Professor Gianfranco Agosti
Gianfranco Agosti is Professor of Classical and Late Antique Philology at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. For the duration of his Visiting Fellowship he is hosted by St. Andrews University.
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The central issues of this work are a re-evaluation of the relation between inscriptional poems and elite literature; an exploration of the social role of poems on stone as vehicles for the display and diffusion of both classical and Christian learning; and a re-consideration of verse inscriptions’ place in the urban space of late antique eastern Mediterranean cities.