Notes on Contributors
Lucia Athanassaki is Professor of Classical Philology Emerita at the University of Crete. She has published extensively on Greek Lyric and Tragedy, with emphasis on the interface between performance and material culture, and more recently on Plutarch. Her recent work includes Plutarch’s Cities, co-edited with F.B. Titchener (2022) and several articles in all three areas. She is currently working on a book provisionally entitled, ‘Euripides’ Athens: Art, Myth, and Leadership’.
Mary R. Bachvarova is Professor of Classical Studies at Willamette University. She researches the prehistory of Greek literature and religion using texts from the Late Bronze Age Near East. She is the author of From Hittite to Homer: The Anatolian Background of Ancient Greek Epic (2016).
Anton Bierl is Professor of Greek Language and Literature Emeritus at the University of Basel. He is director and co-editor of Homer’s Iliad: The Basel Commentary and series-editor of MythosEikonPoiesis. His books include Dionysos und die griechische Tragödie (1991); Die Orestie des Aischylos auf der modernen Bühne (1996); Ritual and Performativity (2009); Sappho: Griechisch/Deutsch (2021); and The Newest Sappho: P. Sapph. Obbink and P. GC inv. 105, frs. 1–4 (2016), co-edited with André Lardinois.
Angus Bowie was Lobel Praelector in Classics at The Queen’s College, Oxford, and CUF Lecturer in Oxford University, until 2016. His main works are The Poetic Dialect of Sappho and Alcaeus (1981), Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy (1993), and commentaries on Herodotus 8 (2007), Odyssey 13–14 (2013), and Iliad 3 (2019). A commentary on Iliad 21–24 is being translated into Italian for publication by Lorenzo Valla, and he is currently writing a commentary on Odyssey 16 for CUP.
Claude Calame is Director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris; he was Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Lausanne. He also taught at the Universities of Urbino and Siena in Italy, and at Yale University in the US. He has published many works about Ancient Greek poetry, including The Craft of Poetic Speech in Ancient Greece (1995), The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece (1999), and Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece (2009).
Vanessa Casato (formerly known as Cazzato) carried out research on Greek lyric poetry and the symposion in Oxford, Nijmegen, Tokyo, and Paris before deciding to settle in the Tuscan countryside to grow tomatoes and write on other subjects. Over the last few years she has investigated in a comparative vein Japanese and ancient Greek lyric performance at the universities of Tokyo and Venice.
Stefano Fanucchi is currently teaching Latin and Greek at High School in Italy after being Postdoctoral Fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore. His research interests mainly focus on Pindar and Bacchylides; Greek tragedy; Panhellenism and geography in classical song; and lyric metre.
Thomas Hubbard retired in 2021 as the James R. Dougherty, Jr. Centennial Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. He has authored multiple books and articles on Greco-Roman literature and its influence. He is currently the President of the William A. Percy Foundation for Social and Historical Studies.
Athena Kavoulaki is Associate Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Crete, Rethymno. Her research interests include Greek drama, epic and lyric poetry, myth and ritual in the ancient world, the history of the ancient Greek theatre and the reception of Greek drama, and Greek culture in general.
Lawrence M. Kowerski is Associate Professor of Classics at Hunter College, CUNY and the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. His publications on Greek elegy include Simonides on the Persian Wars (2005).
André Lardinois is Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Among his publications are Sacred Words: Orality, Literacy and Religion, co-edited with J.H. Blok and M. van der Poel (2011); The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual, co-edited with V. Cazzato (2016); and The Newest Sappho: P. Sapph. Obbink and P. GC inv. 105, frs. 1–4 (2016), co-edited with Anton Bierl.
Amy Mars (formerly Lather) is Associate Professor of Classics at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Her first book, Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry, was published in 2021 as the inaugural title in Edinburgh University Press’s ‘Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms’ series. Her current book project investigates material traces (sand, dust, ash, blood, and hair) in ancient Greek epic and tragedy.
Richard P. Martin (Stanford) is the author of Mythologizing Performance (2020), Healing, Sacrifice and Battle (1983), The Language of Heroes (1989), Myths of the Ancient Greeks (2003), and Classical Mythology: The Basics (second edition, 2022). His other interests include Greek religion, comedy, ethnopoetics, and medieval Irish literature.
Gregory Nagy is Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature at Harvard University. His many books include Pindar’s Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past (1990).
Smaro Nikolaidou-Arabatzi is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Philology at Democritus University of Thrace. Her research interests include ancient Greek drama, choral poetry, and historiography. On these topics, she has published a significant number of articles and contributions, as well as three commentaries (on Sophocles’ Philoctetes, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Euripides’ Ino), a reconstruction of Aeschylus’ Lykourgeia tetralogy, and her thesis on the reception of Euripides’ Bacchae in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Cecilia Nobili is Associate Professor at the State University of Bergamo (Italy). She has published on archaic poetry (lyric and epic), including Corone di gloria. Epigrammi agonistici ed epinici dal VII al IV sec. a.C. (2016) and Voci di donne nell’epica. Personaggi e modelli poetici femminili nell’Iliade e nell’Odissea (2023). She is currently working on female poetic traditions and on women intellectuals in Greek society.
Cameron G. Pearson teaches Latin and Greek at Tormead School in Guilford, UK. His current research is about social status and social mobility in the archaic period. A recent article, ‘New Evidence for Slave Names and Social Mobility in Archaic Greece’, was published in R.R. Benefiel and C.M. Keesling, eds., Inscriptions and the Epigraphic Habit (Leiden 2024).
Gabriella Pironti is Directrice d’études at the EPHE, PSL–ANHIMA (Paris). Her research is focused on ancient Greek polytheism. She is the author of Entre ciel et guerre. Figures d’Aphrodite en Grèce ancienne (2007), The Hera of Zeus (2022, with V. Pirenne-Delforge) and co-editor of Les dieux d’Homère I, III and IV (2017, 2021, with C. Bonnet; 2025, with A. Grand-Clément and C. Bonnet).
Pavlos Sfyroeras is Professor of Classics at Middlebury College. He has published broadly on several Greek poets, including Aristophanes, Euripides, Sophocles, and Pindar.
Saskia Willigers holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. Her doctoral dissertation examined narrative authority in Homer, archaic lyric poetry, and the choral odes of Greek tragedy.