Notes on Contributors
Andreas Bendlinis Assistant Professor
of Roman History at the University of
Toronto at Mississauga. His research
interests cover ancient polytheistic reli-
gions, particularly the religious systems
of ancient Greece and Rome, and the
culture and literature of the Roman
Mediterranean. He is preparing a book
on polytheism in Republican Rome.
Pierre Bonnechereis Professor of Greek
History at the Centre d’E ́tudes Classi-
ques in the University of Montre ́al. His
interests center upon the history of
Greek religion and ‘‘mentalite ́s.’’ He
has published widely on human sacrifice
and sacrifice in general and the oracles of
Boeotia. He is the author of a book on
the sanctuary of Trophonius,Trophonios
de Le ́bade ́e(2003). He has also compiled
the index of ancient authors for Jacoby’s
Fragmente der griechischen Historiker
(1999). He is currently investigating
what the Greeks meant by a ‘‘sacred
wood.’’
Jan N. Bremmeris Professor of Reli-
gious Studies at the Rijksuniversiteit
Gro ̈ningen, The Netherlands. He has
published widely on Greek religion and
social life, early Christianity and the his-
toriography of the history of religion,
and his works have been translated into
many languages, including (Dutch and
English aside) German, Italian, Spanish,
Portuguese, Romanian, and Chinese. He
is the author ofThe Early Greek Concept
of the Soul(1983),Greek Religion(2nd
edn, 1999), andThe Rise and Fall of the
Afterlife(2002). He is the co-author of
Roman Myth and Mythography (1987)
and co-editor ofA Cultural History of
Gesture(1991) andA Cultural History of
Humor(1997). He is the editor in chief
of the series Studies on Early Christian
Apocrypha (1995– ).T.H. Carpenteris the Charles J. Ping
Professor of Humanities and Professor
of Classics at Ohio University. He has
written extensively on archaic and clas-
sical Greek iconography with a particular
focus on imagery associated with Diony-
sos. He is the author of Dionysian
Imagery in Archaic Greece(1986),Dio-
nysian Imagery in Fifth Century Athens
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