Silvia Barbantani is Associate Professor of Classical Philology and Papyrology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano. She studied in Milano, Urbino, Venezia (VIU), and was a visiting  student in Oxford (Corpus Christi College) and in Cambridge. She is associate member of the Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada. She published extensively on Hellenistic history and literature, focusing mainly on epigram, elegy, encomiastic poetry and lyric poetry. After two monographs (Φάτις νικηφόρος 2001; Three Burials 2010) she is currently working on a corpus of Hellenistic epigrams related to military men and to a monograph on elegy. She contributed to Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker Continued with (among other fragments) an edition of Apollonius Rhodius’ Ktiseis. Recently she has been a guest expert in the Post-Classical Greek Network and is currently an external mamber of the state-funded Spanish project La Historia como materia poética en la consolidatión y desarrollo de la poesía en época helenística.