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

Sergio Casali, born in Varazze in 1969, attended both the regular and advanced courses at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. With a scholarship from the Normale, he studied at St John’s College, Oxford, during 1992/93. He graduated with a degree in Classical Studies from the University of Pisa in 1993. He became a permanent university researcher at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” in 1998, an associate professor in 2001, and after obtaining the National Scientific Qualification for full professorship in 2013 and 2018, a full professor in 2022.

His main research interests include: Virgil’s Aeneid; the Latin epic tradition from Naevius and Ennius to the Flavian poets; the ancient and modern exegetical tradition of the Aeneid; Ovid; and the reception of classics in Dante. He has authored a commentary on Ovid’s Heroides 9 (Florence, Le Monnier, 1995); one on Virgil’s Aeneid 2 (Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2017; second edition 2019); and a guide to the Aeneid (Rome, Carocci, 2023). He has published 85 articles and book chapters, and about 30 reviews. Additionally, he edited a collection of essays on Servius (with Fabio Stok, Brussels, Collection Latomus, 2008) and one on the tradition of commentaries on Virgil (Berlin/New York, De Gruyter, 2024).

He is currently working on a commentary on Book IV of the Aeneid for Cambridge University Press’s “orange” series. His future projects include a critical edition of Ovid’s Heroides for the “Oxford Classical Texts,” accompanied by a volume of critical-textual commentary.

For his Virgilian studies and the commentary on Book II of the Aeneid, he received the 2019 Alexander G. MacKay Prize for Virgilian Studies from the Virgilian Society (USA) and the 2021 International Vergilius Prize from the Accademia Virgiliana in Mantua.

He has lectured and been invited to conferences at numerous universities in Italy and abroad, including Harvard (four times), Columbia (three times), Virginia (twice), Cambridge (twice), Scuola Normale di Pisa (twice), Bristol, Brown, Chicago, Colorado, Institute of Classical Studies (London), Manchester, Notre Dame, Oxford, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Roma Sapienza, The College of William & Mary, Trinity College (Dublin), UCLA, and Wisconsin.

He is a member of the scientific committee for the journals “Vergilius” (Vergilian Society, USA), “AION (filol.) Annali dell'Università di Napoli 'L'Orientale',” “Classica. Revista brasileira de estudios clásssicos.”