David B. Dodd obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1999 with a dissertation on adolescents in Greek myth. He has delivered papers on Greek tragedy and choral poetry, and has published articles on ancient homosexuality and American superhero comics. He teaches Latin at Newark Academy in Livingston, New Jersey.
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III is an Assistant Professor of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia. He has written articles on Orphism, magic, and Plato, and he is at work on a book on myths of the journey to the underworld.
Christopher A. Faraone is Professor in the Department of Classics and the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World at the University of Chicago. He is co-editor (with T. Carpenter) of Masks of Dionysus (1993) and author of Ancient Greek Love Magic (1999) and a number of articles on early Greek poetry, religion, and magic.
Gloria Ferrari is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at Harvard University. She further explores the role of metaphor in visual representations in Figures of Speech: Men and Maidens in Ancient Greece (2002).
Fritz Graf teaches Classics at Ohio State University. He is working on ancient religions, especially on questions of ritual and festivals. His most recent books are Magic in the Ancient World (1997) and a slim volume on calendar and festivals in Rome: Der Lauf des rollenden Jahres (1997).
Cristiano Grottanelli is Professor of History of Religions in the Universities of Modena and Florence. He has recently written Il sacrificio (1999) and co-edited (with F. Cordano) Sorteggio pubblico e cleromanzia dall’antichità all’ età moderna (2001). He is currently preparing a book on biblical prophecy.
Sarah Iles Johnston is Professor of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University. She is the author of Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece (1999) and other books and articles on ancient Greek religions.
David D. Leitao is an Associate Professor of Classics at San Francisco State University. He is the author of several articles on Greek myth and ritual and on the history of gender and sexuality in antiquity.
Bruce Lincoln is the Caroline E. Haskell Professor of History of Religions at the University of Chicago and an associate member of the Departments of Anthropology and Classics. His writings include Theorizing Myth (1999) and Emerging from the Chrysalis: Studies in Rituals of Women’s Initiation (2nd edn, 1991).
Nanno Marinatos is Professor of Classics and Mediterranean Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her area of research is pre-Greek and Greek religious ritual in imagery and texts. Her books include The Goddess and the Warrior: the Naked Goddess and Mistress of Animals in Early Greek Religion (2000) and several co-edited volumes (with R. Hägg), the most recent of which is Greek Sanctuaries (1993).
Ian Moyer is a Ph.D. candidate in the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World at the University of Chicago. His dissertation research examines the role of Egyptian priests in interactions between the Greek world and Egypt, and he has written articles on Herodotus and Graeco-Egyptian religion.
Irene Polinskaya is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Bowdoin College. Her research focuses on local religious practices in ancient Greece, models and approaches to the study of Greek religion, and the social history and archaeology of ancient Greece.
James M. Redfield is the Edward Olson Professor in the Department of Classics, the Committee on Social Thought, the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, and the College, University of Chicago. He is author of Nature and Culture in the Iliad (1975) and of numerous essays on diverse topics; his next book, The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy, is forthcoming from Princeton.