Zara Martirosova Torlone is Professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures and a member of the Core Faculty at the Havighurst Center for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at Miami University (Ohio). She received her B.A. in Classical Philology from Moscow University in Russia and her Ph.D. in Classics from Columbia University in New York. She is the author of Russia and the Classics: Poetry’s Foreign Muse (2009), Latin Love Poetry (2014), and Vergil in Russia: National Identity and Classical Reception (2015). She co-edited the volume Virgil’s Translators, with two of her own contributions (2018), which was awarded the 2020 McKay prize from the Vergilian Society. Her current book project is entitled Shapes of Exile: Ovid in Russian Literary Imagination. Giampiero Scafoglio is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Nice-Côte d’Azur and Senior Researcher in the Research Center “CEPAM UMR 7264” belonging to CNRS. He works on Greek and Latin epics, Roman archaic tragedy, poetry and culture of Late Antiquity (especially Ausonius and the authors of Vandal Africa), and reception of classics in Italian literature (mainly Dante and Boccaccio). Among his books: Ajax. Un héros qui vient de loin (Amsterdam, 2017, republished in open access in the Harvard collection “Classical Continuum”) and Andromaque dans la poésie latine. Femme guerrière et mater dolorosa (Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2026). Contributors are:Giancarlo Abbamonte, Suzanne Adema, Alessandro Barchiesi, Giandamiano Bovi, Jermaine Bryant, Diederik Burgersdijk, Celia Campbell, Sergio Casali, Moa Ekbom, Debra Freas, Muriel Lafond, Patrick Lake, Sunju Li, Carlos Mariscal de Gante, Alicia Matz, Giampiero Scafoglio, Fabio Stok, Richard F. Thomas, Zara Torlone, Cristalle Watson, Barbara Weiden Boyd, Étienne Wolff, Antonio Ziosi.

Zara Martirosova Torlone is Professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures and a member of the Core Faculty at the Havighurst Center for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at Miami University (Ohio). She received her B.A. in Classical Philology from Moscow University in Russia and her Ph.D. in Classics from Columbia University in New York. She is the author of Russia and the Classics: Poetry’s Foreign Muse (2009), Latin Love Poetry (2014), and Vergil in Russia: National Identity and Classical Reception (2015). She co-edited the volume Virgil’s Translators, with two of her own contributions (2018), which was awarded the 2020 McKay prize from the Vergilian Society. Her current book project is entitled Shapes of Exile: Ovid in Russian Literary Imagination. Giampiero Scafoglio is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Nice-Côte d’Azur and Senior Researcher in the Research Center “CEPAM UMR 7264” belonging to CNRS. He works on Greek and Latin epics, Roman archaic tragedy, poetry and culture of Late Antiquity (especially Ausonius and the authors of Vandal Africa), and reception of classics in Italian literature (mainly Dante and Boccaccio). Among his books: Ajax. Un héros qui vient de loin (Amsterdam, 2017, republished in open access in the Harvard collection “Classical Continuum”) and Andromaque dans la poésie latine. Femme guerrière et mater dolorosa (Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2026). Contributors are:Giancarlo Abbamonte, Suzanne Adema, Alessandro Barchiesi, Giandamiano Bovi, Jermaine Bryant, Diederik Burgersdijk, Celia Campbell, Sergio Casali, Moa Ekbom, Debra Freas, Muriel Lafond, Patrick Lake, Sunju Li, Carlos Mariscal de Gante, Alicia Matz, Giampiero Scafoglio, Fabio Stok, Richard F. Thomas, Zara Torlone, Cristalle Watson, Barbara Weiden Boyd, Étienne Wolff, Antonio Ziosi.