Phd in PHILOLOGY AND HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT
WORLD

email: agostino.soldati@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649913983
building: Lettere
room: 2, sezione Studi storico-religiosi

Agostino Giorgio Francesco Soldati (Milan, 1977) studied at the University of Milan, where he graduated in Classical Literature with a thesis on Papyrology in 2002 (supervised by Prof. C. Gallazzi and Prof. D. Foraboschi). He obtained his PhD in Classical Philology, Linguistics and History at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa in 2009 (supervised by Prof. C. Gallazzi and Prof. B. Kramer). He is currently an associate professor of Papyrology (FICP- 01/C, formerly L-ANT/05) at the S.A.R.A.S. Department, Sapienza University of Rome, where between 2017 and 2021 he was a researcher in Egyptology and Coptic Civilisation (STAA-01/B, formerly L-OR/02) as part of the ERC “PAThs” project directed by Prof. P. Buzi. He is primarily engaged in ecdotic work on Greek, Latin and Coptic literary and documentary texts, mostly of Egyptian origin, from the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic periods. He also cultivates studies on late Greek culture, with particular attention to the Umgangssprache and contacts with neighbouring languages. Alongside literary papyrology, his research interests focus on the oldest manuscript tradition of Herodotus' text, with special attention to dialectological aspects, as well as on the language of the Septuagint as a monument to Hellenistic Greek. In the field of Coptic studies, he has focused in particular on the edition and study of colophons, scribal notes and documentary texts from the monastic milieu written in Coptic and Arabic.