Fausto Montana (1966) is Professor of ancient Greek literature at the University of Pavia (Italy). He is a member of national and international scientific institutions (among which, the board of the FIEC - Fédération Internationale des Associations d’Études Classiques and the SIBC - Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique) and committees of academic journals (Trends in Classics, Aevum Antiquum) and book series (Pleiadi, Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes, The Seeds of Triptolemus); he is vice-Director of the Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica. He is co-editor of / participates in various research projects in the field of classics, such as the LGGA - Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity (Brill), SGG - Supplementum Grammaticum Graecum (Brill), CLGP - Commentaria et Lexica Graeca in Papyris Reperta (De Gruyter). His most recent work includes: the critical commented edition of ancient exegesis to Aristophanes and Herodotus preserved in papyri (CLGP, 2012² and 2018); the edited volume The Birth of Scholiography. From Types to Texts (with Antonietta Porro, De Gruyter, 2014); various major items in the LGGA (Zenodotus of Ephesus, Aristarchus of Samothrace, Aristophanes of Byzantium, Aristonicus Alexandrinus, Didymus Alexandrinus); the chapters on Hellenistic Scholarship in the Brill’s Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship (2015) and, also for Brill, in the History of Ancient Greek Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Byzantine Age (ed. by F. Montanari, 2020); and the edited volume Didimo Calcentero fra Alessandria e Roma (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2024).