Notes on Contributors
Dimitra Eleftheriou
holds a Ph.D in Classics from Université Paris-Nanterre (2018). Her doctoral dissertation focused on a critical edition, translation, and commentary on Pseudo-Antigonus of Carystus. Her research interests include paradoxography, mythography, ancient Greek religion, and the politics of Hellenistic and Greco-Roman society. Together with Charles Delattre, she has co-authored her first book on paradoxography, which was launched in 2024 from the Presses Universitaires de Lille. Since 2019, she has held the position of Adjunct Lecturer in Classics at the University of Ioannina (Greece), where she teaches Ancient Greek. She has recently completed her post doctoral research (2023) at the same University.
Andrea Filoni
has been a Research Fellow of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milano, in Greek Language and Literature. He is interested in Greek mythology and mythography, regional traditions, metrics, Greek grammarians (of Alexandria and not only), and ancient literary exegesis in general, about which he has written extensively. He reconstructed a paean for the Zeus of Dodona composed by Pindar (Il peana di Pindaro per Dodona, 2007), and the sources of the allegorical manual by L. Annaeus Cornutus (Alle fonti di Cornuto, 2018 “Aitia” 18.2). He discovered and published a work of the Alexandrian grammarian Aristonicus resumed by Strabo (Aristonico grammatico.
Frances Foster
teaches at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Her work straddles the reception of antiquity at two distinct moments: late antiquity and the present day. Previous publications on late antiquity have appeared in The Classical Quarterly, Language and History, and chapters in Ars et Commentarius (eds. Garcea and Vallat) and A Late Antique Poetics? The Jeweled Style Revisited (eds. Hartman and Kaufmann).
J. J. Hall
read Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and then did research there, gaining a Ph.D. for a dissertation on ancient theories of wind. He spent his career on the staff of Cambridge University Library, working mainly in the Rare Books Department, and trying to continue research in his spare time. His publications include “The classification of birds in Aristotle and early modern naturalists” (History of science 29 [1991]: 111–151, 223–243) and, completed after retirement, Cambridge Act and Tripos verses 1565–1894 (Cambridge Bibliographical Society monograph 15, 2009). Since then he has returned to the study of ancient meteorology; his book The meteorology of Posidonius was published by Routledge in 2023.
Andrew M. Hill
is a post-doctoral Research Fellow in The Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities in Dublin. A classically trained historian with a research specialization in Hellenistic North Africa and Mediterranean environmental history, he obtained his PhD in 2023 funded by scholarships from Trinity College Dublin and an Irish Research Council Postgraduate Fellowship with his thesis The Libyan Wars: Crisis, Climate, and Conflict in Carthaginian North Africa. He received his BA from University College Cork in 2015 and his MPhil from Trinity in 2016.
Susanne M. Hoffmann
is an astronomer, who graduated in physics and history of the exact sciences at the Universities of Potsdam and Hamburg. She obtained her doctoral degrees at Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Siegen. She has been working as a freelance astronomer with schools, planetariums, and observatories in Germany, USA, Portugal, Mauretania, Russia, and Austria since 1998, and in universities (Germany, Austria, Indonesia, Israel) since 2001. She has specialized on the etymologies and history of transfer and transformation of constellation names, on applied and computational historical astronomy, and on education of astronomy with the methodologies of physics, computer science, and history.
Giouli Korobili
is Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Ioannina, Department of Philosophy. She has been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Utrecht and has held several post-doctoral positions in Berlin. She studied Classical Philology in Athens (BA), Ioannina (MA), and Berlin (PhD). She has contributed to a number of collective volumes on Aristotle, ancient medicine, and Byzantine Aristotelian commentators. She is the author of Aristotle. On Youth and Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1–6: With Translation, Introduction and Interpretation (Springer, 2022) and of a forthcoming Translation and Commentary on the fragments of the Greek physician Praxagoras of Cos (with K. Stefou). Her forthcoming book deals with medical analogies found in meteorological accounts of Greco-Roman antiquity.
Darcy Krasne
is a Lecturer in Classics and Ancient Studies at Barnard College. She has published articles and book chapters on Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica, Ovid’s Ibis, Metamorphoses, and Fasti, Vergil’s Aeneid, and Statius’s Silvae; she is also the co-editor of After 69 CE: Writing Civil War in Flavian Rome (De Gruyter, 2018). Her forthcoming monograph, Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica, explores Valerius’s engagement in his epic with philosophy and natural philosophy, especially meteorology.
Frédéric Le Blay
graduated from École normale supérieure in Paris and Sorbonne University; he holds a PhD in Classics from Nantes University (France), where he has been an Associate Professor from 2008 to present. His research deals with environmental knowledge in the ancient world; it covers the fields of medicine (classical antiquity as well as its modern and contemporary heritage), cosmologies, and meteorology within a perspective combining epistemology with anthropology. He was the editor of A Universal of the End of the World? (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2018) and co-editor with R. Compatangelo-Soussignan and F. Diosono of Living with Seismic Phenomena in the Mediterranean and Beyond between Antiquity and the Middle-Ages (Archaeopress, Oxford, 2022).
Robert Mayhew
is Professor of Philosophy at Seton Hall University (New Jersey). His specialization is ancient Greek philosophy and science, and especially the thought of Aristotle and other early Peripatetics. His recent publications include Aristotle’s Lost Homeric Problems (Oxford UP, 2019) and Theophrastus of Eresus: On Winds (Brill, 2018). He is the editor of The Aristotelian Problemata Physica: Philosophical and Scientific Investigations (Brill, 2015) and co-editor of Clearchus of Soli: Text, Translation, and Discussion (Routledge, 2022), and he prepared the Loeb Classical Library edition of the Problemata Physica attributed to Aristotle (2011). Among his work in progress is a volume on the fragments of Aristotle’s lost Zoïka (texts, translation, and commentary).
Anne-Sophie Meyer
studied classical philology and archaeology in Neuchâtel (CH), Munich (D) and Basel (CH). In 2020, she received her PhD in Latin Studies from the University of Basel, where she is currently working as a research and teaching assistant. In addition to her research focus on Lucan’s Bellum Civile and the reception of the natural sciences, she is particularly interested in ancient theater, as well as gender studies and interdisciplinary approaches in ancient studies.
Colin Fitzpatrick Murtha
is a PhD candidate at Radboud University in the Netherlands, and is currently writing his dissertation on the meteorological writings of Avicenna.
Konstantinos Stefou
studied Classics and Ancient Philosophy at the University of Ioannina, wherefrom he received his Ph.D. in 2014. He has served as a Scientific Associate and Visiting Assistant Professor in several Universities at home and abroad. He has published a monograph on Plato’s Laches and a number of studies on the Platonic Socrates, Aristotle, Pindar, the Hippocratic Corpus, and Aeneas the Tactician. He has also co-edited a two-volume anthology of Roman poetry, and is a member of the founding and editorial team of the international journal Rhetoric and Science. His research interests include ancient Greek and Roman literature, philosophy, historiography, oratory and rhetoric, medicine and science.
Vanda Strachan
works primarily on Roman cultural history. She is particularly interested in how ideas shape behavior and how this, in turn, can affect a society’s historical trajectory. These interests currently manifest in her DPhil project which considers the role of lightning in Roman history.
Tyson Sukava
is an Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Delaware, United States. His general research interests cluster around the intellectual histories of ancient Greece and Rome, with a primary focus on Greek science and medicine. His current projects examine the channels for exchanging ideas between so-called expert groups and the general public and how these ideas were variously received and integrated.
Liba Taub
is Professor Emerita in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, and Fellow Emerita of Newnham College. In addition to Ancient Meteorology (2003), she is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on ancient Greek and Roman science, including Aetna and the Moon (2008), Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2017), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science (2020), and Ancient Greek and Roman Science: A Very Short Introduction (2023), as well as The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 1: Ancient Science (with Alexander Jones).
Teun Tieleman
(PhD with highest distinction, Utrecht 1992) is Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Medicine at Utrecht University, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies; visiting positions at Cambridge University (1993), Novosibirsk State University, Siberia (2008, 2011, 2012, 2013), UCLA (2009), the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, ACU, Melbourne (2018) as well as Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2023). His research focuses on Galen of Pergamum, Stoicism (Early Stoa, Posidonius, Seneca), theories of emotion, the relation between ancient medicine and religion as well as ancient philosophy and early Christianity. He is a member of the governing board of the Gravitation-program “Anchoring Innovation” (2017–2027) and Chair of the board of OIKOS, the Netherlands research school in classical studies.
Cristian Tolsa
is Professor in Greek Philology at the University of Barcelona. He has worked on several topics about the limits between the ancient sciences and other cultural manifestations in antiquity, comprising the ancient poetic imagination in relation to mathematicians’ lives, the interplay between philosophy and the mathematical sciences in the work of Claudius Ptolemy, and some aspects of Ptolemy’s reception in Porphyry and Olympiodorus. He has also studied the tradition of Hellenistic astrology, both focusing on the astrologers’ methods and calculations and on the form of the astrological manuals. His latest contribution is an edited collection with commentary of the fragments of the astrologer Critodemus.
Garry Toth
was born and raised in Alberta, Canada. B.Sc. Mathematics, 1973, University of Alberta, Edmonton; M.Sc. Physics, 1978, McGill, Montreal. Environment Canada meteorologist (1973–2013) in many roles: Canada: military and public weather offices (forecast and science units); private sector (project operations); national HQ Toronto (R&D); Canadian Meteorological Centre, Montreal (forecast operations, projects, and hiring committee for new meteorologists).
International: Morocco, 1984 (cloud seeding operations with military staff); COMET (Cooperative Institute for Meteorology, Education and Training, Colorado, USA), 2003–2004 (develop Internet-based training materials); Martinique, 2013 (hurricane season operations with Météo-France). Philatelic website (with a colleague): Weather and Climate Philately: https://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/dev/hillger/weather.htm (contains Ancient Contributors to Meteorology https://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/dev/hillger/ancient.htm).
Michiel van Veldhuizen
PhD Brown University, 2019, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and a fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies (2023–2024). He works on topics in ancient Greek religion and intellectual history, drawing on such fields as semiotics, ecocriticism, and animal studies to illuminate ancient mentalities and modern receptions. The title of his first monograph is Divining Disaster: Signs of Catastrophe in Ancient Greek Culture, in which he analyzes the ways in which the ancient Greeks gave meaning to such disastrous events as plagues, famines, and shipwrecks, and the lessons it may hold for hermeneutic disaster management today.
Rienk Vermij
is a Professor in the department of the history of science, technology, and medicine of the University of Oklahoma. He is a native of the Netherlands, where he got his degree in history and obtained his PhD at the Institute for History and Foundations of Science at Utrecht University. After working as a researcher at various places in the Netherlands and Germany, he came to Oklahoma in 2007. His research focusses mainly on the sciences and the intellectual culture of the early modern period. His most recent book is Thinking on Earthquakes in Early Modern Europe: Firm beliefs on Shaky Ground (Routledge, 2022).
Malcolm Wilson
is Professor of Classics at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Aristotle’s Theory of the Unity of Science (Toronto, 2000) and Structure and Method in Aristotle’s Meteorologica (Cambridge, 2013). His current projects include a new annotated translation of Meteorologica I–III (Hackett) and a monograph on the conceptual architecture of Aristotle’s physical works.
Danchen Zhang
is a PhD candidate in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick, working on a thesis about winds in Sophoclean theatre. Before entering the PhD program, she did a MSt in classical literature at Oxford, and her MPhil (philosophy) and BA (Liberal Arts) at Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China). Her research explores the perception of the natural world and the employment of space in Greek drama, as well as the interactions between theatre, Presocratic philosophy, and medicine in the fifth century BCE. She is also interested in the wind metaphor in ancient Chinese science, medicine, and literature. Her Chinese translation of Reading Greek Tragedy (Goldhill, S., CUP, 1986) was published in 2020 (SDX Joint Publishing).
Paul Ziche
studied philosophy, physics, and psychology at Munich and Oxford, and has a PhD and ‘Habilitation’ at Munich with theses on Hegel’s and Schelling’s usage of concepts from the natural sciences and mathematics, and on the relationship between philosophy and the sciences around 1900. Between 1996 and 2000 he was an assistant professor at the Institute for the history of medicine, the natural sciences, and technology at Jena University. Between 2001 and 2007 he was employed at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, working on the critical edition of the works of F. W. J. Schelling. Since 2008, he is a professor for the history of modern philosophy at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. His areas of interest include: history of modern philosophy, philosophy and the sciences, and histories of disciplines and institutions.