Notes on Contributors
Anastasia Bakogianni is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at Massey University (New Zealand). Her research and publications focus on the reception of Greek tragedy on stage and screen. She is author of Electra Ancient & Modern: Aspects of the Tragic Heroine’s Reception (2011), editor of Dialogues with the Past: Classical Reception Theory and Practice (2013) and co-editor of War as Spectacle: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict (2015) and Locating Classical Receptions on Screen: Masks, Echoes, Shadows (2018) and Classical Reception: New Challenges in a Changing World (2024).
Jakub Čechvala is a researcher at the Centre for Classical Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic). He also holds the position of managing editor of an international journal of Classics and its reception, Eirene: Studia Grace at Latina. In his research he focuses on Greek tragic theatre and its reception in modern era, as well as literary theory and its reception in Classics. Recently he has taken part in a project Cold War Classics, mapping ideological changes in the scholarly discourse of classical studies during Czechoslovak communist regime.
Freddy Decreus is a Professor Emeritus at Ghent University (Belgium) and, by training, a classical philologist. Decreus started to work at Ghent University in 1981, where he was responsible for courses in Latin Literature, Literary Theory, Mythology, Comparative Literature and Theatre History. For many years the theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos has held a special interest for him, resulting in two monographs on The Ritual Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos (Agra 2016 and Routledge 2019). A number of his recent publications address the political theatre of Milo Rau (NTGent).
Maddalena Giovannelli teaches History of Theatre and Theatre Communication at Università della Svizzera Italiana (Italy). She was a visiting professor at the University of Milan, and the Principal Investigator of the FIR research project ‘Lexicon of Greek Comedy’ (2014–2017). Her fields of interest comprise drama translation, classical theatre with a focus on the Aristophanic comedy, the reception of classical drama in the contemporary theatre, dance and education. Her major works comprise Aristofane nostro contemporaneo (2018) and Il pubblico in danza. Comunità, memorie, dispositivi with Lorenzo Conti and Francesca Serrazanetti (2019). Giovannelli also founded a scholarly journal Stratagemmi_prospettive teatrali and the association ‘Prospettive Teatrali’ aimed at audience education. As a theatre critic she writes regularly for Hystrio, Doppiozero, Il Sole 24 ore.
Edith Hall FBA is Professor of Classics at Durham University (UK). She has published more than 35 books on ancient Greek and Roman culture and their reception, including Greek Tragedy: Suffering under the SUN (OUP 2010) and Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris (OUP 2013). She frequently broadcasts on BBC Radio and acts as Consultant with professional theatre companies including the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre in London. She is the recipient of honorary doctorates from the Universities of Athens and Durham, the Erasmus Medal of the European Academy, a Goodwin Award from the American SCS, and honorary citizenship of Palermo.
George W.M. Harrison has a joint appointment in Greek and Roman Studies and the Institute for Technology, Society and Environmental Studies at Carleton University (Canada). He has edited or co-edited Seneca in Performance (2000), Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre (2013), Brill’s Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015), Satyr Drama: Tragedy at Play (2005) and Satyr Drama: A Genre from its Remnants (2021), and has contributed to Brill’s Companion to Seneca and Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus. He has been involved in performances of Seneca’s Trojan Women, Euripides’ Cyclops and a play on Peleus in collaboration with the Beijing Opera.
Athena Kavoulaki is Associate Professor in the Department of Philology of the University of Crete, Division of Classical Studies (Greece). Her main research interests focus on Greek drama, Greek epic and lyric poetry, myth and ritual, and more generally on religion and poetics in Antiquity. She is the editor of
Eliška Kubartová (née Poláčková) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at Palacký University in Olomouc (Czech Republic). A graduate in Classics, Czech and English Philology, she earned her doctorate in Theatre with a dissertation entitled Verbum caro factum est: Performative Aspects of High Medieval Bohemian Literature (published in 2019). Her research interests include classical, especially Roman theatre and drama, medieval theatre and drama, and drama translation. She co-translated both Plautus’ Curculio and Steele’s Conscientious Lovers, and dramaturged their student productions at Masaryk University in Brno.
Hallie Marshall is an Associate Professor of Theatre Studies in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia (Canada). Her research centres on Theatre History, particularly ancient Greek theatre and its reception in later periods. She is co-editor of Greek Drama V: Studies in the Theatre of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BCE (Bloomsbury 2020). With the UK-based company Barefaced Greek, and undergraduate students from UBC, she has made two short films of choral odes from ancient Greek tragedies which are available on YouTube: ‘Ode to Man’ from Sophocles’ Antigone (2019) and ‘The Dawn Chorus’ from Euripides’ Phaethon (2023).
C.W. Marshall is Professor of Greek at the University of British Columbia (Canada). He is the author of The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy (CUP 2006), books on Euripides’ Helen (CUP 2014), Aeschylus’ Libation Bearers (Bloomsbury 2017), and Aristophanes’ Frogs (Bloomsbury 2020), and many articles on ancient theatre and classical reception. In 2021 He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His work has been generously supported for many years by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Dana L. Munteanu is an Associate Professor of Classics at the Ohio State University (USA) who focuses her research on Aristotle, Greek drama, reception of Classics, and the humanities in twenty-first century. Among her significant publications are Tragic Pathos: Pity and Fear in Greek Philosophy and Tragedy (Cambridge 2012), as well as co-edited volumes with Zara Torlone and Dorota Dutsch, A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe (Blackwell 2017) and, respectively, with Pierre Destrée and Malcolm Heath, The Poetics in Its Aristotelian Context (Routledge 2020).
Romain Piana is a Professor of Theatre Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle University. His research focuses on the classical reception of ancient Greek tragedy and comedy, as well as the history of French theatre. He co-published, with Aurélien Pulice, an essay on Euripides’ Bacchae, from text to performance (Les Bacchantes, Poitiers 2015). He also serves as the editorial director of the database Théâtre antique en France (www.theatre-antique.fr), which is dedicated to the performances of Greek and Roman drama on the French stage.
Alena Sarkissian is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy in the Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic), working at the intersection between Theatre Studies and classical philology. Her research focuses on Greek and Roman drama and their reception, especially in Byzantium and in the Czech Republic. She leads a team that is building a database of Czech productions of Greek and Roman drama (
Peter Swallow was elected to the British Parliament as the Member for Bracknell in 2024. Prior to this he held postdoctoral research positions at Durham University (UK), the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London, and taught at both KCL and Goldsmiths. He has also taught at Notting Hill & Ealing High School. He is the author of Aristophanes in Britain: Old Comedy in the Nineteenth-Century (OUP 2023) and co-edited Aristophanic Humour with Edith Hall (Bloomsbury 2020). He served as the co-chair of the UK-based Classical Association Teaching Board, and has worked with the Advocating Classics Education project to expand access to classical education in schools and prisons. In 2023, he won the Classical Association Making Classics More Inclusive Award.
Martina Treu graduated at Pavia University, completed her PhD at Padova University, and teaches Ancient Art and Drama at IULM University (Italy). She is founder and member of CRIMTA-University of Pavia (