Prof. Lara Pagani

Lara Pagani is Associate Professor in Greek Language and Literature at the University of Genova.

She obtained a PhD in Classics in 2004 and afterwards held research grants at the University of Genova. She succeeded in ASN 2017 (National Scientific Habilitation) for the position of Full Professor in “Classical and Late Antique Philology” and “Greek Language and Literature”.

Her main interests concern ancient Greek scholarship and grammar, Homeric studies, Greek lexicography and the reflection on language in ancient Greece, literary papyrology.

She is co-editor of the encyclopedia Lexicon of Greek Grammarians in Antiquity (LGGA) and of the series Supplementum Grammaticum Graecum (SGG), she is Rédacteur of L’Année Philologique, member of the Scientific committee of the series “Pleiadi” (Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura), scientific adviser of the ERC Consolidator project PURA (PI Olga Tribulato, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia).

She was responsible of a local Unit of a FIRB project - Futuro in ricerca 2012.

She has published around 100 scientific publication, among which a critical edition with commentary of the fragments of Asclepiades of Myrlea (2007).

Prof. Davide Muratore

Ph.D. Alessia Ferreccio

Alessia Ferreccio attained BA in Classics in 2005 at the Università degli Studi di Genova, with a study about the fragments of a lost play of Sophocles (I frammenti della Polissena di Sofocle), and MA in Classics in 2007 at the Università degli Studi di Genova with a thesis entitled Il II libro dei Posthomerica di Quinto Smirneo, supervised by Prof. Franco Montanari.

In 2012 she obtained a PhD in ‘Filologia Classica e sue tradizioni e proiezioni’ (XXIII ciclo) at the Dipartimento di Archeologia e Filologia Classica e loro tradizioni (D.AR.FI.CL.E.T.), Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia of the Università degli Studi di Genova, with a research project about epithets of the gods in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica.

Since 2007 she collaborates on several research projects, e.g. Lessico dei Grammatici Greci Antichi (LGGA) and Words in Progress (WiP), directed by Franco Montanari. She belongs to the editorial office of Centro Italiano dell’Année Philogique (CIAPh) and of two journals, «Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica» and «Trends in Classics».

Currently she has a research fellowship at the Dipartimento di Antichità, Filosofia, Storia (D.A.FI.ST.) of Università degli Studi di Genova.

Among her most important publications, the article Paidophoneus ‘uccisore di figli’, nella poesia postomerica e tardoantica in “RFIC” 139 (2) 2011, pp. 413-421, and the book Commento al libro II dei Posthomerica di Quinto Smirneo (Pleiadi, 18). Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura 2014, pp. XXXVII, 414. (ISBN 978-88-6372-717-3).

Prof.ssa Francesca Maltomini

Francesca Maltomini studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, obtaining in 2005 a PhD in philological, linguistic and ancient historical disciplines. She has been Postdoctoral fellow at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). She completed her training in the papyrological field at the Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli» of Florence, and is currently Associate Professor of Papyrology at the University of Florence.

Her researches are mainly focused on the ancient and medieval tradition of corpora of epigrammatic and gnomic literature: she has published the volume Tradizione antologica dell'epigramma greco. Le Sillogi Minori di età bizantina e umanistica (2008) and contributed to the edition of book X of teh Greek Anthology in the Collection Budé (2011) and to the editio princeps of the Vienna epigram papyrus (CPR XXXIII, 2015). She has also published first editions and revisions of documentary and literary papyri and ostraca belonging to Italian and foreign collections. Since 2013 she is one of the editors of the Papiri della Società Italiana series. Since 2015 she is responsible for the team in charge of the updating of the papyrological lexicon in WiP-Words in Progress.

Dott.ssa Marzia D’Angelo

Marzia D’Angelo obtained in February 2017 a MA Degree in Classics at the University of Naples “Federico II”, discussing a thesis in Herculaneum Papyrology entitled “PHerc. 89 ([Filodemo], [Gli dèi])”.

She collaborated with CISPE (Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi ‘Marcello Gigante’) on the updating project of Chartes (IT Catalogue of Herculaneum papyri) and on the typing project of the Herculaneum texts for the online Thesaurus Herculanensium Voluminum. Since October 2017 she’s PhD in Classical Studies and Archaeology at University of Pisa.

Since September 1st she has a grant at the Department of Lettere e Filosofia (DILEF) of the University of Firenze and collaborates with WiP - Words in Progress for the updating of the lexicon of documentary papyri.

