DR. AURORA CORTI
CURRICULUM VITAE
A) STUDIES AND ACADEMIC RECORD
1. A.Y. 2001-2002: immatriculation to the Valdese Facolty of Theology, Rome.
2. A.Y. 2004-2005: 20/02/2006 first degree (‘laurea triennale’) in Philosophy awarded by ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome with 110/110 e lode and a written dissertation titled “Agostino
dossografo dell’Accademia scettica”. Chair: History of Ancient Philosophy. Tutor: Prof. E.
Spinelli; ‘Correlatore’: Prof. G. Lettieri.
3. A.Y. 2007-2008: second degree (‘laurea magistrale’) in Philosophy awarded by ‘La Sapienza’
University of Rome with 110/110 e lode and a written dissertation titled “L’Adversus Colotem
di Plutarco: una testimonianza sull’Accademia scettica”. Chair: History of Ancient Philosophy.
Tutor: Prof. A.M. Ioppolo; ‘Correlatore’: Prof. E. Spinelli.
4. A.Y. 2008-2009: admitted with a University scholarship to the PhD in Philosophy of “La Sapienza” University of Rome (‘XXIV Ciclo’).
5. A.Y. 2009-2010: attended courses and passed exams of Greek Papyrology (Naples, Prof. G.
Messeri); of Codicology and Introduction to Classical Philology (Rome, Dr. D. Bianconi and
Prof. M. Passalacqua resp.); and of Greek Paleography (Cassino Prof. E. Crisci).
6. February 2010-currently: external collaborator of the Istituto per il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche for the ‘Commessa’
PC.01.008 (Dir. Dr. G. Ranocchia).
7. A.Y. 2010-11. Courses attended and exams passed: Herculanean Papyrology (Naples, Prof. F.
Longo Auricchio) and Classical Philology (Naples, Prof. G. Abbamonte).
8. 2008-2011: PhD (first place) at the Sapienza University of Rome, with a written dissertation in
Ancient Philosophy: Epistemologia e prassi nello scetticismo greco: analisi dell’Adversus Colotem di Plutarco (supervisors: Prof. A.M. Ioppolo, Prof. E. Spinelli; final commission: Prof.
L. Cortella, Prof. R. Chiaradonna, Prof. M. Stanzione; rating: excellent]).
B) COLLABORATIONS, PRIZES AND MEMBERSHIPS
1. September 2008-currently: member of the redactional committee of “Elenchos. Rivista di studi
sul pensiero antico”.
2. October 2008: winner of the ‘A. Frajese’ Prize of the Faculty of Philosophy of Sapienza University of Rome for an essay titled “L’Adversus Colotem di Plutarco: una fonte dello scetticismo di Arcesilao”.
3. Ottobre 2009-currently: team member of the ERC Starting Grant 241184-PHerc: Interactive
edition and interpretation of various works by Epicurean and Stoic philosophers surviving at
Herculaneum in charge of a new critical edition of Epicurus, Fragments from Uncertain Books
(PHerc. 454, 908/1390, 989, 1199, 1385, 1639), in collaboration with Dr. G. Ranocchia.
C) PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONALLY ESTABLISHED CONFERENCES
1. April 2010: invited to the “Lecture du Contre Colotès de Plutarque”, École Normale Superieure
de Lyon, Lyon 9-10/04/2010.
2. September 2010, admitted to the VIIIth Seminario Papirologico Fiorentino, Florence, 20-25
September 2010.
3. 29 September-1 October 2011: Plutarco in difesa di Arcesilao e contro Colote: un valore morale dell’ἐποχή? Alcune considerazioni su adversus Colotem 1124 B, paper presented at the
IXth International Meeting of the International Plutarch Society, Ravello (Salerno).
4. 12-14 April 2012: member of the organising committe of the International Workshop Space in
Hellenistic Philosophy, Anacapri (Naples), http:// http://www.pherc.eu/documenti/PaginawebAnacapri.pdf
5. 17-21 September 2012, admitted to the International Seminar on the Trasmission of Ancient
Texts Philologia Philosophica Herbipolensis II, organised by the University of Würzburg, Institut für Klassische Philologie, and the Würzburger Zentrum für Epikureismusforschung.
6. 29 July-3 August: PHerc. 454: una ‘scorza’ di Epicuro, Sulla natura XXV (PHerc. 1420/1056),
paper presented at the 27th International Congress of Papyrology, Warsaw 28 July-3 August
2013.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
A. PUBLICATIONS IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS
1.
A. CORTI, È realmente esistita una polemica tra Arcesilao e la scuola epicurea?, «Aitia. Regards sur la culture hellénistique au XXIe siècle» 3 (2013), mis en ligne le 30 mai 2013, consulté le 30 mai 2013. URL: http://aitia.revues.org/772; DOI: 10.4000/aitia.772.
2. A. CORTI, Plutarco in difesa di Arcesilao e contro Colote: un valore morale dell'ἐποχή? Alcune considerazioni su adversus Colotem 1124 B, in G. PACE-P. VOLPE CACCIATORE (eds.), Gli
scritti di Plutarco: tradizione, traduzione, ricezione, commento, Atti del IX Convengo Internazionale dell’International Plutarch Society (Ravello, 29 Settembre-1 Ottobre 2011), Napoli: M.
D’Auria Editore, 2013, pp. 127-132.
3. A. CORTI, PHerc. 454: una ‘scorza’ di Epicuro, Sulla natura XXV (PHerc. 1420/1056), in Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology (Warsaw, 29 July-3 August 2013),
Suppl. «JJP», forthcoming.
4. A. CORTI, PHerc. 454 (Epicuro, Sulla Natura, XXV): edizione, traduzione, commento, «RhM»,
submitted.
B. BOOK-REVIEWS
1. A. CORTI, review of R. BETT (ED.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Skepticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), «Elenchos» 31 (2010), 345-352.
2. A. CORTI, review of G. CAVALLO-H. MAEHLER, Hellenistic Bookhands (Berlin-New York: de
Gruyter, 2008), http://www.syzetesis.it/Recensioni2010/HellenisticBookhands.html.
3. A. CORTI, review of P. DONINI, Commentary and Tradition. Aristotelianism, Platonism and
Post-Hellenistic Philosophy (Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2010)
http://www.syzetesis.it/Recensioni2011/Commentary%20and%20Tradition.htm.
4. A. CORTI, review of L. VAN HOOF, Plutarch's Practical Ethics. The Social Dynamics of Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press), «Philosophical Readings» 1 (2012), pp. 100-104.
5. A. CORTI, review of J. GIOVACCHINI, L’Empirisme d’Épicure (Paris: Classiques Garnier),
«Elenchos» 34 (2013), pp. 238-244.