Notes on Contributors
Wolfgang Asholt
is Honorary Professor at the Institute of Romance Studies at Humboldt Universität, Berlin. He has been Visiting Professor at French Universities (among others, Paris III and Paris IV) and Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies. His main research interests lie in the history of modern and contemporary French literature, avant-garde studies, twentieth- and twenty-first-century European literature and culture, history of philology, and theory of literature as Lebenswissenschaft. He has been editor of the French-German journal Lendemains (2000–2012), and is on the Editorial Boards of a number of academic journals (including Revue des Sciences Humaines, Journal of Avant-Garde Studies, and Romantisme). He is a Member of the Council of the CCIC de Pontigny-Cerisy, where he has organized a number of colloquia (including, more recently, colloquia on Assia Djebar, Franz Kafka, and Alexander Kluge). He is the author and editor of numerous books on the European avant-garde and modernism, among other areas. His recent books include Franz Kafka (with Jean-Pierre Morel; Paris: Cahier d’Herne, 2014); Avant-Garde und Modernismus: Dezentrierung, Subversion und Transformation im literarisch-künstlerischen Feld (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014); Europe en movement: À la croisée des cultures, 2 vols. (co-editor; Paris: Hermann, 2018); Alexander Kluge: Cartographie d’une œuvre plurielle (co-editor; Paris: Hermann, 2022).
Silvio Bär
is Professor of Classics at the University of Oslo. He has studied Classics, Musicology, and English philology in Zurich and Oxford. His research areas and interests include ancient Greek hexameter poetry (especially of the imperial period), tragedy, lyric poetry, the novel, mythology and mythography, rhetoric, the Second Sophistic, translation studies, intertextuality, diachronic narratology, and the reception of antiquity in English literature and popular culture. He has published widely on Quintus of Smyrna’s epic Posthomerica, on the genre of the epyllion, and on the mythical character of Herakles in ancient Greek epic and beyond. His books include Quintus Smyrnaeus Posthomerica 1: Die Wiedergeburt des Epos aus dem Geiste der Amazonomachie; mit einem Kommentar zu den Versen 1–219 (2009); Herakles im griechischen Epos: Studien zu Narrativität und Poetizität eines Helden (2018); Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin epyllion and Its Reception (co-editor; 2012); Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica: Writing Homer under Rome (co-editor; 2022). Currently, he is writing a commentary on Book 5 of Homer’s Odyssey (the Kalypso episode), contracted with Liverpool University Press for the Aris and Phillips Classical Texts series.
Adriana Brook
obtained her PhD in Classics from the University of Toronto in 2014, where she teaches as a teaching-stream Assistant Professor. She is the author of Tragic Rites: Narrative and Ritual in Sophoclean Tragedy (2018). Her main research interests focus on ritual elements in ancient Greek drama, including close readings of Sophocles with an emphasis on narrative, and on the reception of ancient Greek tragedy, especially Aeschylus, in late republican and early imperial Rome.
Ada Cohen
is Professor of Art History and Israel Evans Professor in Oratory and Belles Lettres at Dartmouth College. Her research focuses on the era of Alexander the Great and the impact of Alexander’s imagery. She has also published on topics in Near Eastern and prehistoric art; sexuality and the construction of pictorial identity; travel and landscape; as well as the depiction of childhood and the family in ancient art. Her publications include the books The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat (1997); Art in the Era of Alexander the Great: Paradigms of Manhood and Their Cultural Traditions (2010); Inside an Ancient Assyrian Palace: Looking at Austen Henry Layard’s Reconstruction (with Steven Kangas; 2017); Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy (co-editor, 2007); Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II: A Cultural Biography (co-editor, 2010). Her current book project is titled The Judgment of Female Beauty in Ancient Greek Art.
Alexander Dale
is Senior Lecturer of Classics at Concordia University. He obtained his DPhil from Oxford (2009) with a dissertation on the lyric fragments of Callimachus (including a new text based on a fresh examination of the papyri, prolegomena, and commentary). His research interests and publications focus on ancient Greek poetry; Greek literary papyrology; meter; the reception of ancient Greek poetry in the Byzantine period; the Anatolian branch of Indo-European, particularly Luwian, Lycian, and Lydian. His current research centers on the intersection between Greek and Anatolian culture in the archaic through Hellenistic periods.
