About the Contributors

ALBERTO BERNABÉ is Professor of Ancient Greek at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

FREDERICK BRENK, S.J., is Professor Emeritus, Pontificio Instituto Biblico, Rome, Italy.

PAOLO CAPUTO is director of the excavations at Cumae and Archaeologist and Coordinating Director at the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici per le Province di Napoli e Caserta.

GIOVANNI CASADIO is Professor of History of Religions at the Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy, and co-director of the annual Symposia Cumana sponsored by the Vergilian Society.

RAYMOND J. CLARK is Professor of Classics, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

RADCLIFFE G. EDMONDS is Associate Professor of Classics in the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

RICHARD GORDON is Honorary Professor in the Department of Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft at the Universität Erfurt, Germany.

R. DREW GRIFFITH is Professor and Graduate Chair, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

CORNELIA ISLER-KERÉNYI has published widely on Greek art, the history of research, Roman Switzerland, and Dionysos.

ANA JIMÉNEZ SAN CRISTOBAL is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

PATRICIA A. JOHNSTON is Professor of Classics and Chair of the Religious Studies Program at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

KATHRYN M. LUCCHESE is Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

BONNIE MACLACHLAN is Associate Professor and Graduate Chair at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.

LUTHER H. MARTIN is a professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Vermont in Burlington and Distinguished International Fellow Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queen’s University Belfast.

GLENN PALMER, Brandeis University, does research in Mithraism and also in biology.

GIULIA SFAMENI GASPARRO is Professor for the History of Religions at the Department of Late Antique, Medieval, and Humanistic Studies at the Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy.