Renzo Tosi graduated in Classics at Bologna University (19/11/1973)
with a thesis on the Thucydidean glosses in Hesychius' Lexicon.
Associated Professor of Greek Literature from 28/11/1983, and
Professor "Ordinario" from 1/11/2000. His main interests regard the
ancient exegesis and the indirect tradition of the Classics: he
studied the internal dynamics of the scholiastic and
lexicographical production (see the article Strutture
lessicografiche greche, written with F. Bossi), their relationship
with Byzantine Literature (Prospettive e metodologie
lessicografiche, on the figure of Orus and Photius), and their
interpretative function towards the Classics (Scoli-fantasma
tucididei, L'ottavo libro di Tucidide nella lessicografia e Glosse
dell'Agamennone di Eschilo nel lessico di Esichio). It is
noteworthy the volume Studi sulla tradizione indiretta dei classici
greci. The most recent publications are La lessicografia e la
paremiografia in età alessandrina ed il loro sviluppo successivo
(XL Entretiens of the Fondation Hardt), Callimaco e i Glossografi
omerici, Gli Ateniesi molgoi: da Aristofane ad Eratostene, Appunti
sulla filologia di Eratostene di Cirene; moreover he is editing
some papyri for the Saur/Teubner corpus of the Greek
lexicographical, scholiographical and exegetical papyri. He also
studied the paroemiographical tradition, publishing the work
Dizionario delle sentenze latine e greche and some articles on the
role of Aristophanes of Byzantion in that tradition, on the sources
of the silver latin sententiae comprised in the Walther's
anthology. Further interests are devoted to Aeschylus, the
Byzantine world (edition of the unpublished works included in the
cod. Parisinus Gr. 400), Thucydides (La funzione argomentativa
dell'esordio nei discorsi tucididei, Tucidide in Coricio) and the
classical studies at the end of 18th century (Clotilde Tambroni e
il Classicismo fra Parma e Bologna alla fine del diciottesimo
secolo).
