Ilaria Ramelli

Education

She earned two MAs (Classics with specialization in Early Christianity and Philosophy with specialization in History).^[when?] She also holds a PhD (Classics and Early Christianity, 2000), a Doctorate honoris causa, a postdoctorate (Late Antiquity and Religion), and some Habilitations to Full Professor - Ordinarius (History of Philosophy, Classics, Greek Language and Literature).^[5][6]

As author or co-author

• I romanzi antichi e il Cristianesimo: contesto e contatti, preface by B.P. Reardon, Madrid, Signifer 2001; Cascade Books, 2012. ISBN 978-1-62032-032-7.^[14]
• Le nozze di Filologia e Mercurio, (Il Pensiero occidentale). Bompiani, 2001.^[15][16][17]
• Allegoria, vol. I, L'età classica, Milan: Vita e Pensiero 2004, Temi metafisici e problemi del pensiero antico Series. ISBN 978-88-343-5007-2.
• Il βασιλεύς come νόμος ἔμψυχος tra diritto naturale e diritto divino: spunti platonici del concetto e sviluppi di età imperiale e tardoantica (Marcello Gigante International Classics Prize, 2006), Naples: Bibliopolis, 2006, Series: Memoirs of the Italian Institute of Philosophical Studies 34. ISBN 88-7088-528-3.^[18]
• Hierocles the Stoic: elements of ethics, fragments and excerpts. Brill - Society of Biblical Literature, 2009.^[19][20][21]
• Terms for eternity: Aiônios and aídios in classical and Christian texts. Gorgias Press, 2013;^[22][23][24] Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.
• The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament To Eriugena. Brill, 2013.^[25]
  The book was reviewed, e.g., in Theological Studies,^[26] Journal of Early Christian History,^[27] The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition.^[28] and The Journal of Theological Studies.^[29]
• Tempo ed eternità in età antica e patristica: filosofia greca, ebraismo e cristianesimo, Assisi: Cittadella, 2015. ISBN 978-88-308-1412-7.
• Evagrius’ Kephalaia Gnostika, Leiden-Atlanta: Brill-SBL, 2015. Pp. lxxxviii + 434. ISBN 1-62837-041-6 (hardback); ISBN 1-62837-039-4 (paperback)
• Social justice and the legitimacy of slavery: The role of philosophical asceticism from ancient Judaism to late antiquity. Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0-19-877727-4.^[30][31][32]
• A Larger Hope? 1, prefaced by Richard Bauckham, Cascade Books, 2019.^[33]
• Bardaisan of Edessa: A Reassessment of the Evidence and a New Interpretation, Gorgias 2009; De Gruyter 2019.
• Patterns of Women’s Leadership in Ancient Christianity, co-edited, Oxford University Press, 2021.
• Eriugena’s Christian Neoplatonism and its Sources in Patristic and Ancient Philosophy, directed, Leuven: Peeters, 2021.^[34]
• Origen, the Philosophical Theologian: Trinity, Christology, and Philosophy-Theology Relation Selected Studies/Kleine Schriften, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025.

As contributor

• "Unconditional Forgiveness in Christianity? Some reflections on ancient Christian sources and practices," in The Ethics of Forgiveness: A Collection of Essays (Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory). Routledge, 2011.^[35][36][37]
• "The Universal and Eternal Validity of Jesus' Priestly Sacrifice: The Epistle to the Hebrews in Support of Origen's Theory of Apokatastasis," in A Cloud of Witnesses: The Theology of Hebrews in its Ancient Contexts, edited by Richard Bauckham et al, Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2008.^[38][39]
• "Divine Power in Origen of Alexandria: Sources and Aftermath," in Divine Powers in Late Antiquity, eds. Anna Marmodoro and Irini Fotini Viltanioti, Oxford: OUP, 2017, 177-198. ISBN 978-0-19-876720-6.
• "Gregory of Nyssa on the Soul (and the Restoration): From Plato to Origen," in Exploring Gregory of Nyssa: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, eds Anna Marmodoro and Neil McLynn, Oxford: OUP, 2018, 110-141. ISBN 978-0-19-882642-2.
• "Origen," in A History of Mind and Body in Late Antiquity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 245-266. ISBN 978-1-107-18121-2.
• "Epicureanism and Early Christianity," in Oxford Handbook to Epicurus and Epicureanism, ed. Phillip Mitsis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, 582-612. ISBN 978-0-19-974421-3.
• "Origen, Evagrius, and Dionysius," in Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite, ed. Mark Edwards, Dimitrios Pallis, and Georgios Steiris, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 94-108. ISBN 978-0-19-881079-7

As editor

• Musonio Rufo, Diatribe, frammenti e testimonianze, Milan: Bompiani, 2001. Pp. 357. ISBN 978-88-452-9099-2.
• Anneo Cornuto, Compendio di teologia greca, Milan: Bompiani, 2003, Il Pensiero Occidentale. Pp. 607. ISBN 88-452-9249-5.
• Diogene Laerzio, Vite e dottrine dei più celebri filosofi, co-edited, Milan: Bompiani, 2005, Il Pensiero Occidentale. ISBN 88-452-3301-4.
• Gregorio di Nissa, sull'Anima e la Resurrezione, testo greco a fronte. Milan: Bompiani, 2007.^[40][41][42]
• Eschilo: Tutti i Frammenti con la Prima Traduzione degli Scolii Antichi e Bizantini, Milan: Bompiani, 2009, Il Pensiero Occidentale. Pp. 2061. ISBN 978-88-452-6289-0.
• Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: The Role of Religion in Shaping Narrative Forms, edited by Ilaria Ramelli and Judith Perkins, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015. ISBN 978-3-16-152033-4
• Evagrius, the Cappadocians, and Neoplatonism, edited volume, Leuven: Peeters 2017.
• Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature - Volume One: To 600 CE, co-edited, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.
• T&T Clark Handbook to the Early Church, co-edited, London: T&T Clark Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
• Lovers of the Soul, Lovers of the Body. Philosophical and Religious Perspectives in Late Antiquity, Harvard University Press, 2022.