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Cecilia Cozzi is a sixth year PhD candidate in Philology at the University of Cincinnati. She received both her BA and her MA from the University of Trento (Italy), in 2014 and 2016 respectively. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge and at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), where she completed her master thesis on Hecate, Aphrodite and Circe as characters emulating Medea’s journey in Apollonius Rhodius’s Argonautica. She had also taught as a contract instructor at Carleton University in 2017 before joining the doctoral program at UC. Her research interests range from Greek verse (both epic and tragedy) to Latin verse (especially Ovid and the reception of Hellenistic poetry) and rely on the use of different methodologies, including psychoanalysis. Her PhD thesis employs psychoanalytical categories to investigate how fathers and sons negotiate inheritance in its broad implications (both tangible and spiritual) on the tragic stage.

Carolyn Macdonald is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton). Her research investigates the intersections of visual art, literature, the urban landscape, and cultural self-fashioning in the Classical world. She co-edited Rome, Empire of Plunder (2017) and is currently writing a book on literary and visual responses to the Roman appropriation of Greek art.

Maria Beatrice Bittarello holds a degree in Classics and History of Religions from Università “La Sapienza” of Rome (Italy) and a Doctorate from the University of Stirling (Scotland, UK), focusing on the recrafting of three ancient goddesses in contemporary Paganism. She has adopted an interdisciplinary approach, working at the intersections of several academic disciplines and drawing on methodologies such as structuralism and critical theory. Her research has focused on issues such as mythical blacksmiths, ethnic stereotyping in the ancient world, contemporary Paganism, the analysis of established categories in the study of religion, as, in particular, myth, ritual and polytheism, and the history of virtual worlds.

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