Editorial Board
Dr. Giuseppe (Joey) Ficocelli
Chief Editor
PhD in Classics from the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Studies. PhD examined the economic history of Roman aristocratic wealth from the 3rd to 1st centuries BCE and how it intersected with Republican politics.
Lucilla Crespi
Senior Editor
Third Year PhD Candidate in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. Lucilla’s research investigates fable and folktale elements found across Homeric similes through a comparative analysis with Near Eastern and Greek folklore narrative motifs. Her expertise beyond the Homeric epics include archaic Greek poetry, ancient fable and folklore, Greek art and archaeology and ancient Greek language. Other interests include communication and public outreach in the field of humanities and activism for human and animal rights.
Dr. Martine Diepenbroek
Editor
Martine Diepenbroek is a Dutch Classicist and Ancient Historian who finished a PhD in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol in 2021. She works on secret communication in the ancient world. She is currently working on various publications based on her PhD thesis. The whole thesis will also be turned into a book with Bloomsbury Publishing House (London).
Dr. Lucrezia Sperindio
Editor
Lucrezia is a Teaching Fellow and Sessional Tutor in Latin literature, in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. She has recently completed her doctorate degree in Classics at Warwick with a dissertation entitled ‘Rethinking Horace’s Lyric modus: Horace’s 1-3 and Tragic Choral Lyric’, in which she examines the intertextual dialogue between Horace’s lyric poetry and Graeco-Roman tragic choral lyric. Her current research engages with lyric form and poetics, genre, and intertextuality in Latin poetry of the Augustan age. Her teaching experience ranges from the late Republic to the Trajanic age.
Dr. Joel Gordon
Special Editions Editor
PhD in Classics from the University of Otago, New Zealand. PhD explores ancient conceptions of the underworld in literature and myth and how ‘inconsistencies’ can be resolved holistically via eschatological context. Research interests also include classical reception, in particular gods and heroes in film, comics and gaming.
Dr. Jordon Houston
Editor-at-Large
PhD in Classics from the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Studies in 2021. PhD reconstructs the financial aspects of the organisation of Roman Entertainment (gladiatorial combats, athletics, theatre, and chariot racing) between the first century and third century AD.
Dr. Karolina Frank
Senior Editor
PhD in History from University College London. PhD thesis examines the interweaving of economic and social practices with the art of divination at the oracle of Dodona (Epirus) in the Classical and Hellenistic periods.
Dr. Fabrizio Biglino
Editor
Fabrizio Biglino is currently a researcher at the Universitá degli Studi di Torino; he has completed a PhD in Classics and Ancient History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Between 2016 and 2019 he has taught Roman History at the Department of Classics at Royal Holloway, first as Tutor, then as Visiting Lecturer while, from this year, teaches online Roman History courses at the Instituto Mundo Antigo. His research is focused on the military history of the Roman Republic, in particular the period between the fourth and first centuries BC, the economic impact of the army and military service, the Punic Wars, Roman colonization and movement of people during the Republican period. He is author of several articles on these topics and is currently working on his monograph, The War Economy of the Roman Republic.
Giulia Tonon
Editor
Second Year PhD Candidate in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool. Giulia’s research investigates the phenomena of diglossia and societal bilingualism in the Ptolemaic Period. Her research interests include ancient languages (Egyptian, Greek and Latin), palaeography, epigraphy and multilingualism, with a specific focus on Graeco-Roman Egypt. She is passionate about archaeology and has been involved in numerous excavations across the UK and abroad.
Dr. Guendalina D.M. Taietti
Chief Editor
Honorary Research Fellow and Tutor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Liverpool. Guen's research focuses on Ancient Macedon, Animals and Vegetarianism in Antiquity (Greece and China), and Ancient and Modern Greek Receptions of Alexander the Great. She is passionate about teaching and making Classics accessible to the wider public.
Dr. Nick Cross
Editor
Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean History at the United States Naval Academy. PhD (in History at CUNY) explored the construction of interstate alliances in the archaic and classical Greek periods. Current monograph project is a history of the period between the Athenian Empire and the Second Athenian Confederacy with a focus on Thrasybulus of Steiria. Other research interests include Greek and Latin language and literature, ancient religions, numismatics, epigraphy, and historiography.
Cole Phelps
Editor
MPhil candidate in Classics (Ancient Philosophy) at the University of Cambridge. Current research interests include the metaphysics of mental content in Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia, the role of memory in non-normative cognitive states, and interactions between ancient zoology and medicine.
Dr. Antonino Crisà
Editor
PhD in Archaeology from the University of Leicester (2015), currently Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and Humanities at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, previously Research Fellow at the University of Warwick (2016-19) and Ghent University (2019-22) carrying out his Marie Curie Sklodowska Individual Fellowship on Sicilian antiquities and museums during World War 2. He is an archaeologist, historian, numismatist and classicist with a strong interest in material culture, coin circulation, coin hoards, history of archaeology and collecting, cultural heritage and museum studies.