Projects and collaborations
🌏 - I have conducted my research at various international institutions, including the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Laboratoire d'études sur les monothéismes LEM - UMR 8584) and The American School of Classical Studies in Athens, where I was received the generous support of the British Academy and the FWO, respectively. Additionally, I was a visiting researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven and at the Department of Classics at the Ohio State University (OH).
🌊 - During my time as a graduate student in Bologna, I had the opportunity to spend a semester at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Erasmus, 2008-9). Additionally, I engaged in collaboration with the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, where I undertook an internship supported by the Erasmus+ European Grant (2011). I was also involved in an internship program sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Italian Embassy in Budapest (2012).
🔮 - Since my PhD, devoted to Plutarch and oracular mantic, I have always been interested in how ancient philosophers conceptualised divination. Can we know the future in advance? How far do human knowledge capabilities extend? How does the communication between us and the gods work? To answer these questions, as a British Academy - Newton International Fellow at Durham University, I joined the DCAMP with a project on divinatory perspectives in the Platonic tradition.
🐚️ - With Dr. Cagla Umsu-Seifert (Munich), I am a member of the Research Group Olympiodorus Online, a project directed by Prof. Michael Griffin (UBC), for a new, collaborative English translation of Olympiodorus’ Commentary on Plato’s Alcibiades. Presently, we are in the process of creating a series of videos and podcasts to delve into a range of topics within Alexandrian Platonism and Olympiodorus’ philosophy. Additionally, I am managing the Project’s Facebook and Twitter-X page.
💡️ - What determined the success that oracles, prophecy and revelation enjoyed in the first centuries of our era? How did revelative knowledge shape the relations between different cultural groups and religious beliefs? Why epiphanic experiences seem to have prevailed over stochastic techniques of prediction? In order to answer these and many other questions, I organised a big international event at Durham University on “Ancient Revelation: Divination, Prophecy and Epiphany.” My conference featured experts from all over the world, and was generously supported by prestigious institutions, such as The British Society for the History of Philosophy, The Classical Association, The Mind Association, The Past and Present Society. More information can be found on the Conference Website. The resulting book is in print with Cambridge University Press.
🌏 - I have conducted my research at various international institutions, including the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Laboratoire d'études sur les monothéismes LEM - UMR 8584) and The American School of Classical Studies in Athens, where I was received the generous support of the British Academy and the FWO, respectively. Additionally, I was a visiting researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven and at the Department of Classics at the Ohio State University (OH).
🌊 - During my time as a graduate student in Bologna, I had the opportunity to spend a semester at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Erasmus, 2008-9). Additionally, I engaged in collaboration with the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, where I undertook an internship supported by the Erasmus+ European Grant (2011). I was also involved in an internship program sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Italian Embassy in Budapest (2012).
🔮 - Since my PhD, devoted to Plutarch and oracular mantic, I have always been interested in how ancient philosophers conceptualised divination. Can we know the future in advance? How far do human knowledge capabilities extend? How does the communication between us and the gods work? To answer these questions, as a British Academy - Newton International Fellow at Durham University, I joined the DCAMP with a project on divinatory perspectives in the Platonic tradition.
🐚️ - With Dr. Cagla Umsu-Seifert (Munich), I am a member of the Research Group Olympiodorus Online, a project directed by Prof. Michael Griffin (UBC), for a new, collaborative English translation of Olympiodorus’ Commentary on Plato’s Alcibiades. Presently, we are in the process of creating a series of videos and podcasts to delve into a range of topics within Alexandrian Platonism and Olympiodorus’ philosophy. Additionally, I am managing the Project’s Facebook and Twitter-X page.
💡️ - What determined the success that oracles, prophecy and revelation enjoyed in the first centuries of our era? How did revelative knowledge shape the relations between different cultural groups and religious beliefs? Why epiphanic experiences seem to have prevailed over stochastic techniques of prediction? In order to answer these and many other questions, I organised a big international event at Durham University on “Ancient Revelation: Divination, Prophecy and Epiphany.” My conference featured experts from all over the world, and was generously supported by prestigious institutions, such as The British Society for the History of Philosophy, The Classical Association, The Mind Association, The Past and Present Society. More information can be found on the Conference Website. The resulting book is in print with Cambridge University Press.