“An ancient commentary on Thucydides in the Bodleian Library”
4:10 PM, Friday 4 April, 603 Hamilton
Dr Ivan Matijašić, Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek History at Ca’ Foscari University Venice (Italy),

Dr Ivan Matijašić is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek History at Ca’ Foscari University Venice (Italy). He received his PhD from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa in 2015 and held research and teaching positions in Münster, Newcastle, Siena, Venice (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in 2022), and the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC. His research interests span Greek historiography, ancient geography, epigraphy, and the history of classical scholarship. He has published two books (Shaping the Canons of Ancient Greek Historiography, De Gruyter 2018; Timachidas Rhodius, Brill 2020), more than thirty articles, and has edited Herodotus – The Most Homeric Historian? (Histos Supplement 2022), (with Luca Iori) Thucydides in the ‘Age of Extremes’: Academia and Politics (History of Classical Scholarship Supplement 2022), and (with Sergio Brillante) Nuovi approcci alla critica letteraria antica: tra storia e storiografia (Special Issue, Maia:Rivista di letterature classiche 75 (2023), 5-140).

He is finalising, together with Tim Rood (Oxford) and Daniel Sutton (Cambridge), a book on British classicist and politician J. Enoch Powell and Thucydides and he is working broadly on Thucydides as well as the relationship between classical scholarship and politics in the 20th century. He has a short-term Fellowship from the New York Public Library and is staying in New York from March 31 to April 18, 2025 to carry out research on the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars.