Editorial Team

Martina Adami: After my classical high school diploma at ‘Walther von der Vogelweide’ I studied classical philology, literature and art history at the University of Innsbruck and graduated with a thesis on ‘The Great Pan is Dead! Studies on the Reception of Pan in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’.

For more than twenty years I taught German, Latin and history at a Bolzano’s secondary school, at the same time I worked as the director of the school library and as a tutor for future teachers (in training at the University of Innsbruck); from 2003 to 2009 I managed the only association of secondary and high school teachers in the province of Bolzano (ASM). I have worked almost from the beginning of my working career until today with various institutions that organise teacher training. From 2009 until today I have worked as a headmaster, first at a scientific high school in Bruneck/Brunico, from 2010 onwards at the classical, linguistic, artistic and musical high school ‘Walther von der Vogelweide’ in Bozen/Bolzano. For more than ten years, I have also collaborated with the universities of Innsbruck and Bolzano/Brixen with different assignments for the training of future teachers (lecturing in various courses on oral and written language teaching). I have published several books and essays mainly on the didactics of Latin and the didactics of writing.

Born in 1962, studied Latin, Greek, German, and Spanish at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, PhD in 1993 on Homer's Odyssey, since 1993 lecturer in subject didactics at KF-University Graz, since 1985 teacher at the Bundesgymnasium Rein near Graz, since 2011 headmistress at BG Rein, 2014 to 2023 president of SODALITAS, the association of Latin teachers and ancient historians in Austria, 1996 to 2023 co-editor of the journal IANUS, collaborator in several textbook commissions, involved in the creation of exam tasks for the central written Matura, textbook author.

Emanuele Lelli teaches Greek and Latin at the Tasso High School in Rome and collaborates with Sapienza University.
He is a scholar of Hellenistic poetry and ancient scientific and technical literature, the paremiographic tradition and ancient and modern popular culture (Folklore antico e moderno, Pisa-Roma 2014; Sud antico, Milano 2016; Pastori antichi e moderni, Hildesheim 2017). He has for many years coordinated groups of young scholars in publishing initiatives on the ancient world (Quintus of Smyrna, The sequel to the Iliad; Ditti of Crete, The Other Iliad; Erasmus of Rotterdam, Adages; Plutarch, All the Moralia; Greek Epitaphs). He is coordinating a Dictionary of the Popular Culture of the Ancients.

Rainer Weissengruber was born on July 23, 1959, in Linz (Austria). He completed his studies in Classical Philology (Latin and Greek) and Romance Studies (French, Italian, and Portuguese) at the University of Salzburg and obtained a doctorate in Classical Philology with a dissertation on Late Latin and Early Medieval Latinity between Italy and Central Europe.

For more than 40 years, he has been teaching Latin, Greek, and French at a private grammar school in Austria and was also a long-time lecturer for "Latin for Theologians" at the Catholic-Theological Private University in Linz.

He has also been active in contemporary literature as well as being published in the print media in Austria and Italy.

In 1998, together with Italian colleagues, he founded the "CLE-Centrum Latinitatis Europae," based in Aquileia (Friuli), which has since continuously developed as an organization dedicated to classical languages and cultures in Italy and beyond.

He is also a co-founder of the "Diotima Society" in Milan and has been involved in the academic development of the "Valente Academy – 3H: Homo. Humus. Humanitas" (Milan) since its founding.

Rainer Weissengruber has been active at the "Academia Didactica Athesina" (Bolzano) for many years. Moreover, he serves as Vice President at the "Centro Internazionale di Studi Monastici," based in Cividale del Friuli.