Biographies:

Jörg Rüpke is Professor of Comparative Religions and Deputy Director of the Max-Weber-Kolleg at the University of Erfurt. He is also a member of the Academia Europaea (London) and of the Scientific Committee of the Collegio San Carlo Foundation in Modena. He was previously member of the National Council of Sciences (Köln). He is visiting professor at several European and American universities and he is editor of the journals „Religion in the Roman Empire“, „Archiv für Religionsgeschichte“ and „Historia Religionum“. His research focuses on the history of religions in classical and late antiquity, with particular attention to the relationship between religious practices and political authorities in Republican and Imperial Rome. Recent publications include: Religious dimensions of the self in the second century AD. (edited by Tübingen 2013); Religion. Antiquity and its legacy (London-New York 2014); On Roman Religion (Ithaca-London 2016); Religious Deviance in the Roman World (Cambridge 2016); Pantheon. Una nuova storia della religione romana  (Turin 2018); Urban Religion: A Historical Approach to Urban Growth and Religious Change (Berlin 2020); Religion and its History: A Critical Inquiry (London).

Alessandra Rolle (1982, Florence) received her PhD in Latin Literature from the University of Florence in 2011. She was a postdoc researcher at the University of Lausanne, and she worked in Pisa, London and Toronto as well. She is currently Maître Assistant at the University of Lausanne and she is author of various publications. In Rome she is conducting a research project that consists in the production of an annotated edition of the surviving fragments of Varro’s Antiquitates rerum divinarum.