PhD in CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY AND ITS RECEPTION: ARCHAEOLOGY,
PHILOLOGY, HISTORY

I studied at the Universities of Bologna and Rome “Tor Vergata”.

From 1 November 1997 to 31 October 2001 at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” as assistant profrssor in the scientific disciplinary sector of Classical Philology; from 1 November 2001 to 31 March 2022 at the same Faculty as associate professor of the scientific disciplinary sector Greek language and literature; from 1 April 2022 at the Department of Literary, Philosophical Studies and History of Art of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” as full professor of the scientific disciplinary sector Greek Language and Literature.

From the academic year From 1998/1999 to today I have taught History of the Greek language, Greek linguistics, Classical philology, Greek literature for the master's degree course, Greek literature for the first level degree course.

I was part of the local research unit of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” for the following co-financed research of national interest (COFIN, then PRIN): “Literature and reflection on literature” (1997-1999, 1999-2001); «Hellenistic culture. The book, the literary work, ancient exegesis” (2001-2003); “Hellenistic culture. Persistence, innovation, transmission” (2003-2005); “Hellenistic literature between production and reception: texts and contexts” (2005-2007); “Hellenistic culture and classical tradition. Philology, literature, philosophy, science” (2007-2009); “Transmission of the ancient: literary codification, manuscript tradition, reception” (2010-2011). I am part of the local research unit of the University of Pavia for co-financed research of national interest (PRIN): “ParaText – Tuning a prototype tool for the hypertext representation and the refined historical and typological understanding of the relationship between literary text and exegetical paratext in the manuscript transmission of ancient Greek poetry” (Scientific Coordinator Prof. Fausto Montana), admitted to funding with Directorial Decree no. 1012 of 06 July 2023.

I spoke at the III International Colloquium of Greek Dialectology (Naples-Ischia 1996), at the International Colloquium “Problems and perspectives of research on Hellenistic literature” (Rome 1997), at the International Conference “Indoevropejskoe jazykoznanie i klassičeskaja filologija” (S. Petersburg 2007) , at the International Study Conference “Epic Metamorphoses. Research perspectives on Greek and Roman epillium” (Rome 2013) and at the National Conferences “Literature and reflection on literature in classical culture” (Pisa 1999), “Hellenistic culture. The book, the literary work, ancient exegesis” (Rome 2003), “Hellenistic culture. Persistence, innovation, transmission” (Rome 2005).

I have held lectures and seminars at the Universities of Roma Tre, Cassino, Jena, Verona, Venice, Urbino and Salamanca.

I am co-editor of the review “Seminari Romani di Cultura greca”. I am a member of the scientific committee of the review “Giornale Italiano di Filologia”. I am editor the series “I frammenti dei tragici greci minori” (Edizioni TORED).

I am responsible and member of the scientific committee of the project “I Carmina Epigraphica Graeca di Peter Allan Hansen: un supplemento online (CEGS) (https://ceg-supplementum.uniroma2.it/).

Since the academic year 2000/2001 I have been a member of the Teaching Board of the Doctorate in “Antichità classiche e loro fortuna”, now Dottorato in “Antichità classiche e loro fortuna: Archeologia, Filologia, Storia”, with administrative headquarters in the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Dipartimento di Studi letterari, filosofici e di Storia dell’arte). In this role I supervised fourteen PhD theses as a tutor. I am currently tutoring seven of them.