Malcolm Davies
is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on epic poetry, melic poetry, tragedy, and the reception of ancient Greek drama in nineteenth- and twentieth-century opera. A considerable amount of his scholarship is devoted to textual criticism and critical editing of ancient Greek literature. His numerous books include Greek Insects (co-authored; 1986); Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (1988); Poetarum Melicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (1991); Sophocles: Trachiniae (edited with Introduction and Commentary, 1991); Stesichorus: The Poems (edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary by M. Davies and P. J. Finglass, 2014); The Theban Epics (2015); The Aethiopis: Neo-Neoanalysis Reanalyzed (2016); The Cypria (2019); Lesser and Anonymous Fragments of Greek Lyric Poetry: A Commentary (2021).
James Faubion
is the Radoslav Tsanoff Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at Rice University. His research interests focus on the anthropology of temporal consciousness; the anthropology of self-formation and ethics; anthropological research design; the work of Michel Foucault; religious ideation and practice; the anthropology of literature; and ancient Greece and modern Europe. His numerous publications include the books Foucault Now: Current Perspectives in Foucault Studies (2014); An Anthropology of Ethics (co-editor; 2011); Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology’s Method in a Time of Transition (2011); Shadows and Lights of Waco: Millennialism Today (2001); Essential Works of Michel Foucault. Volume 3: Power (editor; 2000); Essential Works of Michel Foucault. Volume 2: Aesthetics, Method, Epistemology (editor; 1998); Rethinking the Subject: An Anthology of European Social Thought (1995).
Burkhard Fehr
is Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at the University of Hamburg. His books include Orientalische und griechische Gelage (1971); Bewegungsweisen und Verhaltensideale: Physiognomische Deutungsmöglichkeiten der Bewegungsdarstellung an griechischen Statuen des 5. und 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (1979); Die Tyrannentöter, oder, Kann man der Demokratie ein Denkmal setzen? (1984), and Becoming Good Democrats and Wives: Civic Education and Female Socialization on the Parthenon Frieze (2011). He has published extensively on ancient Greek and Roman art and architecture and their wider sociopolitical and ideological contexts, as well as on the cultural interactions between ancient Greece and the East. He has lectured at many universities in Germany, Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, and the USA. Since 1979 he is one of the editors of the journal HEPHAISTOS (Kritische Zeitschrift zur Theorie und Praxis der Archäologie und angrenzender Wissenschaften). Currently he is working on a comparative study on the different functions and valuations of the reclining banquet and intoxication by wine or drugs in ancient Greece, the Near East, and the Eurasian steppe cultures.
Kathryn Gutzwiller
is Professor Emerita of Classics at the University of Cincinnati. She has written extensively on Hellenistic poetry, with a focus on epigrams and visual depictions of texts, and her research interests include ancient Greek and Latin poetry and cultures and literary theory. She has been awarded numerous grants, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, a Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and a Loeb Classical Foundation Grant. She has been President of the American Philological Association. Her books include Studies in the Hellenistic Epyllion (1981); Theocritus’ Pastoral Analogies: The Formation of a Genre (1991); Poetic Garlands: Hellenistic Epigrams in Context (1998); The New Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book (2005); and A Guide to Hellenistic Literature (2007). She also published “New Menander Mosaics from Antioch”, in collaboration with Ö. Çelik, in American Journal of Archaeology 116.4 (2012) 573–623.
Ippokratis Kantzios
is the Peter and Sophia Kourmolis Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at the University of South Florida and Chair of the Department of World Languages. In addition to his monograph The Trajectory of Archaic Greek Trimeters (Brill 2005), he has published on archaic and Hellenistic poetry, and ancient Greek tragedy and comedy. In the last years, he has been concentrating on the archaic poet Alcaeus, with occasional digressions into the reception of the classical tradition.
David Konstan
is Professor of Classics at New York University (NYU). Before joining NYU he was John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics at Brown University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and has been President of the American Philological Association. His research focuses on ancient Greek and Latin literature, especially comedy and the novel, and classical philosophy. In recent years, he has investigated the emotions and value concepts of classical Greece and Rome. His many books include Some Aspects of Epicurean Psychology (1973); Roman Comedy (1983); Greek Comedy and Ideology (1995); Friendship in the Classical World (1997); The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature (2001); Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea (2010); Beauty: The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea (2014); In the Orbit of Love: Affection in Ancient Greece and Rome (2018); The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity (2022).
Felix Meister
teaches at the University of Cologne. He obtained his DPhil from Oxford University (2015). His research interests center on ancient Greek lyric, textual criticism, meter, Greek papyrology and palaeography, ancient Greek religion, and Plutarch. His publications include the book Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (Oxford University Press 2019). His current book project is an edition, with commentary, of Plutarch’s De superstitione.
