Matteo Zaccarini

Associate Professor

Department of Cultural Heritage

Academic discipline: STAN-01/A Greek History

Research

Keywords: Greek history ancient historiography Classical Athens Classical Greece political history Classical reception ancient democracy

Classical Greek history, esp. 5th century BCE and the relationship between Athens and Sparta before the Peloponnesian war.
Ancient historiography, Greek historiography in fragments and historical criticism.
Ancient political and institutional history and theory, esp. 6th-4th-cent. Athens. Democracy, oligarchy, constitutional forms, and political struggle.
Ancient Greek views on the early Classical-Archaic past: intentional history, (re)writing of the past biased by the present, the influence of political ideology over historiography and generally over Greek sources.
Plutarch on the Greek past, as a Greek source within the imperial Roman world.
Greek epigraphy: Athenian casualty lists, the celebration of war and idealised military virtues.
Interactions and mechanisms that regulated the activity of small boards of public magistrates in the Classical period (esp. the strategoi).
Cultural heritage, cultural history and the reception of antiquity in contemporary media
Digital tools for the study of ancient history and cultural heritage

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