Notes on Contributors
Damien Agut-Labordère
is permanent researcher at the French CNRS based in Nanterre and director of the Programme Achemenet. Damien Agut-Labordère has published extensively (around 50 papers) on the social and economic history of Egypt during the First Millennium BCE, focusing more closely on the Persian Period (526–332 BCE). As specialist of the Demotic script he is involved in several archaeological missions in Egypt in the Western Desert (Kharga Oasis).
Laurent Bricault
is Professor of Roman History at Toulouse Jean Jaurès University, and member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His research focuses on the cults in the Greco-Roman Empire. Recent publications include Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas (Leiden 2020) and Les cultes de Mithra dans l’Empire romain (Toulouse 2021).
Hervé Gonzalez
is Researcher at the Collège de France, Paris, associated to the chair “The Hebrew Bible and Its Contexts”. He holds a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Lausanne. His research focuses on the birth of the Hebrew Bible, with an emphasis on prophetic literature, and on the history of ancient Israel, especially in the Persian and Hellenistic periods.
Casper C. de Jonge
is Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at Leiden University. His research focuses on classical rhetoric, ancient literary criticism and Greek literature in the Roman world. Recent publications include ‘Greek Migrant Literature in the Early Roman Empire’, Mnemosyne 75 (2022), 10–36, and the edited volume Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome: Rhetoric, Criticism and Historiography (with Richard Hunter; Cambridge 2019).
André Lardinois
is Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and the executive director of the Gravity Grant program Anchoring Innovation. His main field of study is archaic Greek poetry and classical drama. Recent publications include The Newest Sappho: P. Sapph. Obbink and P. GC inv. 105, frs. 1–4 (Leiden 2016), edited with Anton Bierl.
William Marx
is Professor at the Collège de France, Paris, Chair of Comparative Literatures. His research focuses on the variety and evolution of the conceptions and practices of literature through cultures, from classical antiquity till contemporary times. His recent publications include The Hatred of Literature (Harvard 2018) and the upcoming translation of his book about Greek tragedy, The Tomb of Oedipus. Why Greek Tragedies Were Not Tragic (Verso 2022).
John K. Papadopoulos
is Distinguished Professor of Archaeology and Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is co-director of the Ancient Methone Archaeological Project in northern Greece, and, beginning in July 2022, director of the excavations in the Athenian Agora. He is the author or editor of twelve books, over 100 articles, and some 50 book reviews.
Alessandra Rolle
is currently Lecturer of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Lausanne and board member of the doctoral program ‘Forms of cultural exchange’ at the University of Trento. She has published several articles and book chapters on Varro, Roman religion and Latin declamation. Her most recent publications include Dall’Oriente a Roma. Cibele, Iside e Serapide nell’opera di Varrone (Pisa 2017) and Déclamations et intertextualité. Discours d’école en dialogue (Bern 2020, together with J. Pingoud).
Miguel John Versluys
is Professor of Classical & Mediterranean Archaeology at Leiden University and PI within the Gravity Grant program Anchoring Innovation. His research focuses on the cultural dynamics that characterise the global ancient world. Recent publications include Visual style and constructing identity in the Hellenistic world. Nemrud Dağ and Commagene under Antiochos I (Cambridge 2017) and the edited volume Beyond Egyptomania. Objects, style and agency (Münich 2020).
Greg Woolf
is Ronald J. Mellor Professor of Ancient History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His interests include cultural change in antiquity, early urbanism and ancient literacies. His latest book is The Life and Death of Ancient Cities. A Natural History (Oxford, 2020).
Marie Young
is a PhD student in cotutorship between the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and Heidelberg University, Institute of Assyriology. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the social role of scholars during the second half of the first millennium BCE (609 BCE–75 CE). She is investigating through a socio-historical method the administrative documents in which they are appearing with the goal to reconstruct their sociability and daily life. Previously, she studied History at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris and at the Free University of Berlin, Institute of Assyriology.