Vincenzo DAMIANI

I completed my Master’s Degree in Classical Philology at the University of Pisa in 2012. In 2013 I was awarded the Licentiate Diploma in Philosophical Disciplines by the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, under the supervision of Prof. Giuseppe Cambiano. At the Scuola Normale Superiore and subsequently at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, I continued my research with a postgraduate fellowship and, from 2015, a three-year grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). In September 2019 I completed my joint PhD programme (SNS/JMU Würzburg) with a dissertation on the forms and functions of philosophical compendia in Epicureanism, supervised by Prof. Mauro Tulli and Prof. Michael Erler.

I was awarded the Italian National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professor in the academic recruitment field 10/D2 – Greek Language and Literature in 2021; in 2026, I obtained the qualification for Full Professor in the same field and for Associate Professor in the academic recruitment field 10/D4 – Classical and Late Antique Philology.

From 2014 to 2019 I worked as a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Institute of Classical Philology of the University of Würzburg, contributing to the development of digital tools for automated image segmentation and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) applied to Greek literary papyri and incunabula (Anagnosis). I contributed to the development of the online Thesaurus Herculanensium Voluminum and of the Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri, since 2019 as a member of its Editorial Board. From 2016 to 2019 I served as editor of the Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft. From 2019 to 2024 I worked as a Wissenschaftlicher Assistent at the Institute for the History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine of the University of Ulm, where I was responsible for teaching History of Ancient Medicine and Medical Terminology. Since 2018, I have also been teaching Greek and Latin Literature at the University of Würzburg.

I am a member of the Würzburger Zentrum für Epikureismusforschung, the School for Saving Classics Research Centre at the University of Catania, the Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi, the Mommsen-Gesellschaft, the Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie (GAnPh), and the Associazione Universitaria per lo Studio del Mondo Greco To Hellenikon. I am currently working on a Habilitationsschrift in Classical Philology at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, with a project entitled Die Norm des „guten Lebens“ in Medizin, Philosophie und Theologie der Kaiserzeit zwischen Diskursvalidierung und Konkurrenzbewältigung. Zur rhetorischen Konstruktion auktorialer Autorität bei Galen, Mark Aurel und Clemens von Alexandria. My research interests mainly include the rhetorical and communicative aspects of Greek scientific literature, with particular attention to medical texts; literary papyrology, especially Herculaneum papyrology; the history of classical scholarship; the literary forms of ancient philosophical texts; and digital humanities.