Staff Profiles
Background
Qualifications
- PhD, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (2015)
- Laurea Magistrale, Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia (2011)
- Laurea Triennale, Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia (2008)
Publicatinos
BOOKS
- Timachidas Rhodius (Supplementum Grammaticum Graecum 4), Brill: Leiden, 2020 (pp. XVI 216)
- Shaping the Canons of Ancient Greek Historiography. Imitation, Classicism, and Literary Criticism (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 359), Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2018 (pp. XIV 294)
EDITED BOOKS
- Herodotus – the Most Homeric Historian?, accepted for publication in Histos Supplementary Volumes, forthcoming 2022
- Thucydides in the ‘Age of Extremes’ and Beyond, edited with Luca Iori, to be submitted to the History of Classical Scholarship Supplementary Volume series
- Literary Criticism in Ancient Historiography, edited with Sergio Brillante, to be submitted to Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
- ‘Julian of Ascalon and Papinian on the Urban Landscape’, in D. Mantovani & M. Wibier (eds), Classical Juristic Texts and Patterns of Thought in Late Antiquity, Vol. 2: The Circulation, Use, and Reception of Classical Juristic Literature in Late Antiquity (REDHIS), CUP, 2021 [in print]
- ‘Menaechmus in the Armenian tradition of the Alexander Romance (Addendum to Alexander, Aristotle and Menaechmus: reconsidering the foundation of Alexandria, RicEll 1, 2020, 41-57)’, Ricerche Ellenistiche 2, 2021, 161-162
- ‘Da Alicarnasso a Roma: Dionigi tra retorica e storiografia’, Rivista di Filologia e Istruzione Classica 149, 2021, 199-217
- ‘Condicio optima est ultimi: the concept of historical cycle and Evagrius Scholasticus’ list of ancient historians’, in O. Devillers & B. Battistin Sebastiani (eds), Sources et modèles des historiens anciens, Vol. 2, Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2021, 449-461
- ‘Erodoto tra Powell e Hemmerdinger’, Quaderni di Storia 92, 2020, 125-152
- ‘Alexander, Aristotle and Menaechmus: reconsidering the foundation of Alexandria’, Ricerche Ellenistiche 1, 2020, 41-57
- ‘Γεωνόμοι da Cassio Dione all’Atene del V secolo a.C.’, Athenaeum 108.1, 2020, 58-71
- ‘Solon in Cambridge: An unpublished paper by J. Enoch Powell’, Quaderni di Storia 91, 2020, 219-236
- ‘Herodotus in the theatre in Alexandria? On Athen. 14.620d’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 139, 2019, 83-93
- ‘Misurare la terra: considerazioni sul caso siciliano a partire da Callimaco’, Pallas 109, 2019, 195-213
- ‘Writing, Copying, and Exchanging Books in the First Century BC: Testimonies from Cicero’s Correspondence’, in A. Cohen-Skalli (ed.), Historiens et érudits à leur écritoire. Les œuvres monumentales à Rome entre république et principat, Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2019, 93-111
- ‘Iason’, in F. Montanari, F. Montana & L. Pagani (eds), Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity, 2019, Brill Online: https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/lexicon-of-greek-grammarians-of-antiquity/iason-Iason?s.num=0
- ‘Decreto ateniese per la fondazione di Brea: commento’, AXON 2.2, 2018, 69-82: https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni/riviste/axon/2018/2/decreto-ateniese-per-la-fondazione-di-brea-axon-46/
- ‘A neglected Hesiodic fragment in Pollux’, Mnemosyne 70, 2017, 340-346
- ‘Base di statua da Rodi con citazione di Aristofane’, AXON 1.2, 2017, 215-223: https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni/riviste/axon/2017/2/base-di-statua-da-rodi-con-citazione-di-aristofane/
