Biography

Antonietta Porro is full professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan; where she is also Head of the Department of Classical Philology, Papyrology and Historical Linguistics; member of the Executive Boards of the PhD School in “Studi
Umanistici. Tradizione e contemporaneità” and of the Centro Interdisciplinare di Ricerche per la Computerizzazione dei Segni dell’Espressione (CIRCSE). She is member of the Executive Board of the journal “Aevum antiquum” and of other scientific journals and series. Main research
interests: Alcaeus; Hellenistic literature; Alexandrian exegesis of classical texts; history of Greek literary language. Publications most relevant to this project: Vetera Alcaica. L’esegesi di Alceo dagli Alessandrini all’età imperiale, Milano 1994; Alcaeus, CLGP 1.1.1, Berlin-New York 2004; Forms
and genres of Alexandrian exegesis on lyric poets, TiC 1,2009, pp. 183-202; Archilochus, CLGP 1.1.3, Berlin-Boston 2011; Anacreon, CLGP 1.1.2.2, Berlin-Boston 2017; (ed. with F. Montana), The Birth of Scholiography. From Types to Texts, TiC, Special Issue, 6.1, 2014.

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