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.