- (with S. De Vido and S. Palazzo) ‘AXON. A selection of Greek historical inscriptions’, in S. Orlandi, R. Santucci, P.M. Liuzzo & F. Mambrini (eds), Digital and Traditional Epigraphy in Context, International Conference Proceedings, Rome 27-29 January 2016, Rome, 2017, 57-65
- ‘Scylax of Caryanda, Pseudo-Scylax, and the Paris Periplus: reconsidering the ancient tradition of a geographical text’, Mare Nostrum: Studies on the Ancient Mediterranean 7, 2016: https://www.revistas.usp.br/marenostrum/article/view/127958
- ‘Geografia del mondo illirico tra V e IV secolo a.C.’, in Y. Marion & F. Tassaux (eds), Adriatlas et l’histoire de l’espace adriatique du VI s. a.C. au VIII s. p.C. International Conference Proceedings, École française de Rome, 4-6/11/2013, Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2015, 131-148
- ‘Timachidas di Rodi. Introduzione, edizione dei frammenti, traduzione e commento’, Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Lettere s. 5, 6.1, 2014, 113-185
- ‘Timachidas di Rodi e l’Anagraphe di Lindo’, Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Lettere, s. 5, 6.1, 2014, 91-112
- ‘Aristarco ed Erodoto in Stefano di Bisanzio’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 156.2, 2013, 217-221
- ‘Su un frammento di collocazione incerta di Ellanico di Lesbo: FGrHist 4 F 192’, Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d’Histoire Anciennes 85.1, 2011 [issued in 2013], 139-147
- ‘Shrieking like Illyrians: historical geography and the Greek perspective of the Illyrian world in the 5th century BC’, Arheološki vestnik 62, 2011, 289-316
- ‘Magistrati militari in Grecia nord-occidentale? Riflessioni su alcune istituzioni cittadine’, in C. Antonetti (ed.), Lo spazio ionico e le comunità della Grecia nord-occidentale. Territorio, società, istituzioni, Venice, 7-9/01/2010 (Diabaseis 1), Pisa: ETS, 2010, 225-244
BOOK REVIEWS
- A. D. Morrison, Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, Cambridge 2020: History of Humanities [in print]
- S. Rougier-Blanc (ed.), Athénée de Naucratis, Le banquet des savants, livre XIV. Spectacles, chansons, danses, musique et desserts, vols. 1-2, Bordeaux 2018: Classical Review [pre-print]
- S. Hornblower & Ch. Pelling (eds.), Herodotus’ Histories. Book VI, Cambridge 2017: Journal of Hellenic Studies [in print]
- P. Vannicelli, A. Corcella & G. Nenci (eds), Erodoto. Le Storie. Libro VII. Serse e Leonida, Milan 2017: Histos 14, 2020, xl-xlv
- F. Meins, Paradigmatische Geschichte. Wahrheit, Theorie und Methode in den Antiquitates Romanae des Dionysios von Halikarnassos, Stuttgart 2019: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.07.14
- J. Marincola, On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian, London 2017: Histos 13, 2019, lxiii-lxv
- R. Bichler, Historiographie – Ethnographie – Utopie. Gesammelte Schriften IV: Studien zur griechischen Historiographie, ed. by R. Rollinger & K. Ruffing, Wiesbaden 2016: Histos 12, 2018, xi-xv
- J. Priestley & V. Zali (eds), Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond, Leiden-Boston 2016: Lexis 35, 2017, 480-483
- C. Bearzot & F. Landucci (eds), Storie di Atene, storie dei Greci. Studi e ricerche di attidografi, Milan 2010: Klio 94.2, 2012, 516-520
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
- (with C. Antonetti) ‘Epidamnos/Dyrrhachion’, in R. Bagnall, et alii (eds), Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Malden MA, 2013, 2442-2443
- (with C. Antonetti) ‘Skerdilaidas’, in R. Bagnall, et alii (eds), Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Malden MA, 2013, 6275-6276
Last accessed 1 December 2021
Research
Research interests
Ancient Greek historiography, ancient geography, Greek epigraphy, Late antiquity (especially fifth- and sixth-century Constantinople).