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 ongoing research projects in the field of classics, such as the LGGA - Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity online (Brill), SGG - Supplementum Grammaticum Graecum in print and online (Brill, Leiden-Boston), CLGP - Commentaria et Lexica Graeca in Papyris Reperta (De Gruyter, Berlin-Boston). His most recent work includes: the critical commented edition of ancient exegesis to Aristophanes and Herodotus preserved in papyri (CLGP, 2012² and 2018); 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 (Leiden-Boston 2015) and in the History of Ancient Greek Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Byzantine Age (ed. by F. Montanari, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2020); and the edited volumes The Birth of Scholiography. From Types to Texts (with Antonietta Porro, De Gruyter, Berlin-Boston 2014); Thirteen Ancient Greek Grammarians (SGG 5, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2021); Didimo Calcentero fra Alessandria e Roma (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 2024).