Mapping the History of Greek Literary History

Date

May 21 - 23 2026

Time

5:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Labels

Satellite Event

Location

Auditorium I Aristotle University, Research Dissemination Center
Auditorium I Aristotle University, Research Dissemination Center
September 3rd Avenue, University Campus, Thessaloniki 546 36
Website
https://kedea.rc.auth.gr/
Phone
2310 994013

The conference explores the (early) history of literary histories of Classical Greek
literature, across different periods and geographical locations.

Irene de Jong starts the conference off by reflecting on the importance of (Greek)
literary history as an object of scholarly research. The rest of Panel 1 focuses on
Greek literary history in antiquity itself: James Porter on the Cynics as a beginning
without a known beginning and Stavros Tsitsiridis on the absence of such literary
history in ancient Greece; Roberto Nicolai on the ancient Greek versus Roman
literary historical contribution.

Following a loose chronological order, in Panel 2 Casper de Jonge explores how
Dionysius of Halicarnassus produced Greek literary history for an Augustan Roman
audience, while Carlotta Santini presents on its evolution through Friedrich Nietzche.
Also along the lines of German reception, in Panel 3 Margalit Finkelberg and
Constanze Güthenke consider 19 th -century Germany’s literary-historical output
through the lens of a historical metanarrative and the first German literary histories
respectively.

Subsequent panels enter more contemporary territory and are geographically
structured. In Panel 4, Richard Hunter looks back on the forty-year-old Cambridge
History of Classical Literature, while Ioanna Karamanou and Ioannis Konstantakos
concentrate on modern Greek outputs, the former on the agenda of the first literary
histories produced in the modern Greek state and the latter on their 20 th -century
counterparts.

Panel 5 divides its interest between Italy and France: Greek literary histories issued
in Italy are studied by Carlo Franco (with an emphasis on the 19 th century) and
Maurizio Sonnino (construing Gennaro Perrotta’s work as a balance of opposites);
their French-produced equivalents are the object of Laurent Pernot’s talk.
Two ethnic traditions as producers of Greek literary histories dominate Panel 6 as
well: the beginnings of Russian outputs are traced by Judith Kalb and 19 th -century
Hispanic textbooks (from Braulio Foz to Otfried Müller) by Francisco García-Jurado.

Lastly, Panel 7 is situated in the Slavic world. Poland is the object of Gościwit
Malinowski (specifically the earliest such work conducted in the country) and Maciej
Junkiert (relevant monographs by Groddeck, Węclewski, Sinko). Olesia Lazer-Pankiv
and Oleksandr Levko end the conference with a presentation on the trends of Greek
literary histories issued in 19 th – and 20 th -century Ukr

Who the
Speakers are:

Speakers

  • Olesia Lazer-Pankiv
    Olesia Lazer-Pankiv
    Associate Professor at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine)

    Olesia Lazer-Pankiv (PhD in Classical Philology, 2008) is associate professor at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine). The topic of her PhD research was Archaisating tendencies in the language of Greek historiography of II-III AD. Her scientific interests as of recent lie predominantly in the Ancient paroemiology, history of classical philology, methodology of teaching Classical languages, and in the reception of the antiquity within the European
    linguaculture. Her recent publications include the Ancient Greek in Tables (Phonetics. Morphology, 2018; Simple Sentence Syntax, 2023), ΠΑΡΟΙΜΙΑΙ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑΙ: Ancient Greek proverbs and sayings (2015), Latin language and professional terminology: A textbook for students of medical specialties (2021), Latin for Medical Students (Exercise Book, 2021; Teacher’s Guide, 2021), as well as over fifty scholarly articles on various topics in Philologist, Sustainable Multilingualism, Boletim De Estudos Clássicos, Acta Linguistica Lithuanica, Wisdom etc. She is a co-author of Multilingual legal reference dictionary (2012) and Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Classical Languages (2015, 2017). She is currently Managing Editor of the Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Literary studies. Linguistics. Folklore Studies.

