Phd in PHILOLOGY AND HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT
WORLD

Research: Paedagogi and paedagogia in Rome during the Principate.

Sergio Turrisi (1989).
PhD candidate in Philology and History of the Ancient World (curriculum storico).

Graduated in Classics in Sapienza in 2011 with a thesis in Aegean Civilizations (110/110 cum laude), he continued his studies in the same university with a master's degree in Philology, Literature and History of the Ancient World in 2014 (110/110 cum laude).
He later qualified to teach Literary Disciplines, Latin and Greek in high schools and has been a tenured Teacher in high schools since 2017.

Enrolled in the XXXVIII cycle of the PhD programme in Philology and History of the Ancient World, he has carried out a research on the history of education in Rome during the Principate, with particular focus on the figure of the paedagogus and on the paedagogia, the servile schools connected with the imperial household. His dissertation provides a systematic reconstruction of the role of the paedagogi puerorum both as tutors within the great aristocratic domus and as teachers active in the imperial paedagogia of the Palatine and A Capite Africae. The investigation integrates literary sources, epigraphy and graffiti, outlining the functions, status, career paths of the paedagogi, as well as the forms of training, socialization and discipline of the pueri involved in these contexts.