Matteo Zaccarini

I have been a student at Bologna and King's College London; I have carried out research at Chapel Hill (NC), Birkbeck College (London), Verona, Edinburgh. Adjunct professor in Greek history (Trieste, Bologna-Ravenna) and Ancient Mediterranean history (Bologna-Ravenna), and ERC Research Fellow in Classics in Edinburgh in 2018-21. Ricercatore a tempo indeterminato B (Senior) in Greek History at the University of Bologna, Dpt. Cultural Heritage (Ravenna), 2021-24.

Since February 2024, Associate Professor of Greek history at the University of Bologna, Dpt. Cultural Heritage (Ravenna).

My research focuses on Greek classical history, ancient historiography, and the reception of antiquity in relation to the cultural heritage. I am especially interested in the relationships between Athens and Sparta, Athenian domestic politics, Greek political history and institutions, democracy and oligarchy, and emotions in Greek historiography. I have also studied the cultural heritage of Ravenna, digital tools for the study of antiquity, and the (ab)use of Greek antiquity in 19th- to 21st-century media and public discourse.