  • Stavros Tsitsiridis
    Stavros Tsitsiridis
    Professor of Ancient Greek Philology and Ancient Theatre at the University of Patras

    Stavros Tsitsiridis was born in Rethymno and studied Classical Philology at the University of Crete. He continued his studies with a scholarship from the German government at the University of Cologne, where he earned his PhD in 1995. He has taught at the University of Cyprus, Saarland University, and the University of Patras, where he currently serves as Professor of Ancient Greek Philology and Ancient Theatre. He is the director of the Graduate Program in Ancient Theatre and of the Institute of Ancient Theatre at the University of Patras. He also directs the international scholarly journal Logeion/Λογείον, published by the University of Crete Press. His research interests focus on Plato, Aristotle’s Poetics, the Peripatetic philosophers, and Ancient Theatre in its full scope.

  • Maurizio Sonnino
    Maurizio Sonnino
    Associate Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Sapienza, University of Rome

    Maurizio Sonnino (Rome, 1971) is Associate Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Sapienza, University of Rome. He studied at and graduated from Sapienza, University of Rome with a Thesis on Greek Literature (Tutor: Prof. Luigi Enrico Rossi). After his first PhD in “Filologia e Storia del Mondo Classico” (Università Statale di Milano, 1999), he was ‘visiting researcher’ at the Department of Classics of the University of Nottingham (September-October 1999). After having passed the “concorso ordinario per esami e titoli a cattedre nelle scuole e istituti statali di istruzione secondaria” in 2001, he taught Greek and Latin Language and Literature at the Secondary School from September 2000 to December 2010 (with a leave for studies from November 2006 to August 2009). In 2010 he gained a second PhD in Civiltà e Tradizione Greca e Romana (Università di RomaTre). Since December 2010 he was first ‘Ricercatore’ (Research Fellow) and ‘Professore Aggregato’ (Lecturer), then Associate Professor at the Department of “Scienze dell’Antichità” at Sapienza, University of Rome, the institutional position he is currently holding. He is member of the Editorial Staff of the Review “Seminari Romani di cultura greca”. His interests focus on Greek Drama, with particular attention for plays discovered on papyrus finds and, in general, for Aristophanes, Euripides, and the fragmentary plays of comic poets (especially Eupolis). He is interested in the History of Classical Scholarship. He edited the editio princeps of Michel’Angelo Giacomelli’s XVIII cent. manuscript containing the most ancient Italian translation with philological commentary of four comedies of Aristophanes. In past times, he translated some latin scientific works of the XVI-XVIIth cent. by Jacques Besson, Athanasius Kircher, and Kaspar Schott.

  • Carlotta Santini
    Carlotta Santini
    Member of the directive board of the Nietzsche Gesellschaft

    Carlotta Santini received her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Paris IV, Sorbonne with a thesis on Friedrich Nietzsche’s Philological Lectures. She has since worked in France (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), in the United States (Princeton University) and in Germany (Centre Marc Bloch, Technische Universitaet). Her main field of research is German Culture between 18th and 20th century, with a specific focus on the reception of Antiquity. She is member of the directive board of the Nietzsche Gesellschaft and she is author of several publications in international peer-reviewed journals. Among her last publications: Friedrich Nietzsche, Le cas Homère, ed. Carlotta Santini, with a postface of Pierre-Judet de La Combe, Editions de l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris 2017.

  • Roberto Nicolai
    Roberto Nicolai
    Professor of Greek Literature at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Rome “La Sapienza.”

    Roberto Nicolai studied at the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” earning his degree in 1983; he completed a specialization at the Special School for Archivists and Librarians in 1986 as a curator of manuscripts, and received his PhD in 1990. In 1994 and 1995 he was a contract professor of the History of the Greek Language at the University of Cassino. From 1995 to 1998 he was a research fellow in the Department of Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” From 1998 to 2001 he served as Associate Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Sassari, and in November 2001 he became Full Professor of Greek Literature at the same university. Since November 2006 he has been Professor of Greek Literature at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” From December 2008 to October 2010 he served as Dean of the Faculty. He is the author of numerous contributions on Greek historical and geographical literature. In 1992 he published Historiography in Ancient Education, and in 1998 he edited an Italian translation of Polybius. In 2004 he published Studies on Isocrates. He collaborated on Greek Literature by L. E. Rossi and was a member of the scientific editorial board of the Horatian Encyclopedia. He is the director of the “Roman Seminars on Greek Culture” and a member of the scientific committees of the journals Storiografia and Histos.

