialism and Local Identities (Cambridge, 2009) and Ways of Being Roman: Discourses of Identity in the Roman West (Oxford, 2016). She also works on questions relating to gender, the life-course and the family in the western provinces and has published a number of papers on this topic.
Mirella Romero Recio
is Professor of Ancient History at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She holds a BA in Geography and History from the Universidad Complutense, where she obtained her PhD in 1999. She furthered her studies in different international research centres in England, Italy and France. She is the author of several books, including Ecos de un descubrimiento. Viajeros españoles en Pompeya (2012), Pompeya. Vida, muerte y resurrección de la ciudad sepultada por el Vesubio (2010), and Cultos marítimos y religiosidad de navegantes en el mundo griego antiguo (2000), and has published a number of papers in prestigious scientific journals and publishers.
Cristina Rosillo-López
is Associate Professor in Ancient History, at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla. Her research focuses mainly on politics and political culture of the Late Roman Republic, including corruption, rumours, gossip, public opinion, popular political culture and the census. She is the author of Public Opinion and Politics in the Late Roman Republic (Cambridge, 2017) and Political Conversations in Late Republican Rome (Oxford, 2022). She has also worked on ancient economies, having edited, among others, The Real Estate Market in the Roman World (Abingdon, 2023, with M. García Morcillo).