Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui is Professor of Greek Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid, Graduate in Classical Philology and Law, Doctor in Classical Philology and History of Religions, and trained as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute, Harvard, Oxford (Christ Church), Zurich and the Royal College of Spain in Bologna. His fields of study are Greek literature and religion (especially Homer and Orphism) and the Christian reception of Greek culture. He has also worked on aspects of Hellenism in Spanish authors of the 16th and 17th centuries, and on the editing and translation of ancient texts.

He has directed three research projects and is the author, among others, of the books Tradición órfica y cristianismo antiguo (2007, translated into English as Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 2010 Política de Aristóteles de Juan Ginés de Sepúveda (2013), Sentencias de Focílides (2018), y Catábasis: el viaje infernal en la antigüedad (2023); editor of the collective volumes Tracing Orpheus (2011), Redefining Dionysos (2013), and Les dieux d'Homère II: Anthropomorphismes (2019). He is also author of a hundred articles and chapters on philosophy, literature, politics and religion of Ancient Greece, and the reception of classical culture in early Christianity and in modernity. He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge, UK.

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