  • James I. Porter
    James I. Porter
    Irving Stone Professor in Literature and Distinguished Professor in Rhetoric

    James I. Porter is Irving Stone Professor in Literature and Distinguished Professor in Rhetoric. His teaching and research has followed a few different trajectories. One is a study of Nietzsche’s thought, early and late (Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future and The Invention of Dionysus: An Essay on ‘The Birth of Tragedy’ (both Stanford University Press, 2000). Another is a study of models of aesthetic sensation, perception, and experience in ancient Greece and Rome, which I explored in The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece: Matter, Sensation, and Experience (Cambridge University Press, 2010; pbk. 2016). A continuation of this inquiry is The Sublime in Antiquity (Cambridge University Press, 2016; pbk. 2020), which received the C. J. Goodwin Award of Merit from The Society for Classical Studies (2017). A further strand is Jewish literary and critical thought in authors from Spinoza to Freud, Adorno, and Arendt. His most recent book is Homer: The Very Idea (University of Chicago Press, 2021; pbk. 2023), which captures some of his interest in classical reception studies. He is co-editor of the preeminent series in this field, “Classical Presences” (Oxford University Press, 2005– ). Member of the collective that published Postclassicisms (Chicago University Press, 2019). All of these topics spill over into his teaching, and many of them have begun their life there, because he finds that the classroom is one of the most productive places you can ever be.

  • Laurent Pernot
    Laurent Pernot
    Professor at the University of Strasbourg and Founder of the Center for the Analysis of Religious Rhetoric in Antiquity

    Laurent Pernot is a French academic and historian specializing in ancient Greek rhetoric. In 2025, he was appointed a Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour. He has been a professor at the University of Strasbourg since 1994, where he directed the Institute of Greek Studies and founded the Center for the Analysis of Religious Rhetoric in Antiquity. He has held numerous academic and institutional leadership roles, including President of the Alsace section of the Guillaume Budé Association (1995–1996) and President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. In addition, he is an honorary member of the International Society for the Study of Biblical and Semitic Rhetoric, the Association for Greek Studies, and the Gutenberg Circle. An international associate of the Italian Institute for Human Sciences and of the National Society of Sciences, Letters, and Arts of Naples, he also serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including Rhetorica, Atene & Roma, Koinonia, and Ktèma. A corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres since 2006, he was elected a full member of the Academy on 19 October 2012, succeeding Louis Bazin. A visiting professor at numerous American and European universities, his research focuses on rhetoric—particularly the Second Sophistic—in ancient Greece. He is the author of (among others) La Rhétorique dans l’Antiquité (2000) and Epideictic Rhetoric: Questioning the Stakes of Ancient Praise (2015).

  • Gościwit Malinowski
    Gościwit Malinowski
    Professor at the Institute of Classical, Mediterranean and Oriental Studies of the Faculty of Philology of the University of Wrocław

    Gościwit Malinowski is a classical philologist, Hellenist, professor of humanities in the field of literary studies, full professor at the Institute of Classical, Mediterranean and Oriental Studies of the Faculty of Philology of the University of Wrocław. In 1992 he graduated in classical philology from the University of Wrocław, in 1999 he defended his doctoral thesis Animals and Plants in Strabo’s “Geography”. Semantic-etymological and Identificational-Source Studies, and in 2007 he obtained his habilitation based on a thesis entitled Agatharchides of Cnidus, Histories. He took up the position of associate professor at the Institute of Classical, Mediterranean and Oriental Studies at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Wrocław. He also worked at the Department of Social Sciences and Economic Law at the University of Management and Finance in Wrocław. He served as director of the Institute of Classical, Mediterranean and Oriental Studies at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Wrocław . He was president and is vice-president of the board of the Polish Philological Society.

