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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Classical Philology,History of Philosophy |
| Keywords | Stoiker, Philosophie der Antike, Hellenistische Philosophie, Klassische Philologie, Papyrologie |
| Honours and awards | 2023: ERC Award (Università degli Studi di Torino) 2022: Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation Award (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) 2018: Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award (University of Notre Dame, IN-USA) 2015: DFG Award (Universität Trier) |
Current contact address
| Country | Italy |
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| City | Torino |
| Institution | Universita degli Studi di Torino |
| Institute | Dipartimento di Studi Storici |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Rainer Thiel | Institut für Altertumswissenschaften, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/01/2023 |
Program(s)
| 2022 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2024 | Christian Vassallo, Pia De Simone, Kilian Fleischer: Crantor of Soli: The Last of the Old Academics. A Discussion. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2024 |
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| 2024 | Christian Vassallo, Michele Alessandrelli, Stavros Kouloumentas: Stoic Presocratics – Presocratic Stoics: Studies in the Stoic Reception of Early Greek Philosophy. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024 |
| 2023 | Christian Vassallo Crantore lettore del prologo del Timeo: Il fr. 8 Mette tra decostruzione ed ermeneutica. In: Hermes, 2023, |
| 2023 | Christian Vassallo et al.: Layout of Ancient Greek Papyri Through Lead-Drawn Ruling Lines Revealed by Macro X-Ray Fluorescence Imaging. In: Nature, 2023, |
| 2023 | Christian Vassallo Measuring the End: Heraclitus and Diogenes of Babylon on the Great Year and Ekpyrosis. In: Apeiron, 2023, |
| 2023 | Christian Vassallo Socratic, Academic, and Peripatetic Theologies in Philodemus’ On Piety (PHerc. 1428, cols. 334-341 = frs. 20-24 Schober). In: Analecta Papyrologica, 2023, |
| 2023 | Christian Vassallo Speusippus on God as Mind: A Conjecture in Fr. 57 Tarán (= 100 Isnardi Parente). In: Mnemosyne, 2023, |
| 2023 | Christian Vassallo Xenophanes on the Soul: Another Chapter of Ancient Physics. In: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 2023, |
| 2022 | Christian Vassallo Diagoras and Philippus ‘the Atheist’ in Philodemus’ On Piety: A Suggestion. In: Mnemosyne, 2022, |
| 2022 | Christian Vassallo Dialettica, retorica e linguaggio in Diogene di Babilonia: Osservazioni preliminari per una nuova edizione delle fonti. In: Aevum Antiquum, 2022, |
| 2022 | Christian Vassallo Diogenes of Babylon on Who the Deity Is: Aëtius 1.7.8 Mansfeld-Runia Reconsidered. In: The Classical Quarterly, 2022, |
| 2022 | Christian Vassallo Sur la hiérarchie des biens dans l’Ancienne Acádemie Crantor et la morale au théâtre. In: Revue des Études Grecques, 2022, |
| 2021 | Christian Vassallo Alcmaeon’s Empirical Side: Unpublished Notes from the Vlastos-Nachlass. In: Rivista di Storia della Filosofia, 2021, |
| 2021 | Christian Vassallo Rolling Sisyphus’ Stone Uphill? Plato’s Philosophy of History and Progress Reappraised. In: The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2021, |
| 2021 | Christian Vassallo: The Presocratics at Herculaneum: A Study of Early Greek Philosophy in the Epicurean Tradition. With an Appendix on Diogenes of Oinoanda's Criticism of Presocratic Philosophy. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2021 |
| 2019 | Christian Vassallo: Plotino, La bellezza intelligibile: Introduzione, traduzione e commento. Hildesheim/Zürich/New York: Olms, 2019 |
