Contributors
Alberto Bernabé
is Emeritus Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid. He is editor of Poetae Epici Graeci (21996) and Orphicorum Fragmenta (2004–2007, three volumes) in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana and the author of several books and many articles on Orpheus and Orphism.
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
is the Paul Shorey Professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College. He is author of the book Redefining Ancient Orphism: A Study in Greek Religion, Cambridge, 2013, and of many articles on Orphism and Greek Religion.
Chiara Ferella
is a Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Research Training Group “Early Concepts of Humans and Nature: Universal, Specific, Interchanged” at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. She works on Empedocles’ fragments, pre-Socratic philosophy, Orphism and Metaphor Theory.
Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal
is Associate Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid. She is the author, with A. Bernabé, of Instructions for the Netherworld. The Orphic Gold Tablets, Leiden, 2008.
Roger T. Macfarlane
is Associate Professor at Brigham Young University. He is a specialist in the use of Multi-spectral Photography for the reading of ancient manuscripts, such as the Herculaneum Papyri.
Gianluca Del Mastro
is Assistant Professor in Papyrology at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. He works on Greco-Egyptian and Herculaneum Papyri.
Carlos Megino Rodríguez
is Assistant Professor of Greek Philosophy at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He is the author of Orfeo y el orfismo en la poesía de Empédocles: influencias y paralelismos, Madrid, 2005.
Valeria Piano
is a research associate in Classical Philology at the Università degli Studi di Firenze. She mostly works on philosophical and religious texts, on the Orphics and the Derveni Papyrus, with a particular focus on the reconstruction of the roll as well as on the religious and philosophical background of the author. She has published the book Il Papiro di Derveni tra religione e filosofia, Firenze, 2016.
Sofia Ranzato
is a Secondary-school Teacher. She completed her PhD in the Università di Pisa in 2011. She works on pre-Socratic philosophy, archaic epic and mystery traditions. She is author of the monograph Il kouros e la verità. Polivalenza delle immagini nel poema di Parmenide, Pisa, 2015.
Marco Antonio Santamaría
is Associate Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Salamanca. He is the author of several articles and book chapters on Orphic texts, Greek cosmogonies and afterlife conceptions.
Marisa Tortorelli
is a former Professor of History of Religions at the Università di Napoli Federico II and ordinary member of the Accademia Pontaniana. She is the author, among other works on orphism and mystery cults, of Figli della Terra e del Cielo Stellato. Testi orfici con traduzione e commento, Napoli, 2006. She also edited the volume Aurum. Funzioni e simbologie dell’oro nelle culture del Mediterraneo antico, Roma, 2014.