  • Ioannis M. Konstantakos
    Ioannis M. Konstantakos
    Professor of ancient Greek literature and culture at the Faculty of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

    Ioannis M. Konstantakos studied classical philology at the universities of Athens (BA 1995) and Cambridge (MPhil 1996, PhD 2000). Since 2003 he is teaching ancient Greek literature and culture at the Faculty of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he is now full Professor. His scholarly interests include Greek and Roman comedy, the history of European comic theatre, Herodotus, ancient fiction, folktales and popular lore, the literatures and cultures of the ancient Near East, and the reception of classical texts in East and West. He has published widely on all these topics. His articles have appeared in many Greek and international periodicals. He has given papers and lectures in various conferences, learned societies and university institutions. He has received student grants and scholarships from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and the Greek State Scholarships Foundation. His monograph Akicharos: The Tale of Ahiqar in Ancient Greece, vol. 1-2 (Athens 2008) was awarded in 2009 the prestigious prize of the Academy of Athens for the best classical monograph published within the last five years. Another book of his, Legends and Folktales about the Land of Gold: Archaeology of a Folktale Motif (Athens 2011), was shortlisted for the State Prize of Essay and Criticism in 2012.

  • Oleksandr Levko
    Oleksandr Levko
    Associate Professor of the Department of General Linguistics, Classical Philology and Neo-Hellenic Studies

    PhD in Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of General Linguistics, Classical Philology and Neo-Hellenic Studies.

  • Margalit Finkelberg
    Margalit Finkelberg
    Professor of Classics (Emerita) at Tel Aviv University

    Margalit Finkelberg is Professor of Classics (Emerita) at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece (1998), Greeks and Pre-Greeks. Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition (2005, pbk 2009), Homer (2014; Hebrew) and of over eighty articles on various topics, particularly on Homer and Greek epic tradition. She is a co-editor (with G. G. Stroumsa) of Homer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World (Brill 2003); and the editor of The Homer Encyclopedia (3 vols.; Wiley-Blackwell 2011). She is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the recipient of the Rothschild Prize in the Humanities for 2012.

  • Ioanna Karamanou
    Ioanna Karamanou
    Vice-Dean of the School of Philosophy of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

    Ioanna Karamanou graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Athens with grade ‘excellent’ (9.48/10.00). She read for the MPhil and PhD in Classics at the University of Cambridge (St John’s College) and University College London respectively, with research grants by the Cambridge European Trust, the A.S. Onassis and the Ο. Stathatou Foundations. Her doctoral dissertation was shortlisted for the Hellenic Foundation Award in 2005. Her research interests include Greek drama and its reception, Greek tragic and comic fragments, literary papyrology and ancient literary theory (especially Aristotle) on tragedy. She has authored: 1. Euripides: Danae and Dictys, Leipzig/Munich 2006, 2. Euripides: Alexandros, Berlin/Boston 2017, 3. Refiguring Tragedy: Studies in Plays preserved in Fragments and their Reception, Berlin/Boston 2019, 4. Fragmenta Comica 25.2: Diphilus (frr. 59-85: Paralyomenos-Chrysochoos), Göttingen 2024, 5. Fragmenta Comica 25.3: Diphilus (Incertarum Fabularum Fragmenta), Göttingen (forthcoming). She has edited four volumes (currently editing two more collective volumes) and has published more than 70 articles and chapters in international peer-reviewed journals and collective volumes. Her published work enumerates more than 1,600 citations. She has participated in six international research projects and has organized six international conferences. In 2018 she was granted the Academy of Athens Award for Classical Philology for her book Euripides: Alexandros (De Gruyter 2017) and since 2002 she has been fellow of the Cambridge European Society. She is a reviewer of books for Oxford University Press, and of articles for highly-rated journals, including Transactions of the American Philological Association, Mnemosyne, Classical Philology, and Trends in Classics. She is Associate Editor of Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes and Main Editor for Drama in De Gruyter’s Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia (GROH). She has given more than 80 conference lectures and has been an Invited speaker at Harvard (CHS), Princeton, Columbia, Brown, and Oxford Universities. Since 2023 she is co-organiser of the Graduate Student Summer Workshop on Greek Tragedy of Princeton University. Since 2022 she is Head of the Faculty of Philology of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (previously Head of the Classics Department, 2019-20, 2021-22) and since 2025 Vice-Dean of the School of Philosophy.

