Biografisk notat

Patricia A. Johnston has been Professor of Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at Brandeis University, USA, since 1975. Her research focuses on Vergil and Latin Poetry, as well as on the Ancient Mystery Cults. Her publications include studies of Vergil's Golden Age, Mystic Cults of Magna Graecia, and, more recently, a commentary on Aeneid VI and a translation of Vergil's Aeneid (2012). As past President of the Vergilian Society, she established their annual Symposia Cumana, which she continued to organise, with Giovanni Casadio, for eighteen years. More recently, she has been co-organising, with Attilio Mastrocinque, Sophia Papaioannou, and László Takács, the annual Symposium Classicum Peregrinum.Attilio Mastrocinque is Professor of Roman History at the University of Verona, where he has taught since 1995. He has been Invited Professor at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and, in 2007, held courses at the École Pratique des Hautes Études – Ve section des sciences religieuses, Paris, as Director of Studies. Since 2005. he has been Director of the archaeological excavations on the Roman Forum of Grumentum (Lucania). His major publications include Studi sulle guerre Mitridatiche (1999); From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism (2005); Des mystères de Mithra aux mystères de Jésus (2009); Kronos, Shiva and Asklepios: Studies in Magical Gems and Religions of the Roman Empire (2011); and Les intailles magiques du Départment des monnaies médailles et antiques (2014).Sophia Papaioannou is Associate Professor of Latin Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her teaching and research interests include Augustan literature and poetics, Roman comedy, and Latin epic. Her recent publications include Terence and Interpretation (2014) and the joint edition (with Patricia Johnston and Edit Kraehling) of the papers presented at the 2011 Symposium Cumanum, under the title Idyllic Poetic Landscapes in Antiquity: Arcadia, the Golden Age, and the Locus Amoenus (2013).