Federica Nicolardi (Naples): 'The Philosophical Conversation of a Seleucid King'

Federica Nicolardi (Naples) will be giving a talk at Corpus Christi College (organised through the Corpus Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity) at 5-6:30pm on Friday of week 6 in South Range 1. The talk is titled "The Philosophical Conversation of a Seleucid King (from PHerc 1044, Vita Philonidis)."

Federica Nicolardi is assistant professor of papyrology at the University of Naples Federico II and a member of the Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi "M. Gigante." Her research primarily focuses on the Herculaneum papyri, with a special emphasis on critical editions and virtual restoration techniques. Nicolardi collaborates with Brent Seales’ project on digital restoration of Herculaneum papyri at the University of Kentucky, supervising the local team imaging all the opened Herculaneum papyri preserved at the National Library of Naples. She is also the lead papyrologist of the Vesuvius Challenge.