Dr. phil. Vincenzo Damiani

Studied Classics and Ancient Philosophy at the Università di Pisa and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (2008-2012) as well as at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (2009-2010). DAAD doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Classical Philology, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (2013-2014). Research assistant (2014-2019) and lecturer (Summer Term 2018) at the Chair of Greek Philology (Prof. Dr. M. Erler). Redactional editor of the journal Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft (2016-2019). 2019: PhD in History of Ancient Philosophy/Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (cotutelle de thèse).

 

 

Member of the Mommsen-Gesellschaft (since 2015), the Sokratische Gesellschaft (since 2015) and the Würzburg Research Centre on Epicureanism (since 2014).

 

 

Main research fields:

1. History of ancient science, with special focus on ancient medicine (Galenism).

2. Forms of ancient, especially Hellenistic, philosophical and technical-scientific prose

3. Literary papyrology

4. Digital Humanities