Research: "Alexander in the East. On the peoples of India and the Brahmans"
Research interests: Classical philology, Iconography, Late antiquity, “Alexander Romance”, Greco-Indian wonders (hybrid creatures, paradises), Gymnosophists and relations between India and the Classical world.
Simone Cecchetto (1282940), Curriculum: “Indian subcontinent and Central Asia”, 36th cycle (with scholarship).
04/2022 − 07/2022: Visiting Ph.D. Student at the Warburg Institute, University of London, School of Advanced Study.
11/2020 − to date: PhD student at the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies – ISO, Curriculum: Indian subcontinent and Central Asia, Sapienza-University of Rome. Project title: “Alexander in the East. On the peoples of India and the Brahmans”.
2018 − 2019: Bibliographic research and drafting of the project “Dragons and Indian Paradises in the Alexander Romance”, approved at the Warburg Institute of London.
2017: Master’s degree in Philology, Literature and History of the Ancient World, Sapienza-University of Rome. Thesis Title: “Περὶ τῶν τῆς Ἰνδίας ἐθνῶν καὶ τῶν βραγμάνων by Ps.-Palladius. Introduction, translation and commentary”.
2015: Internship at the “Giuseppe Tucci” National Museum of Oriental Art. Cataloguing and arrangement of textual and iconographic sources for the photographic panels: “The classical world and India”.
2012: Bachelor’s degree in Humanities Studies, Sapienza-University of Rome. Thesis Title: “Anima Mundi. History of an Idea from the Archaic φύσις to Modern times”.
2008: High-school diploma in classical studies (Liceo Classico).