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

Virgil Costa (ORCID: 0000-0003-2444-0687) is full professor of Greek History at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. His main fields of research are fragmentary Greek historiography, Greek cultural history in the Hellenistic period, and the history of the Aegean poleis in the Archaic and Classical periods.In 2005 he published, for the series "The Fragments of Greek Historians," the first of three volumes of a new critical edition, with Italian translation and historical commentary, of the fragments of Philochorus of Athens. The work was awarded the European Union's Culture 2000 prize (see below, no. 8). The first expanded edition of tome 1, devoted to the fragments of the Atthis, appeared in 2007. Tomes II and III, as well as the edition of the remnants of Damaste's historical-geographical work of Sigeo, are at an advanced stage of preparation. Also for the series "The Fragments of Greek Historians," he is working on the edition of the fragments of the historians of Naxos of the Cyclades. He has also worked on the history of the tradition of Greek historiography from late antiquity to the modern age, devoting several studies, in particular, to the figure of Natale Conti (1520-1588) controversial witness of many lost Greek historians. He edited for Brill's New Jacoby the edition, English translation and commentary of some thirty Greek historians from the fifth century B.C. to the Byzantine age. He has published, together with Monica Berti (University of Leipzig), a history of the ancient Library of Alexandria and the proceedings of an international conference on the same subject. He is writing, together with Thomas R. Martin (College of the Holy Cross, Worcester MA), a biography of Demetrius Poliorcetes. Finally, he is preparing a handbook on the history of Greek historiography. Finally, he periodically gives seminars and lectures in Italy and abroad on topics in Greek historiography. He is co-director of the series "The Fragments of Greek Historians"; member of the scientific committee of the series "Researches in Philology, Literature and History" (TORED Editions); member of the scientific committee of the series "TORED Classical Library"; member of the editorial board and editorial coordinator of "Rationes Rerum. Rivista di Filologia e Storia" (editors Leopoldo Gamberale [Philology] and Eugenio Lanzillotta [History]); member of the scientific committee of the series "Studia Hellenistica" (Peeters, Leuven, Belgium); member of the scientific committee of Edizioni Studium (Rome). He is a founding member and member of the steering committee of the international scientific association GAHIA- Geography and Historiography in Antiquity (2014-). He is a founding member and member of the scientific council of the Study Center "Forms of Knowledge in the Ancient World" (http://sapereantico.uniroma2.it/) (2015-). He is a member of the University Quality Presidium and was the coordinator of the PhD program in "Classical Antiquities and their Fortunes. Archaeology, Philology, History" and delegate of the Macroarea of Humanities at the Doctoral Coordination Structure of the University of Rome Tor Vergata (2020-2023). Previously, he was a member of the faculty of the Ph.D.s in "Ancient History" (1998-2012), "Humanistic Studies" (2012-2013) and "Classical Antiquities and their Fortunes. Archaeology, Philology, History" (2014-).