Attilio Mastrocinque, born in Venice 1952. 1981-1987: researcher of Ancient History at the University of Venice. 1987-1995: associated professor of Greek history at the University of Trento. Since 2001: full professor of Roman History at the University of Verona. 1992: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung fellowship. 1993: invited professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure. 2007: invited professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Research Fields: Hellenistic history; Roman history under monarchy and early Republic; religions in Republican Italy and oriental religions in the Roman Empire. Concetta Giuffre Scibona is Associate Professor of History of Religions and Classical Religions in the University of Messina. She has published widely on Religion of the Western Greeks, Female Cults in Greek Religion, and Manichaean Gnosis.