Notes on Contributors
Emilia A. Barbiero is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at New York University after having received her Ph.D. in Classics at the University of Toronto in 2014. Her research interests focus on republican poetry and ancient letters. Emilia is currently working on a monograph exploring the epistolary motif in Plautine comedy, and has published articles on the aesthetics of Plautus’ translation as well as on the playwright’s use of Greek myth. Her other work includes chapters on the generic interaction between drama and oratory, and the comic models of the late-antique epistolographer Aristainetos.
Michèle Biraud is Professor of ancient Greek language and literature at the University of Nice Côte d’ Azur (FR). She is currently conducting research on ancient Greek Literature, especially novels and poetry of the first centuries of the Empire, on Greek Linguistics, especially syntax and enunciation, and on stress-based metrics. She recently published Les interjections du théâtre grec antique. Etude sémantique et pragmatique (2010); Romans grecs et poésie (2017); « De la Muse métrique à la Muse accentuelle: étude des organisations rythmiques dans les préfaces de deux ‘prosateurs’, Parthénios et Chariton » (in Penser la Prose, J.-P. Guez et D. Kasprzyk eds., La Licorne, 2016, 165–184).
Anna Tiziana Drago is Lecturer in Ancient Greek at the University of Bari (IT). She is an expert in ancient Greek epistolary literature and a specialist in ancient narrative literature, especially in the Roman Empire (the ‘Second Sophistic’). Her research interests include Greek and Roman erotic poetry, and intertextuality in Greek literature. As well as several articles, she is the author of two monographs: Aristeneto. Lettere d’amore (2007) and Eliano. Epistole rustiche (forthcoming). She also authored the chapter on Epistolographie in the Handbuch der griechischen Literatur der Antike, Bd. 3, edited by Bernhard Zimmermann and Antonios Rengakos (forthcoming), and the article on Aristaenetus in the Oxford Classical Dictionary (forthcoming).
Melissa Funke received her Ph.D from the University of Washington and is now Instructor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg. Her research interests are gender and sexuality in antiquity, Greek literature and performance culture in the Roman Empire, and fragmentary tragedy. She has published on sexuality and Menandrian intertext in Alciphron and is currently working on her monograph, Fragments of Gender: Women, Men, and the Polis in the Lost Plays of Euripides.
Rafael J. Gallé Cejudo is Professor in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Cádiz (ES), where he teaches and conducts research in the field of Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Literature. He is a member of the Andalusian Research Plan Group HUM 426 (“Grupo para el estudio filológico de textos griegos helenísticos y tardíos”). His research in the field of Late Greek epistolography initially focused on the Letters of Aristaenetus, and he has produced the first translation of this author into Spanish. He has since published several studies on this author, as well as on Philostratus and on the theory and practice of epistolary literature in Ancient Greece
Owen Hodkinson is Associate Professor in Greek and Roman Cultures at the University of Leeds (GB) and Visiting Professor of Classics at the Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro (IT). He is an expert in Greek epistolary literature; in addition to many chapters and articles in this field, he is co-editor with Patricia Rosenmeyer of Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature (2013), co-editor with Anna Tiziana Drago of Ancient Love Letters (forthcoming 2019), and is currently preparing with Jenny Bryan a new translation of the Platonic Epistles (Oxford University Press).
Émeline Marquis is a researcher at CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research, FR) and currently a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. She is working on Greek Literature of the Roman era and is also interested in the transmission of ancient texts, both from a philological and from a codicological perspective. Her critical edition of Lucian’s On the death of Peregrinus, Fugitives and Toxaris was published in 2017 in the Budé collection. She also co-published the revised translation of Lucian’s works with introductions and annotations: Lucien de Samosate. Œuvres complètes, 2015. Her ongoing project concerns epistolary fiction and deals with the so-called Letters of Phalaris.
A.D. Morrison is Professor of Greek at the University of Manchester (GB). He is the author of The Narrator in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic Poetry (2007) and Performances and Audiences in Pindar’s Sicilian Victory Odes (2007), and co-editor of Ancient Letters (2007) and Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013). He has recently completed revising a monograph examining Apollonius Rhodius’ engagement with historiography (especially Herodotus). His current major project is a commentary on selected poems of Callimachus (for the Cambridge ‘Green and Yellow’ series). He edited Classical Quarterly between January 2013 and January 2018. Since December 2016 has co-directed a four-year AHRC project on Ancient Letter Collections.
Yvonne Rösch has studied Classics and Classical Archaeology at the Universities of Heidelberg, Caen and Gießen. She is currently working as a teaching assistant for Greek Language and Literature at the University of Bonn (DE). Her research interests focus on ancient sexuality, gender and imperial literature. Her doctoral thesis is devoted to the character of the hetaira in Greek authors of the Second Sophistic, especially Lucian and his Dialogues of the Courtesans.
A. Sophie Schoess is lecturer of Classics at St Anne’s College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford (GB). Her research interests lie in the relationship between image and text in the classical world, and in the reception of classical myth from Late Antiquity through Modernity. Her doctoral thesis (University of Oxford, 2018) traced the reception of Ariadne’s myth in literature and the visual arts from antiquity through the Renaissance. Her current research focuses on Christian interpretations and retellings of classical myth in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Onofrio Vox is full professor of Greek Philology (Lingua e letteratura greca) at the University of Salento, Lecce (IT), and editor of “Satura. Testi e studi di letteratura antica” (Pensa MultiMedia, Lecce/Brescia). His main research fields: Greek Archaic and Hellenistic poetry, Attic tragedy, rhetorical prose and poetry both of imperial age and late antiquity. In the first field he focuses particularly on Solon, Anacreon, and their reception, in the second on bucolic poetry, in the third on Euripides’ tragedy, in the last on Lucian, Philostratus, Alciphron, Himerius, Anacreontea, epigrams.
Giuseppe Zanetto is Professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Milan (IT). His main scientific interests are Greek epic, Attic theatre, Hellenistic epigram, Greek narrative. He published critical editions of Aristophanes’ Birds (1987, 4th edition 1997) and [Euripides]’ Rhesus (1993), translations with commentary of several Euripides’ and Terence’s plays. He studied the language and the style of the Greek novel, being co-author of a Lexicon of Greek novelists. He has also been studying the Greek epistolary collections, publishing a critical edition of Theophylactus Simocatta’s Epistles (1985) and some contributions to Aristaenetus. He is now working on a new critical edition of Achilles Tatius’ novel.
Arnaud Zucker is Professor of ancient Greek language and literature, at the University of Nice Côte d’ Azur (FR), and deputy director of Cepam (UMR 7264, CNRS). His key research topics are ancient zoology, ancient astronomy, and mythography. He translated Aelian’s Natura Animalium and published several papers on Aelian and Plutarchus. He is currently working on zoological collections and the generic and cultural issues of ancient and late antique compilations. He recently published L’ encyclopédie du ciel. Mythologie, astronomie, astrologie (2016) and Lire les mythes. Formes, usages et visées des pratiques mythographiques de l’ Antiquité à la Renaissance (A. Zucker, J. Fabre-Serris, J.-Y. Tilliette, G. Besson (eds), 2016).