Michael Paschalis
is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Crete. His research interests include Hellenistic, Late Republican, Augustan and Early Imperial literature and culture; poetry of Late Antiquity; Senecan drama; ancient novel; reception of the Classics in Italian, French, Greek and English literature. He is the author and (co-)editor of sixteen books. His publications include the books Virgil’s Aeneid: Semantic Relations and Proper Names (1997), Horace and Greek Lyric Poetry (editor); Roman and Greek Imperial Epic (editor); Pastoral Palimpsests: Essays in the Reception of Theocritus and Virgil (editor); Space in the Ancient Novel (co-editor); Metaphor and the Ancient Novel (co-editor); The Greek and the Roman Novel: Parallel Readings (co-editor); Readers and Writers in the Ancient Novel (co-editor); The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel (co-editor); Holy Men and Charlatans in the Ancient Novel (co-editor); Slaves and Masters in the Ancient Novel (co-editor).
Charles Brian Rose
is the James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania in the Classical Studies Department and Peter C. Ferry Curator-in-Charge of the Mediterranean Section of the Penn Museum. He was the Penn Museum’s Deputy Director from 2008–2011. He currently serves as director for the Gordion excavations, and was Head of Post-Bronze Age excavations at Troy from 1988–2012. He was President of the Archaeological Institute of America, and is currently President of the American Research Institute in Turkey. He also serves as Trustee of the American Academy in Rome. His numerous publications include the books Dynastic Commemoration and Imperial Portraiture in the Julio-Claudian Period (1997); The New Chronology of Iron Age Gordion (2011); The Archaeology of Phrygian Gordion (2012); The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Troy (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Elaine Scarry
is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. She is Senior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University (1994–ongoing), a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992–present), and a Member of the American Philosophical Society. She is recipient of the Levenson Award, the Truman Capote Award, the Mendelsohn Award, and the Morton Dawen Zabel Award, as well as of numerous international research fellowships. Among other honorary degrees, she has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Her research interests include Theory of Representation, the Language of Physical Pain, and Structure of Verbal and Material Making in Art, Science and the Law. She has given distinguished Lecture Series at Yale, Cambridge, and other universities, and has lectured in Europe and in the US at Philosophy Departments, Law Schools, English and American Literature Departments, Art Museums and Architecture Centers, Humanities Centers, and Medical Schools. Her books include The Body in Pain (Oxford University Press 1985), Resisting Representation (Oxford University Press 1994), Dreaming by the Book (Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1999), On Beauty, and Being Just (Princeton University Press 1999), Rule of Law, Misrule of Men (MIT Press 2010), Thinking in an Emergency (W. W. Norton 2011), Thermonuclear Monarchy (W. W. Norton 2014), Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2016), and co-editor (with Daniel Schacter) of Memory, Brain, and Belief (Harvard University Press 2000).
Erasmia-Louiza Stavropoulou
is Professor Emerita of Greek Literature at the University of Athens. Her research interests center on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greek poetry, prose, and drama; literary theory; and comparative poetics. She has been the chair of the Department of Greek Literature at the University of Athens and she currently is the Vice President of the Hellenic Authors’ Society, and a member of the Greek Comparative Literature Association. She is the author and editor of eleven books, including more recently volumes on Konstantinos Theotokis’ Pride and Money (2019) and on the 1821 Greek Revolution (2022).
Thea S. Thorsen
is Professor of Classical Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She is the author of numerous publications on ancient Greek and Roman literature and their receptions, including the monograph Ovid’s Early Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2014). She is the editor of several volumes, including The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy (2013), Roman Receptions of Sappho (Oxford University Press, 2019; co-edited with Stephen Harrison), and Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (de Gruyter, 2021; co-edited with Iris Brecke and Stephen Harrison).
William Tilleczek
is a political theorist whose research interests span politics and ethics, social inequality, markets and work, and the history of political thought. He completed his PhD at Harvard University (Department of Government) in 2022, where he has served as a Teaching Assistant. He is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University and Université de Montreal. His PhD dissertation, Powers of Practice: Michel Foucault and the Politics of Asceticism, which offers a novel reading of Foucault and reconstructs a political theory of askēsis from his work, has been awarded the Leo Strauss Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of political philosophy of the American Political Science Association. He has written a number of articles on asceticism and practices of the self.