Camilla Basile is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville), currently finishing a dissertation on religious multiculturalism in Apollonius’ Argonautica. Before coming to Virginia, she graduated in Classics from the University of Edinburgh with a thesis on religious language in Euripides’ Hippolytus. Born and raised in L’Aquila (Italy), Camilla’s personal and professional life spans across Europe and the States.

• University of Virginia, Charlottesville (current);

• University of Edinburgh (graduated in 2019)

Camilla’s current research project focuses on investigating the structure of Apollonius’ sacred landscape from a multicultural perspective. Her methodological approach encompasses the study of space, Greek and non-Greek religion and ritual, and multicultural societies. Her most recent publication titled “Apollonius’ Μοῦσαι ὑποφήτορες and the Interpretation of the Egyptian Tradition” [forthcoming] engages with the long-standing debate about the Muses’ characterization in the Argonautica, arguing that they act as interpreters of both Greek and non-Greek knowledge on behalf of the Hellenistic poet. Camilla is also interested in the function of religious institutions, particularly oracular shrines as centers of multicultural interchange in the cosmopolitan society of Ptolemaic Egypt

Hellenistic literature;
- Ancient Greek and non-Greek, Mediterranean religions, especially in Hellenistic societies and texts;
- Multiculturalism in the Hellenistic period