  • Judith E. Kalb
    Judith E. Kalb
    Associate Professor of Russian at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of South Carolina

    Judith E. Kalb is Associate Professor of Russian at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of South Carolina. She earned a BA in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University and a joint PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Humanities at Stanford University. Dr. Kalb’s research focuses on the interactions between Russian culture and the Greco-Roman classical tradition. Her book Russia’s Rome: Imperial Visions, Messianic Dreams, 1890-1930, examines the image of ancient Rome in the writings of Russian modernists. Her new project focuses on Russia’s reception of Homer. An award-winning teacher, Dr. Kalb enjoys introducing students to the incredible world of Russian culture and the larger European literary tradition of which it forms a part.

  • Maciej Junkiert
    Maciej Junkiert
    Associate Professor at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland

    Maciej Junkiert is a historian of literature and intellectual historian and associate professor at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. He is a graduate of Polish philology (AMU, Poznań) and the “Artes Liberales” Academy (University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University). His research focuses on relationships of classical philology with literary studies in Poland and Germany, especially in the 19th century. He has earned the Prime Minister’s Award for the best PhD thesis (2012) and the Konrad and Marta Górski Competition (2013). Holder of the START Programme scholarship of the Foundation for Polish Science (2014) and a scholarship for Young Researchers of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2014–2017). He has authored the books: The New Greeks: Polish Romantics’ Historicism and the Emergence of ‘Altertumswissenschaft’ (2024) and Cyprian Norwid and the History of Greece (2020).

  • Casper de Jonge
    Casper de Jonge
    Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society

    Casper de Jonge is a Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. His research concentrates on Greek Literature in the Roman World, Ancient Migrant Literature, Ancient Literary Criticism, Classical Rhetoric, the Sublime, and the Reception of Antiquity in Classical Music. Casper de Jonge received Veni and Vidi grants from the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO). He is coordinator of the Minor Rhetoric, coordinator of the OIKOS Research Group Ancient Rhetoric and Aesthetics, member of the editorial board of Mnemosyne and the Mnemosyne Supplements, chair of the LUCAS Advisory Board, and program director of Classics and Ancient Civilizations (MA, Research MA). In the media he has commented on Greek culture in Rome (the Herculaneum papyri) and the rhetorical performance of 21st century politicians.

  • Irene J. F. de Jong
    Irene J. F. de Jong
    Professor Emerita of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam

    Irene J. F. de Jong is Professor Emerita of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam. She has published extensively on Homer, Herodotus, Euripides, and the history of ancient Greek narrative. Her work has been translated into Spanish and New-Greek. Recent publications include A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey (2001), Homer Iliad Book XXII (2012), Narratology and Classics: A Practical Guide (2014). She has edited volumes on Literary Theory and the Classics (with J. Sullivan), Homer (with J.M. Bremer), Sophocles and the Greek language (with A. Rijksbaron), and Brill’s Companion to Herodotus (with H. van Wees and E.J. Bakker). Her studies have appeared in Mnemosyne, Classical Quarterly, and Poetics Today. She is a member of the Academia Europaea. Her work has been awarded the study-prize of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation (1988) and the C.C. Hodshon Prize for literary scholarship (1994). She is one of the editors of the international journal for classical studies Mnemosyne.