Dott. Roberto Mascellari

Roberto Mascellari graduated from the Università degli Studi di Firenze in 2008 with an M.A. in Classics and in 2012 with a Ph.D. in Ancient History.

He held a Postdoc Research Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley in 2012-2013, and is currently a Research Fellow at the Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli», Università degli Studi di Firenze. His research interests focus on documentary papyrology, the administration of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, the language of legal documents, Greek-Latin bilingual interference.

He has published editions of Greek documentary texts and contributions on the language of the papyri and the administrative procedures of the Roman province of Egypt. He is currently finishing a book on the language of petitions and is working on the edition of papyri from the Berkeley and Florence collections.

Roberta Carlesimo

Roberta Carlesimo graduated in Classics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in March 2015.

In 2017 she obtained a Greek Paleography Diploma from the Vatican School of Palaeography, Diplomatics and Archives Administration.

In February 2019 she earned a PhD in Storia, Culture e Saperi dell’Europa Mediterranea dall’Antichità all’Età Contemporanea (History, Culture, and Knowledge in Mediterranean Europe from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age) at the University of Basilicata, with a thesis in Papyrology entitled Il testo di Menandro, verso un riesame critico delle fonti (Menander’s Text: Toward a Critical Reassessment of the Sources).

Her main research interests are Papyrology, Greek Palaeography and Classical and Hellenistic Theatre.

She has authored several papers on the papyrus tradition of Menander, including P.Oxy. LX 4025 e P.Oxy. LXXIX 5199 ricongiunti. Menandro, Misoumenos, «ZPE» CCVIII (2018) 67-70 e P.Harr. II 172: un nuovo frammento del Kolax di Menandro? (forthcoming in ZPE).

Since 10 June, at the Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli», she has been collaborating with the WiP– Words in Progress project, for the updating of the documentary papyri lexicon.

Ambra Tocco

Ambra Tocco obtained a Master Degree in Classics at the University of Genoa in 2015, discussing a thesis entitled Minor music theorists in Porphyry’s Commentary on Ptolemy’s Harmonics.

In May 2019 she earned a PhD in Classical Philology with a dissertation entitled Musical history and historiography within the early Peripatos.

She is currently a Research Fellow affiliated to the Antiquity, History and Philosophy Department (DAFIST) of the University of Genova and a collaborator in WiP - Words in Progress, starting from September 2019. Within this project, her specific task is the study of ancient Greek musical vocabulary.

Her main research interest is ancient Greek music, with a focus on ancient musical theory and history, also in connection with the overall frame of ancient Greek scholarship.

Her present publications consist of two journal articles and a book chapter; critical editions with Italian translation and commentary of a number of minor music theorists are in preparation for the Supplementum Grammaticum Graecum (SGG), as well as other fragmentary authors to be published with English translation and commentary in Die Fragmente Der Griechischen Historiker – vol. IV B. She is also a collaborator in the Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity (LGGA) and the Italian center of the Année Philologique (CIAPh). She is affiliated to MOISA – International Society for the Study of Ancient Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage.

Valeria Bacigalupo

Valeria Bacigalupo obtained a Master degree in Classics at the University of Genova in 2017, discussing a thesis entitled Fragments of Peripatetic philosophers between Peripatos and Alexandria.

In July 2021 she earned a PhD in Classical and Modern Literature and Culture (curriculum Classical Philology) with a joint degree between the University of Genova and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, with a dissertation entitled I frammenti del grammatico Pio. Edizione, traduzione e commento.

She is currently a Research Fellow affiliated to the Antiquity, Philosophy and History Department (DAFIST) of the University of Genova and a collaborator in WiP - Words in Progress, starting from October 2021. She collaborates also with the Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity (LGGA) and with the Centro Italiano dell'Année Philologique (CIAPh).

Her main research interests are ancient Greek scholarship and grammar, Homeric studies and Greek lexicography.

Her publications consist of two journal articles (Dicearco, Aristarco e i pronomi riflessivi, "RFIC" 146 [2018], 98-128; Pio, Porfirio o Porfirione? Nota a Serv. Aen. 5, 735, "Eikasmos" 31 [2020], 225-240) and a book chapter (La Luna, i Campi Elisi e le Isole dei Beati, in Fly me to the Moon. La luna nell'immaginario umano. Proceedings of the international conference [Genoa, 12-13 December 2019], Genoa, forthcoming). A critical edition with Italian translation and commentary of the fragments of the grammarian Pius is in preparation for the Supplementum Grammaticum Graecum (SGG).