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12. LITERARY CRITICISM IN ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY

Panel Convenors

Sergio Brillante (Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici in San Marino) [brillante.sergio@gmail.com]

Ivan Matijašić (Newcastle University) [imatijasic@gmail.com]

 

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Sergio BRILLANTE holds a PhD in Classical Philology from the University of Bari (Italy) and University of Reims (France). He wrote his thesis on Pseudo-Skylax’s periplous and geography in classical Greece. He is currently postdoctoral fellow at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici in San Marino where he works on the reception of ancient history in the frame of Italian colonial expansion (1869-1947).

 

Ivan MATIJAŠIĆ holds a PhD in Classics and Ancient History from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Italy). He was Visiting Fellow in Freiburg and Berlin, and obtained fixed-term research positions in Venice and Münster. He is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University (UK). His first book, Shaping the Canons of Ancient Greek Historiography (De Gruyter, 2018), explores Greek historiographical traditions in the works of ancient rhetors and literary critics. He is now working on a book on the ancient geographical tradition in the age of the emperor Justinian and on an edited volume on Homer and Herodotus.

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