My main research interests are the social, economic and legal history of the Greek world in the Classical and Hellenistic periods, with particular attention to the history of Athenian democracy, the role of the oikos and the condition of the 'marginalised' in the polis: women and slaves. I have devoted several studies to Attic oratory, both as a source for Athenian social history and Attic law, and as a testimony to the forms of communication in Classical Greece, between orality and writing. My studies on the corpus of Iseus' orations anticipated the renewed interest in this orator in recent years. I have also worked on Greek historiography and its relationship to rhetoric, and more recently on representations of the Other in Greek sources, especially Plutarch.
Member of the PhD programme in ‘Philology and Criticism’, University of Siena.
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Coordinator for the University of Siena of the ELAN programme - European Liberal Arts Network. Departmental coordinator for International Relationships |
Scientific Director of the "Seminari del Martedì" ("Tuesday Seminars") - DFCLAM, University of Siena.
Director, together with T. Braccini, A. Fo and F. Giannotti, of the series 'Studi di Antichistica', USiena Press - FUP.
Member of the scientific committee of 'Classicamente. Dialoghi senesi sul mondo antico'.
Member of the Scientific Editorial Board/Scientific Committee of: "I Quaderni del ramo d'oro online"; "Mediterraneo Antico"; "Hesperìa" and the series "Studi e testi di storia antica", Edizioni ETS, Pisa.
Member of the A.M.A. Centre (Centro di Antropologia e Mondo Antico).
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