Phd in PHILOLOGY AND HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT
WORLD

email: francesco.guizzi@uniroma1.it
phone: 06 49913577; interno: 23577
building: CU003 (Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia)
room: 13 (III piano - II dall'androne -, presso la Biblioteca di Storia greca)

Francesco Guizzi is Associate Professor of Greek History (GSD: 10/STAN-01 - GREEK AND ROMAN HISTORY. SSD: STAN-01/A - Greek History. ERC sector: SH6_8: Ancient history, medieval history) at the Department of Ancient Sciences (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy) of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” since 30 December 2010. He joined the Department of Historical, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences of Antiquity (later the Department of Ancient Sciences) as an Assistan Professor on 1 February 1994. He obtained his National Scientific Qualification to full professorship on August, 3rd 2018.
He teaches Greek History in Bachelor's and Master's degree courses. Since 2017/18, he has also been teaching Greek History for the online Master's degree course in Classical Archaeology (Unitelma - Sapienza). He teaches Epigraphy and Greek Antiquities at the School of Specialisation in Archaeological Heritage of the Department of Ancient Sciences.
He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ - USA) - School of Historical Studies in the second term (12 January - 14 April 2017).
He is head of the Epigraphic Research Unit of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” at the Italian Archaeological Mission in Hierapolis of Phrygia (Pamukkale, Turkey). He participates as a representative of the epigraphic team in the Turkish archaeological excavations of Laodicea on the Lycus conducted by Prof. Celal Şimşek of Pamukkale University (Denizli) and those of Tripolis on the Meander (Yenicekent) directed by Prof. Dr. Bahadır Duman (of the same university).
He has collaborated on the Copenhagen Associations Project and is part of the international project Los dioses de Anatolia y sus nombres (continuidad, importación, interacción): una aproximación filológica y lingüística (GOAP), directed by I. Adiego (Universitat de Barcelona), in the research unit: Los dioses de Anatolia y sus nombres en textos griegos de época helenística y romana (dir. M.P. de Hoz García y Bellído, Universidad Complutense, Madrid). He has coordinated research units in MIUR projects and numerous projects at La Sapienza University.
He edits the journal Hesperìa. Studi sulla grecità d'Occidente.
He has written more than seventy articles, four monographs and edited two volumes.
His main scientific interests concern the history and epigraphy of Crete from the Archaic to the Roman period, the history and epigraphy of Hellenistic-Roman (and sometimes Byzantine) Asia Minor, Greek law, and water in Greek history and law.