Artemis and Diana in Ancient Greece and Italy

Giovanni Casadio is Professor of History of Religions at the University of Salerno, Italy. He is associate editor of the second edition of Eliade’s Encyclopedia of Religion (2005), and served as Co-Director of Symposia Cumana (2002-2012). His publications include the books Storia del culto di Dioniso in Argolide (1994); Vie gnostiche all’immortalità (1997); Il vino dell’anima (1999); Ugo Bianchi: Una vita per la storia delle religioni (2002); Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia (2009); and Lo sciamanesimo prima e dopo Mircea Eliade (2014).Patricia A. Johnston is Professor of Classics at Brandeis University, USA. Her publications include Hera and Juno (2017); The Age of Augustus (2016); The Role of Animals in Ancient Religion and Myth (2016); Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia (2009); Cultural Responses to the Volcanic Landscape (2005); Vergil, Philodemus and the Augustans (2004); Traditio: An Introduction to the Latin Language and Its Influence (1988, 1999, 2013); and Vergil’s Agricultural Golden Age: A Study of the Georgics (1980).