Author Biographies

      William Allan studied Classics and Gaelic at Edinburgh University. He is Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford, and McConnell Laing Fellow and Tutor in Classics at University College. His publications include Greek Elegy and Iambus: A Selection (Cambridge, 2019).

      Tobias Allendorf’s DPhil, on the choruses in Seneca’s tragedies, is in preparation for publication with OUP’s Classical Monographs series. He taught for various colleges and as a Departmental Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics at Oxford, before deciding to leave academia (and the UK) in 2019. He maintains interests in Latin literature, intersections between Latin and English, and the ways in which Latin and English are taught to the next generations.

      Lucia Athanassaki is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Crete. Her publications include Mantic Vision and Diction in Pindar’s Victory Odes (PhD thesis 1990); Ἀείδετο πὰν τέμενος (2009); Apolline Politics and Poetics (co-ed. with R. P. Martin and J. F. Miller, 2009); Archaic and Classical Choral Song (co-ed. with E. L. Bowie, 2011); Ιδιωτικός βίος και δημόσιος λόγος στην ελληνική αρχαιότητα και τον διαφωτισμό (co-ed. with A. Nikolaidis and D. Spatharas, 2014); Gods and Mortals in Greek and Latin Poetry (co-ed.with C. Nappa and A. Vergados, 2018). She is presently working on two Lyric and the Sacred (co-ed. with A. Lardinois, Brill) and Plutarch’s Cities (with F. B. Titchener, OUP) and writing a book, provisionally titled Euripides’ Athens. Art, Myth and Politics.

      Armand D’Angour is a Professor of Classics at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. He has published articles and chapters on the music, literature, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome, and has conducted research into reconstructing the sounds of ancient Greek music. Recent books include Music, Text, and Culture in Ancient Greece (OUP 2018, co-edited with Tom Phillips) and Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher (Bloomsbury 2019).

Krystyna Bartol is Full Professor of Classics at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. She works on Greek lyric poetry, especially on early elegy and iambus. She published a monograph on this topic (Greek Elegy and Iambus. Studies in Ancient Literary Sources, 1993) as well as numerous papers in various classical journals. Her areas of interest (besides Greek lyric poetry) include Greek Imperial prose (Athenaeus, Plutarch) and didactic poetry (Oppian). She has also produced Polish translations (with commentaries) of many Greek authors, among them Ps.- Plutarch, Philodemus, Oppian, and (co-authored) Athenaeus and comici minores.

      Ewen Bowie, now an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, was Praelector in Classics there from 1965 to 2007, and successively University Lecturer, Reader, and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature in Oxford University. He has written on early Greek elegiac, iambic and melic poetry; Aristophanes; Herodotus; Hellenistic poetry; and many aspects of Greek literature and culture under the Roman Empire. He has published a commentary on Longus, Daphnis and Chloe (CUP 2019); edited a collection entitled Herodotus. Narrator, scientist, historian (de Gruyter 2018); and co-edited collections entitled Archaic and Classical Choral Song (de Gruyter 2011) and Philostratus (CUP 2009).

      Christopher G. Brown is William Sherwood Fox Professor of Classics in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Western Ontario. He has written on a wide range of Greek poetry, and is currently the editor of Phoenix, the journal of the Classical Association of Canada.

      Ettore Cingano is Professor of Greek Literature at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. He has edited and commented on Pindar’s Pythians 1 and 2 for the Fondazione Valla and has published extensively on the epic cycle, on the Hesiodic corpus, on lyric poetry from Stesichorus to Bacchylides, on early mythography and local traditions. Among his most recent publications: “A Fresh Look at the Getty Hexameters: Style, Diction, Tradition and Context,” in C. Antonetti (ed.), Gli Esametri Getty e Selinunte: testo e contesto (2018); “The early antecedents for the representation of strong-minded women in Greek tragedy,” in G.B. D’Alessio, L. Lomiento, C. Meliadò, G. Ucciardello (ed.), Il potere della parola. Studi di letteratura greca per Maria Cannatà Fera (2020).

      Robert de Brose graduated summa cum laude in Classics from the University of São Paulo with a thesis on the performance of Pindaric epinikia. He is currently Professor of Classics and Translation at the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil, as well as member of the Graduate Programme of Translation Studies at that same institution. He has published on Ancient Greek lyric and poetics (mainly Pindar), its receptions and translation. He is currently working on a complete translation of Pindar’s odes and fragments, as well as on a translation of Greek lyric, and a handbook on Greek meter.

      Mark de Kreij is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek and Papyrology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. His research ranges from linguistics to papyrology, and in his current project he studies the material and documentary evidence for the reading, composition, and performance of Greek lyric in Roman Egypt.

      Evert van Emde Boas is Associate Professor in Classical Philology at Aarhus University. He previously held posts at the University of Oxford and at various universities in the Netherlands. His research focuses on the application of modern linguistic and cognitive approaches to Greek literature. He is the lead author of The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (CUP 2019), author of Language and Character in Euripides’ Electra (OUP 2017), and co-editor of Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature (Brill 2018).

      David Fearn is Reader in Greek Literature at the University of Warwick. He has published widely on Greek lyric poetry, including the recent books Pindar’s Eyes: Visual and Material Culture in Epinician Poetry (OUP, 2017), and Greek Lyric of the Archaic and Classical Periods: From the Past to the Future of the Lyric Subject (Brill, 2020), a survey of the state of lyric scholarship.

P. J. Finglass