Notes on Contributors

Radu Ardevan is Professor of Ancient History at Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca. A specialist in ancient history, epigraphy, and numismatics, he was awarded the Vasile Pârvan prize by the Romanian Academy (2000). He has been an active researcher at the National History Museum of Transylvania and the Institute for Archaeology and Art History in Cluj-Napoca. Besides numerous articles and book chapters, he has published several books: Viata municipala în Dacia romana (1998); with Viorica Suciu and Daniela Ciugudean, Tezaurul monetar roman "Apulum VII" (2003), and, with Livio Zerbini, La Dacia romana (2007).

Jerzy Axer is a Professor at the University of Warsaw and Warsaw Theatre Academy. His main fields of research are Ciceronian studies and the reception of classical tradition in European culture. He is the author of hundreds of articles and book chapters and 12 books in several languages, including The Style and the Composition of Cicero's Speech "Pro Roscio Comoedo" (1980); with Antonio Fontana, Espanoles y polacos en la Corte de Carlos V (1994); Lacina jako j?zyk elit (2004), and "The Classical Tradition in Central-Eastern Europe" in Companion to the Classical Tradition, edited by Craig Kallendorf (2007). Professor Axer is the founder and director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies and "Artes Liberales" at the University of Warsaw.

Jan Bazant is Professor of Classical Archaeology at Charles University, Prague, teaches also Classics at the Trnava University in Slovak Republic, and works in the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. His scholarly interests range from issues of classical studies to art history, semiotics of art to iconology. He has lectured at various scholarly institutions throughout Europe and participated in major international classical studies publishing and research projects. Recently he published the following books, for which his wife, Nina Bazantová, provided illustrations: Vrtba Garden in Prague (2011), Waldstein Palace in Prague (2011), St Nicholas in Lesser Town (2011), Vila Hvezda v Praze (2013), Prazský Belvedér (2014); and, with Frances Starn, edited The Czech Reader (2010).

Florin Berindeanu received a BA and MA from the University of Bucharest in Comparative Literature and Italian, a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Georgia, Athens, and he was also a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California at Irvine. He teaches comparative literature/world literature courses from antiquity to the twentieth century, and Italian and semiotics. As a generalist in the field of literature and literary theory, his specialty is medieval studies and mysticism.

Daniela Cadková has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the Charles University, Prague, and is a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. She deals primarily with the Classical reception in Czech literature, theatrical adaptations of Greek and Roman plays, and Czech translation literature on the methodological grounds of Comparative Studies in Literature. She has translated into Czech the anonymous Latin play Octavia.

Dorota Dutsch is the author of Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy: On Echoes and Voices (2008), and co-editor, with David Konstan and Sharon James, of Women in the Drama of the Roman Republic (2015), with Ann Suter, of Ancient Obscenities (2015), and with Ann Suter and Mary Bachvarova, of The Fall of the City in the Mediterranean (2016). Her current book project traces the cultural history of the female philosopher in ancient Greece.

Allison L.C. Emmerson is Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology at Tulane University. She received her MA and PhD from the University of Cincinnati. Her primary field research is based at Pompeii, but her interests extend through the provinces, particularly to Roman Greece and the Danubian limes.

Carmen Fenechiu is Assistant Professor of Classics at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. Her principal research interests lie in Latin syntax, reception of classics in Romanian culture, and Roman religion and epigraphy. Her publications include (with Frieda Edelstein and Dana LaCourse Munteanu) Sintaxa latina I. Sintaxa cazurilor (2012) and Sintaxa latina II. Sintaxa modurilor (2014), (with Dana LaCourse Munteanu), "Reinventing Ovid's Exile: Ex Ponto . Romanian Style," Classical Receptions Journal (2013), and La notion de numen dans les textes littéraires et épigraphiques (2008).

Octavian Gabor is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Methodist College, Peoria, IL. He works in Greek philosophy, especially Aristotle, and the philosophy of forgiveness. His most recent publication is the essay "Birth-Givers of Beauty: An Excursion into Finding One's Given Place within a Constellation," an introduction to Aspazia Otel Petrescu's With Christ in Prison (2014).

Violeta Gerjikova is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Sofia. She teaches and is interested in Greek and Roman civilization, history of classics, and classical reception. Publications in the above-mentioned areas of interest include the articles "Education in the Old Greek Classical Period as a Cultural Issue" (2001), "Translation Reception of Classical Literature in Bulgaria before the WWI" (2002), "Looking (at) Ariadne. Vision and Meaning in Catullus, Ovid and Hofmannsthal" (2007). She is a co-editor of the series Studia Classica Serdicensia (started in 2010).

Anna Grzeskowiak-Krwawicz is a historian. She is a professor at the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences and the President of the Polish Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Her main main research interests are in political ideas and discourse in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (16th-18th centuries) and the culture of the Enlightenment. Her books include Queen Liberty: The Concept of Freedom in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (2012), and Gulliver in the Land of Giants: A Critical Biography and the Memoirs of the Celebrated Dwarf Joseph Boruwlaski (2012); she is the editor, with Dominique Triaire, of Stanislas Auguste, Memoires (2012).

Jasenka Gudelj is Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb, specializing in the history of the architecture of the Adriatic region. Her book, The European Renaissance of Ancient Pula, explores the critical fortune of antiquities in Pula in the Renaissance art and architecture through the circulation of knowledge, its media and webs.

Ketevan Gurchiani studied classics at the Albert-Ludwigs University in Germany and at Tbilisi State University in the Republic of Georgia, where she defended her dissertation on ancient Greek religion and theater. Besides ancient theater, Ketevan Gurchiani is interested in studying continuities from the Soviet past. Her other interests include culturally shaped adaptation of narratives with the same core story. Currently she works as an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Ilia State University in Tbilisi.

Andreja N. Inkret completed her DPhil at Oxford University. She teaches at the Department of Classical Philology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. She has published articles on Aristophanic theater and the modern reception of ancient plays, co-authored a lexicon of Slovenian literary heroes, and worked as a translator and a columnist.

Neven Jovanovic is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Philology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia. His main research interest is Croatian neo-Latin literature. He is the editor in chief of the digital collection Croatiae auctores Latini, currently comprising over five million words of Latin texts written by authors connected with Croatia from 976 to 1984, and one of the editors of the Colloquia Maruliana, a yearbook of Croatian Humanist and Renaissance literature, published in Split. He is also author of a volume of essays on classical reception, Noga filologa (2006).

Ágnes Juhász-Ormsby is Associate Professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is the editor of "The Marriage and Coronation of Anne Boleyn [29 May-4 June 1533]" in Elizabeth Goldring, Faith Eales, Elizabeth Clarke, and Jayne Elisabeth Archer (eds.), John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources (2014), and "The Finest Room in the Colony:" The Library of John Thomas Mullock (2016). Her interests and publications include early modern English and neo-Latin drama and poetry, intellectual culture, and the classical tradition in early modern England and Central Europe.

Judith E. Kalb is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on interactions between Russian culture and the Greco-Roman classical tradition. Kalb's publications include Russia's Rome: Imperial Visions,...