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Irene Salvo is Research Associate at the Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany, holding a postdoctoral position within the project ‘Enlightened Men – Superstitious Women? Religion, Education and Stereotypes of Gender in Classical Athens.’ From 2013 to 2015, she was the Gerda Henkel Scholar in Ancient History at the Royal Holloway, University of London, U.K. Her main research interest is the relationship between gender and religion from the evidence of Greek inscriptions of religious interest, such as curse tablets, oracle enquiries, ‘confession inscriptions,’ and healing miracle stories. She has published various articles on Greek social and cultural history, in particular on Greek epigraphy, pollution and purification, and emotions.