Contributors
Ália Rosa Rodrigues
earned a PhD in reception studies with the subject “Tragédia e política: João de Castro Osório”, published in 2013. From then her research interests included history of political ideas, namely the history of the concept of lawgiver, constitution making, radical foundings and revolutionary breaks. Among her publications are the article “To be a lawgiver, a more sublimated form of tyranny: Solon and Peisistratus’ expression of power” (in Figure d’Atene nelle opera di Plutarco, Florence, 2013) and “Antigone, Daughter of the d’Annunzian Oedipus. The Oedipus Trilogy (1936) by Castro Osório” (in Portrayals of Antigone in Portugal, Leiden, Brill, 2017).
Andrés Pociña Pérez
(Lugo, 1947) is Full Professor of Latin Philology at the University of Granada, having been Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and Director of the Latin Philology Department. He is currently responsible for the Junta de Andalucía HUM 318 Research Group. He teaches Latin literature (undergraduate) and Greco-Latin drama and its continuity in modern theatre (MA). His main areas of research include Latin literature (different genres): the continuity of classical drama; Galician literature; 20th century Greek poetry.
Aurora López López
(Sarria, Lugo, 1948) is Full Professor of Latin Philology at the University of Granada and Director of the Equality between Women and Men Research Unit. She currently teaches Latin texts (undergraduate), Roman women (MA), and Greco-Latin Drama and its continuity (MA). Her main lines of research include Latin Literature, especially comedy and tragedy; studies on women’s literature and literature on women; classical continuity and tradition, notably in the field of drama.
Carlos Morais
earned a PhD in Literature (area of specialization: Greek literature) from the University of Aveiro with the thesis O Trímetro Sofocliano: variações sobre um esquema (The Sophoclean Trimeter: Variations on a Scheme), published in 2010 (Lisboa, FCT/FCG). A Professor at the Universidade de Aveiro (Languages and Cultures Department), his main areas of research include Greek literature and the reception of Classical drama; he has published Máscaras Portuguesas de Antígona (Portuguese Masks of Antigone) (Aveiro 2001), and has several chapters and articles on the Antigone myth in Portuguese and Spanish literature published in international books and journals.
Maria António Hörster
is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra. Her PhD thesis (1993), entitled Para uma história da recepção de Rainer Maria Rilke em Portugal (1920–1960) (Contribution to the Reception Story of Rainer Maria Rilke in Portugal (1920–1960)), was published by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/FCT in 2001. Her main research include comparative literature and translation studies. She is the author of about a hundred publications.
Maria do Céu Grácio Zambujo Fialho
has been Full Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Coimbra and is coordinator of the Greek studies area of the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies of the same university. She was scientific coordinator of the Center between 2000 and 2014. Teaching activities, research interests and publications include: classical studies, Greek theatre and its reception, poetics and ethics (Plato and Aristotle), Plutarch, Alexandrian epic, and the Greek novel. She has authored several books and papers and translated into Portuguese Sophocles’ Trachiniae, Oedipus the King, Electra, Oedipus at Colonus, and Plutarch’s Life of Theseus and Life of Alcibiades.
Maria de Fátima Sousa e Silva
is Full Professor in the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of Coimbra. Her PhD field of research was ancient Greek comedy (Theatre Criticism in Ancient Greek Comedy). She has since been undertaking research in the same area and has published several articles. She has also published translations, with commentaries, of nine comedies by Aristophanes, and a volume with the translation of Menander’s plays and best-preserved fragments.
Patrick J. Finglass
is Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek and Head of the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol. He has published editions of Sophocles’, Oedipus the King (2018), Ajax (2011) and Electra (2007), of Stesichorus (2014), and of Pindar’s Pythian Eleven (2007), and has (with Adrian Kelly) co-edited the Cambridge Companion to Sappho (2019) and Stesichorus in Context (2015), all with Cambridge University Press.
Rosanna Lauriola
(Ph.D. in Greek and Latin Philology, University of Firenze – Italy), currently Adjunct Assistant Professor at Randolph-Macon College (VA), has taught as a Lecturer, Visiting Professor, and Assistant Professor of Classics in several American Institutions of Higher Education, such as the University of Texas in San Antonio, the University of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University, Marshall University, and the University of Idaho. She has published several papers on Hesiod, Pindar, Sophocles, and Aristophanes both in Italian and in English, and more recently on Classical Reception. Her books include Aristofane serio-comico. Paideia e Geloion. Con una lettura degli Acarnesi (Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2010); Aristofane. Acarnesi (Milano: BUR, 2008); Sofocle. Edipo Re (Milano: Mondadori-Pearson, 2000). She has co-edited Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Euripides (Brill 2015), to which she has also contributed four chapters, on Hippolytus, Medea, Suppliant Women, and Trojan Women.
Susana Maria Duarte da Hora Marques Pereira
Adjunct Professor in the Institute of Classical Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Coimbra, belongs to the Center of Classical and Humanistic Studies in the same University and to the project DIAITA. Her PhD thesis (2006), in Greek literature, has the title “Dreams and Visions in Greek tragedy”. She has authored several titles in the areas of Greek literature, reception studies, didactics, neolatin literature, and has translated into Portuguese Strabo’s book on Lusitania.