  • Richard Hunter
    Richard Hunter
    Member of the Academy of Athens, an Honorary Fellow of the University of Sydney, President of the council of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a member on the advisory board of the periodical Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici

    Richard Hunter was the 37th Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge from 2001 to 2021. He studied at the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons) degree in 1974. He then moved to England, where he studied for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral thesis was titled “A commentary on Euboulos” (1979). Hunter then became a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 2001 he was appointed as the Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge in succession to P. E. Easterling and became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He retired as Regius Professor in October 2021. Hunter is a member of the Academy of Athens, an Honorary Fellow of the University of Sydney and has an honorary degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He serves on the advisory board of the periodical Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici. Since 2013, he is president of the council of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 2013, Hunter was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications include: Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica Book III (1989); Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry (1996); Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (with M. Fantuzzi) (2004); The Shadow of Callimachus (2006); On Coming After: Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception (2008); Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature: the Silent Stream (2012); Hesiodic Voices. Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod’s Works and Days (2014); Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome (with Casper C. de Jonge) (2018); Euripides: Cyclops (with R. Laemmle) (2021); The Layers of the Text: Collected Papers on Classical Literature 2008–2021 (2023).

  • Constanze Güthenke
    Constanze Güthenke
    Founding member of the Postclassicisms collective

    Constanze Güthenke is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Oxford and E. P. Warren Praelector in Classics at Corpus Christi College. She was trained both in Classics (BA Cambridge) and in European and Comparative Literature (MPhil Cambridge, DPhil Oxford), working especially on German and Modern Greek literary and cultural history. She taught for twelve years in the Classics Department at Princeton University (2002-2014), where she was also affiliated with the Program in Hellenic Studies. Her main research interests lie in the field of antiquity after antiquity, especially in questions of the disciplinary shape of Classics and critical histories of scholarship: why, and how, do classicists ask the questions they ask? She has published a monograph on the literary representations of contemporary Greece in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Placing Modern Greece, Oxford, 2008). Her second book, Feeling and Classical Philology: Studying Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Cambridge 2020) looks at the lasting rhetorical strategies and organizing metaphors of scholarship. She is interested in questions of scholarly community, ancient and modern, and currently has a research project on transnational aspects of scholarship, asking what happens to classical knowledge when it migrates between places and contexts (especially in Europe and America). She teaches on a wide range of topics and genres in Greek literature (tragedy, comedy, epic, philosophical dialogue, ancient biography) and their afterlife, as well as on Modern Greek literature and culture. She is also a founding member of the Postclassicisms collective (www.postclassicisms.org), and she was until recently editor in chief of the Classical Receptions Journal, published by Oxford University Press.

  • Francisco García Jurado
    Francisco García Jurado
    Doctor in Classical Philology at the Autonomous University of Madrid

    Francisco García Jurado is a doctor in Classical Philology with an extraordinary award from the Autonomous University of Madrid, where he also received a Research Staff Training scholarship. He had scientific stays at the Universities of Amsterdam and Bologna, and has been part of an advanced research team at the Real Colegio Complutense, attached to Harvard University. He also obtained an assistant position at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he later won another as professor of Latin Philology. He is currently a university professor, with the academic profile of “Historiography of Latin Literature”, which constitutes one of his main lines of research, together with studies on “Tradition and Classical Reception” and those related to the humanistic and essay reading of Aulo Gelio’s Attic Nights. Among his most relevant publications are: Teoría de la Tradición Clásica (Mexico, UNAM, 2016) and Diccionario Hispánico de la Tradición y Recepción Clásica (Madrid, Guillermo Escolar, 2021), a work of which he has been scientific director. Currently, he is head investigator of a research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation: “El viaje de las ideas literarias Historiografía comparada de las Literaturas Clásicas (ámbitos hispano y luso 1782-1950): transferencias culturales entre Europa y América”.

  • Carlo Franco
    Carlo Franco
    Adjunct Professor of Ancient History at Ca' Foscari University in Venice (1999-2006)

    Carlo Franco (born 1961, Ph.D in Ancient History in 1990), has been adjunct professor of Ancient History at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice (1999-2006). He has published on Greek and Roman history, on the classical tradition, on the “Alexander romance”, on ancient historiography, on the history of classical scholarship in Italy. He is currently working, together with Claudio De Stefani, on an edition of some works of Aelius Aristides.