Freddy Decreus is a Professor Emeritus at Ghent University, Belgium, by training a classical philologist. Decreus started to work at Ghent University in 1981, where he was responsible for courses in Latin Literature, Literary Theory, Mythology, Comparative Literature and Theatre History (esp. Ritual Theatre). Recent publications include Post- Colonial Perspectives on the Tragic (2004), The Performance of the Comic in Arabic Theatre (2005), Ritual Theatre (2009), Mythology (2009), and The Reception of Classics (2010). His main interest today is the Italian theatre of the Socìetas Rafaello Sanzio and the ritual theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos (2016).