FRANCESCO GUIZZI

OFFICE HOURS 
Monday 9am-12.30pm
Room 13 of the Department of Ancient Sciences, 3rd floor of the Faculty (building CU003), at the Greek History Library.
The professor can always be contacted at the institutional address: francesco.guizzi@uniroma1.it.
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EXAM SESSIONS FOR THE 2025/26 ACADEMIC YEAR
Exams will be held IN PERSON and will be ORAL.
A timetable setting out the exam times for individual candidates will be published a few days before the exam session.
Anyone who has registered but no longer intends to attend the exam is strongly urged to notify it before the timetable is published, so as not to cause any inconvenience to their fellow students.

Winter session
12/1/26 (booking 1–5/1/26)
26/1/26 (booking 14–18/1/26)
9/2/26 (booking 28/1–1/2/26)

SPECIAL EXAMINATION SESSION reserved for students who have exceeded the standard duration of their course, those repeating a year (i.e. those who have completed all years of attendance), and part-time students; those who have completed all years of study; working students; students with disabilities, those diagnosed with specific learning difficulties, and those with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) if falling within the scope of certified Specific Learning Difficulties (SLD) as per the law, subject to registration with the Disability and SLD Service; family carers and young carers (subject to presentation to the lecturer of appropriate documentation certifying carer status); student mothers and student fathers with children under the age of three, those with athlete status, those enrolled in two degree programmes simultaneously, as well as pregnant students. This is extended to final-year students in the second graduation session of the 2025-2026 academic year.

27/4/26 (booking 15-19/4/26)

Summer session
8 June 2026 (booking 27–31 May 2026)
22 June 2026 (booking 10–14 June 2026)
13 July 2026 (booking 1–5 July 2026)

Autumn session
2 September 2026 (booking 20–24 August 2026);
21 September 2026 (booking 9–13 September 2026)

SPECIAL EXAMINATION SESSION reserved for students who have exceeded the standard duration of their course, repeat students (i.e. those who have completed all years of study), and part-time students; those who have completed all years of study; working students; students with disabilities, diagnosed with specific learning difficulties, or with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) if falling within the scope of certified Specific Learning Difficulties (SLD) as per the law, subject to registration with the Disability and SLD Service; family carers and young carers (subject to presentation to the lecturer of appropriate documentation certifying carer status); student mothers and student fathers with children under the age of three, those with athlete status, those enrolled in two degree programmes simultaneously, as well as pregnant students. This is extended to final-year students in the fourth graduation session of the 2025-2026 academic year.

9/11/26 (booking 28/10–1/11/26)

Winter session 2027
11/1/27 (booking 30/12/26–3/1/27)
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GREEK HISTORY and EPIGRAPHY COURSES

Greek history (part of Greek and Roman History, code 1044214, for Scienze Archeologiche) = Greek History II (code 1031456, for Philosophy)
Programme:
1) Ancient sources at the link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/118iKD6DBJPGV4T85BGXm5tqKuaRdANdu/view?u...
2) L. Breglia, F.Raviola, F.Guizzi, Storia Greca, Napoli (EdiSES) 2015.
3) L.Braccesi, Guida allo studio della storia greca, Roma-Bari (Laterza) 2005.
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ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY II, cod. 10595682 (ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN HISTORY II - Classics)
Programme:
A. Chaniotis, Age of Conquest. The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian (336 BC - AD 138), London (Profile Books) 2018, pp. 1-232 (chapters 1-10).
A. Erskine (ed.), A Companion to the Hellenistic World, Malden MA - Oxford (Blackwell) 2003, pp. 1-15 (chapter 1); 177-245 (chapters 11-14); 294-404 (chapters 18-23)
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Greek History (part of Greek and Roman History, code 1049672, for Primary education sciences)
Programme:
1) V. Saldutti; A. Visconti, Storia antica. Vicino Oriente, Grecia, Roma, Napoli, Tiotinx Ed. 2020, pp. 1-186 [ISBN: 9788894484915].
2) Two books of your choice from the Histories of Herodotus. One of the two will be presented in the form of a Learning Unit for primary school children. Non-attending students will submit a short paper (PowerPoint or Word) with the teaching project no less than ten days before the exam.
GREEK HISTORY ADVANCED I (cod. 1038385)
Programme:
1) Ancient sources available in class and uploaded on the teacher's drive at the end of the module.
2) D.Musti, L'economia in Grecia, Roma-Bari (Laterza) 1981.
3) A.Bresson, The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy, Princeton (UP) 2016, pp. 118-380.

Those who have not already taken a core examination will take the Bachelor's degree module (code 1044214) and follow that syllabus.
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GREEK EPIGRAPHY (code 1031852)
Programme:
1) Ancient texts distributed during lessons and uploaded to the lecturer's drive.
2) M. Nocita, Epigrafia greca, Milan (Monduzzi Editoriale) 2025
3) M. Guarducci, L'epigrafia greca dalle origini al tardo impero, Rome (Poligrafico) 1987, pp. 91-96; 111-123; 213-217; 254-258; 346-352; 359-361; 379-389.
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ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY
(ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN HISTORY cod. 10599023 for Mediterranean Archaeology)
Programme:
A.Bresson, The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy: Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States, Princeton (University Press) 2015, chapters IX-XV, pp. 225-438; 500-530.

Francesco Guizzi è Professore Associato di Storia greca (GSD: 10/STAN-01 - STORIA GRECA E ROMANA. SSD: STAN-01/A - Storia greca. Settore ERC: SH6_8: Ancient history, medieval history) presso il Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità (Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia) dell'Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' dal 30 dicembre 2010. Ha afferito al Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche Archeologiche Antropologiche dell'Antichità (poi di Scienze dell'Antichità) come Ricercatore Universitario dal 1. febbraio 1994. Ha conseguito l'abilitazione alla 1. fascia della docenza (ASN) il 3/8/2018.
Insegna Storia greca in Corsi di Laurea e Laurea Magistrale. Dal 2017/18 è anche docente di Greek History per il corso telematico della Laurea Magistrale in Classical Archaeology (Unitelma - Sapienza). È membro del collegio dei docenti del Dottorato in Filologia e Storia del Mondo Antico. Insegna Epigrafia e Antichità Greche presso la Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici del Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità.
È stato Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ - USA) - School of Historical Studies nel Second term (january, 12th - april, 14th 2017).
È responsabile dell'Unità di Ricerca epigrafica dell'Università di Roma 'La Sapienza' presso la Missione Archeologica Italiana a Hierapolis di Frigia (Pamukkale - Turchia). Partecipa come referente del team epigrafico agli scavi archeologici turchi di Laodicea presso il Lico condotti dal Prof. Celal Şimşek della Pamukkale Üniversitesi (Denizli) e quello di Tripolis al Meandro (Yenicekent) diretto dal Prof. Dr. Bahadır Duman (della stessa Università).
Ha collaborato al Copenhagen Associations Project ed è parte del progetto internazionale Los dioses de Anatolia y sus nombres (continuidad, importación, interacción): una aproximación filológica y lingüística (GOAP), diretto da I. Adiego (Universitat de Barcelona), nell'unità di ricerca: Los dioses de Anatolia y sus nombres en textos griegos de época helenística y romana (dir. M.P. de Hoz García y Bellído, Universidad Complutense, Madrid). Ha coordinato Unità di Ricerca in progetti MIUR e numerosi progetti della Sapienza.
Ha scritto più di settanta articoli, quattro monografie e ha curato due volumi.