Past Member
Gianfranco Agosti
Funding provided by the Patrons’ Endowment Fund
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
Greek Epigrams in Late Antiquity
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Gianfranco Agosti is pursuing a comprehensive study of the social and cultural role of inscriptional Greek poetry in late antiquity. He plans to reexamine inscriptional poems as literature, considering their social role as vehicles of display and diffusion of learning in the urban space of late antique Eastern Mediterranean cities.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Spring
Degrees
University of Florence
Ph.D.
1995