is a Professor of Greek History in the Department of Literary, Philological and Linguistic Studies at the University of Milan

Michele Faraguna, born in Trieste in 1959, studied at the University of Trieste, where he graduated with a degree in Classical Literature, and at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, where he obtained a PhD in Ancient History. He was a researcher and lecturer at the University of Trieste before becoming a full professor of Greek History at the University of Milan in 2015. He has undertaken research periods at Princeton, Oxford and Athens. His research interests include Greek history (political, institutional and administrative), economic history, Greek law, public archives and the uses of writing in the Greek world, Macedonia, Alexander the Great and early Hellenism, and the concept of citizenship in terms of philosophical reflection, institutional aspects and society in the Greek polis. He is co-editor of “Dike. Rivista di diritto greco ed ellenistico”.