Marco Santini is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Classics at Princeton University, where he joined the Program in the Ancient World in fall 2016. Before coming to Princeton, he was trained at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (2011-2016) and at the University of Pisa (2011-2016), where he earned a BA (July 2014) and an MA in Classics (July 2016). Marco specializes in Greek history and epigraphy, with a particular focus on the interactions between Greeks and non-Greeks in the eastern Mediterranean (Anatolia, the Levant and Near East). Within this line of study, he devoted a substantial part of his research to the Hellenistic epigraphic poem known as the "Pride of Halikarnassos," emphasizing the role played in it by the city’s multi-ethnic background. His dissertation project focuses on early Iron Age Anatolia as a space of exchange, networking, and development of phenomena of cultural koiné.
Affiliation as of June 2025: Lecturer in Ancient History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, The University of Edinburgh.
Email: msantini@ed.ac.uk
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