| 2019 | Christian Vassallo (ed.): Presocratics and Papyrological Tradition: A Philosophical Reappraisal of the Sources. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019 |
| 2018 | Christian Vassallo Atomism and the Worship of Gods: On Democritus’ ‘Rational’ Attitude towards Theology. In: Philosophie Antique, 2018, |
| 2018 | Christian Vassallo Feuer und göttliche Dialektik bei Heraklit: Neue Lesungen in PHerc. 1428, Kol. 330 (olim Fr. 17). Praesocratica Herculanensia IX. In: Mnemosyne, 2018, |
| 2018 | Christian Vassallo Persaeus on Prodicus on the Gods’ Existence and Nature: Another Attempt Based on a New Reconstruction of Philodemus’ Account. In: Philosophie Antique, 2018, |
| 2018 | Christian Vassallo The ‘pre-Socratic Section’ of Philodemus’ On Piety: A New Reconstruction. Praesocratica Herculanensia X (Part II). In: Archiv für Papyrusforschung, 2018, |
| 2018 | Benedikt Strobel / Georg Wöhrle / Elvira Wakelnig / Christian Vassallo: Xenophanes von Kolophon. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2018 |
| 2017 | Christian Vassallo Demades’ Natural Flair for Rhetoric: Some Notes on the Extant Herculanean Evidence. In: Wiener Studien, 2017, |
| 2017 | Christian Vassallo La ‘sezione presocratica’ del De pietate di Filodemo: una nuova ricostruzione. Praesocratica Herculanensia X (Parte I). In: Archiv für Papyrusforschung, 2017, |
| 2017 | Christian Vassallo P.Herc. 1788 ([Philodemi] [Philosophorum historia?]): Introduction, Edition and Commentary. In: Analecta Papyrologica, 2017, |
| 2017 | Christian Vassallo (ed.): Physiologia: Topics in Presocratic Philosophy and its Reception in Atiquity. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2017 |
| 2016 | Christian Vassallo A Catalogue of the Evidence for Presocratics in the Herculaneum Papyri. In: Archiv für Papyrusforschung, 2016, |
| 2016 | Christian Vassallo A New Philosophical Text on Friendship and Wisdom: Rereading P.Berol. Inv. 10536. In: Archiv für Papyrusforschung, 2016, |
| 2016 | Christian Vassallo Parmenides and the «First God»: Doxographical Strategies in Philodemus’ On Piety. Praesocratica Herculanensia VII. In: Hyperboreus, 2016, |
| 2015 | Christian Vassallo Die Überlieferung des Fr. 18 Marcovich Heraklits (= DK 22 B 81) in PHerc. 1004 (Philodemi De rhetorica, Liber VII). Praesocratica Herculanensia II. In: Mnemosyne, 2015, |
| 2015 | Christian Vassallo On the Supposed Monism of Thales in PHerc. 1788 (= VH2 VIII 60, fr. 6). Praesocratica Herculanensia I. In: Hermes, 2015, |
| 2015 | Christian Vassallo Orpheus in the Herculaneum Papyri. Praesocratica Herculanensia VI. In: Archiv für Papyrusforschung, 2015, |
| 2015 | Christian Vassallo Supplemento papirologico alle recenti edizioni dei Milesii. Praesocratica Herculanensia VIII. In: Archiv für Papyrusforschung, 2015, |
| 2015 | Christian Vassallo Testimonianze su Anassagora e altri Presocratici nel libro IV della Retorica di Filodemo. Praesocratica Herculanensia V. In: Lexicon Philosophicum, 2015, |
| 2014 | Christian Vassallo Il ruolo della retorica tra democrazia e oligarchia: un’ipotesi di attribuzione di un supposto frammento socratico (PSI XI 1215). In: Elenchos, 2014, |
| 2014 | Christian Vassallo Xenophanes in the Herculaneum Papyri. Praesocratica Herculanensia IV. In: Archiv für Papyrusforschung, 2014, |
| 2013 | Christian Vassallo Ein vergessenes Fragment eines sokratischen Dialogs: PSI XI 1215. In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 2013, |
| 2013 | Christian Vassallo Il fr. 70 Marcovich di Eraclito (= DK 22 B 85) nel De ira di Filodemo. Praesocratica Herculanensia III. In: Cronache Ercolanesi, 2013, |