Notes on Contributors

Malika Bastin-Hammou is Professor of Greek at the Université Grenoble Alpes (France). She has written widely on Aristophanes and his reception. Her most recent book is Translating Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe. Theory and Practice (15th-16th c.) (De Gruyter 2023), co-edited with Giovanna di Martino, Cécile Douduyt, and Lucy Jackson. Her forthcoming book focuses on translations of Aristophanes in early modern France.

Gwendolyn Compton-Engle is Professor of Classics at John Carroll University, where she teaches Latin and Greek language, literature, and culture. She has published articles on costume and performance in Greek comedy, as well as the relationship between comedy and tragedy in the late fifth and early fourth centuries BCE. She is the author of Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes (Cambridge 2015).

Pierre Destrée is a research fellow of the Fondation Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgium) and a professor at the Université catholique de Louvain, where he teaches ancient philosophy. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on ancient ethics, politics, and aesthetics, as well as a French translation and commentary on Aristotle's Poetics (Paris, Flammarion 2021). He has co-edited several books, most recently: (with Penelope Murray) The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Aesthetics, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015; (with Zina Giannopoulou) Plato: Symposium - A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press, 2017; (with Radcliffe Edmonds) Plato and the Power of Images, Brill, 2017; (with F. Trivigno) Laughter, Humor and Comedy in Ancient Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2019; (with D. Munteanu and M. Heath) The Poetics in Its Aristotelian Context, Routledge, 2020. He is currently completing a monograph on "Aristotle on Laughter."

A. C. Duncan is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research concerns the experience, evaluation, and impact of Greek drama, from its origins in ancient Athens to its reception in our modern, globalized world. In his recent and forthcoming work, he seeks to incorporate non-literary evidence and analytical methods to place the ancient theater within ever-wider cultural and historical contexts. As a director, translator, and occasional performer of Aristophanic comedy, he is particularly concerned with the material, social, and cognitive means through which theater fosters and showcases human creativity.

Elena Fabbro is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Udine (Italy). She has published numerous studies in the fields of archaic and early lyric poetry (riddles and symposial poetic repertories) and Greek drama, focusing on the comic hero's relationship with divinity, generational conflicts, and the representation of democratic power. She is also interested in classical reception, in particular, Pasolini's re-reading of Greek tragedy and his re-mythologization of the archaic world. She is the author of Carmina convivalia attica (Roma Edizioni dell'Ateneo 1995); Il mito greco nell'opera di Pasolini (conference proceedings, Udine Forum 2004); and Aristofane, Le Vespe (Milano Rizzoli 2012).

Matthew C. Farmer is Associate Professor of Classics at Haverford College. His research focuses on Greek comedy, with a particular emphasis on the study of comic fragments and on the relationships comedy forms with other genres. He is the author of Tragedy on the Comic Stage (2017) and Theopompus: Introduction, Translation, Commentary (2022).

Jennifer Ferriss-Hill is Professor of Classics at the University of Miami, where she has also held various academic administrative positions. She is the author of three books - Roman Satire and the Old Comic Tradition (Cambridge 2015), Horace's Ars Poetica: Family, Friendship, and the Art of Living (Princeton 2019), and Roman Satire (Brill 2022) - and in addition to her work on Old Comedy, Roman Satire, and Horace, she has also published on Virgil, Varro, and Catullus.

Helene P. Foley is Claire Tow Professor of Classics, Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of books and articles on Greek epic and drama, on women and gender in antiquity, and on modern performance and adaptation of Greek drama including Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides, The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Female Acts in Greek Tragedy, Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage, and Euripides: Hecuba.

Kate Gilhuly is Professor of Classical Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens (Cambridge 2009), Erotic Geographies in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (Routledge 2017), and co-editor with Nancy Worman of Place, Space, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (Cambridge 2014).

Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at the University of Durham. Her research specialisms are ancient epic and drama, Aristotle, the reception of classical civilization, gender, ethnicity, and class. She has published more than thirty books, including Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris (OUP 2013), winner of an SCS Goodwin Award for Merit, and (with Henry Stead) A People's History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1660-1939 (Routledge 2020). In 2017, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens, and in 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

Olimpia Imperio is Full Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Bari (Italy) and author of books and articles on comic and tragic theater - particularly Aristophanic comedy - and its reception. Her publications include the monographs Parabasi di Aristofane: Acarnesi, Cavalieri, Vespe, Uccelli (2004), Aristofane tra antiche e moderne teorie del comico (2014), the volume Fragmenta Comica 10.6: Aristophanes fr. 305-391 for the project KomFrag: Kommentierung der Fragmente der griechischen Komödie (2023), and the translations of Aristophanes' Frogs (2017) and Knights (2018) sponsored by INDA (Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico) for the Greek theatre of Syracuse.

Nikoletta Kanavou is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Athens. Her research interests are in fictitious prose narratives, archaic Greek poetry, comedy, literary theory, papyrology, epigraphy, and onomastics. Her work on comedy includes a book on comic personal names as well as articles on the ideology of Aristophanic comedies and the poet's use of myth. One of her current projects explores the comic element in the novel of Achilles Tatius.

Stephen Kidd is Associate Professor of Classics at Brown University, where he specializes in Greek literature of the classical and imperial periods. He is the author of two books - Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy (Cambridge 2014), which asks why comedy, unlike other genres, gives rise to the perception that some part of it is not meaningful; and Play and Aesthetics in Ancient Greece (Cambridge 2019), which explores the ancient Greek concept of play (paidia). Now he is writing a book about Lucian of Samosata.

David Konstan is Professor of Classics at New York University. He is the author of books on ancient comedy, the novel, friendship, the emotions of the ancient Greeks, the classical conception of beauty and its influence, forgiveness, and Greek and Roman ideas of love and affection. His most recent book is The Origin of Sin. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a past president of the American Philological Association.

Inger N.I. Kuin is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. Her research concerns the intellectual history of ancient Greece and Rome. Her most recent books are Lucian's Laughing Gods: Religion, Philosophy, and Popular Culture in the Roman East (University of Michigan Press 2023) and (in Dutch) Diogenes. Leven en denken van een autonome geest (Athenaeum - Polak & Van Gennep 2022), and she co-authored a new (also in Dutch) companion to classical literature, Muze, vertel. De Griekse en Latijnse literatuur van de oudheid (Amsterdam University Press 2023).

Donald Lateiner, Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Classics at Ohio Wesleyan University, usually researches the historiography of Herodotos (Historical Method of Herodotos) and Thoukydides and fifth-century Aegean history, recently misinformation and disinformation in these historians. He also examines ancient narratives, especially Homer (Sardonic Smile), Heliodoros' Aithiopika, and Apuleius' Metamorphoses, topics such as expression of emotions, nonverbal behaviors, particularly affect displays or "leakage" (e.g. blushes, tears), laughter, humiliation and stupefaction, forms of insult, and gendered self-advancement. He once performed one-man scenes from Lysistrata for Banned Books Day and appeared as Donald Trump in the 2016 SCS production of The Nerds/Birds.

Jeremy B. Lefkowitz is Associate Professor of Classics at Swarthmore College. He has...