Irene Salvo is a Lecturer in Ancient Greek History at the University of Verona. She gained her PhD at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), after graduating from the same institution. Her area of expertise is the cultural history of the Ancient Mediterranean, with a focus on religion, material culture, and cognitive psychology. Her publications investigate gender and queerness, minds and bodies in magic, health and healing rituals, emotion and embodied cognition. She has been a LGBT+ activist since many years, promoting the visibility of queer identities in the field of Classics and Ancient History as well as harnessing the power of Greek and Latin sources to fight homo-transphobia through education today.