Pietro Zaccaria

KU Leuven, Department of Ancient History, Post-Doc

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Pietro Zaccaria is a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) at the Ancient History Research Group of KU Leuven. He received an MA (2013) in classical philology and ancient history from the Università degli Studi di Padova. In 2018, he obtained a PhD in ancient history at KU Leuven with an edition and study of the fragments of the Hellenistic biographers Diocles and Demetrius of Magnesia. His research focuses on Greek (fragmentary) historiography, ancient biography, ancient philosophy, and ancient paradoxography.
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Pietro Zaccaria, 'L’abbigliamento cinico come scelta apolitica: Diogene e Aristotele', in S. Caneva – A. Coppola (eds.), 'Fisicità e voce, gesto e ornamento nella comunicazione politica greca fra VI e IV sec. a.C.', Padova: Cleup, 2024, forthcoming.

Pietro Zaccaria, Sulle orme di Felix Jacoby tra continuità e innovazione. Cronaca del convegno “The ‘Fragments’ of ‘Greek Historians’ – Jacoby and Beyond”, Leiden, 7-8 settembre 2023, in “Orbis Terrarum: Journal of Historical Geography of the Ancient World”, 21, 2023, 275-281.

Pietro Zaccaria, Pseudo-Aristotle, 'De mirabilibus auscultationibus' 122-138 and Theopompus’ 'Philippica', in S. Schorn – R. Mayhew (eds.), Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian 'Mirabilia', London – New York: Routledge, 2024, 86-146.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Diocle di Magnesia tra text e cover-text. Editio princeps e communes opiniones", in G. Ottone (ed.), "'Historiai para doxan'. Documenti greci in frammenti: nuove prospettive esegetiche",Themata 19, Tivoli (Roma): Tored, 2017, 203-231.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Distinguishing Homonymous Writers, Detecting Spurious Works: Demetrius of Magnesia’s On Poets and Authors with the Same Name", in R. Berardi – M. Filosa – D. Massimo (eds.), "Defining Authorship, Debating Authenticity", Berlin - Boston: De Gruyter, 2021, 67-83.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Plu. Mor. 734 B e le Efemeridi di Alessandro", in "Sileno: Rivista di Studi Classici e Cristiani" 38, 2012, 313-315.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Alessandro Magno, Eracle e Cos meropide (Strabo 15, 1, 3; 33. Plin., NH 6, 59)", in "Rationes Rerum: Rivista di filologia e storia" 3, 2014, 93-106.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Rediscovering Theopompos: Neglected Evidence of the Meropis", in "Aevum: Rassegna di Scienze Storiche Linguistiche e Filologiche" 90 (1), 2016, 51-70.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Citazioni poetiche nei frammenti di Diocle di Magnesia: tra poesia, filosofia e storiografia", in "Erga-Logoi: Rivista di storia, letteratura, diritto e culture dell’antichità" 4 (1), 2016, 119-141.

This paper deals with three fragments of the Hellenistic biographer Diokles of Magnesia in which ... more This paper deals with three fragments of the Hellenistic biographer Diokles of Magnesia in which he ascribes three poetic quotations from Sophokles and Homer to three philosophers, namely Aristippos, Diogenes of Sinope and Krates. These attributions, which are presented as ipsissima verba uttered by the philosophers themselves, were probably inserted by Diokles in order to defend his personal philosophical views.

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Pietro Zaccaria, "Antisthenes the Ἁπλοκύων. A Critical and Exegetical Note on Diogenes Laertios 6,13", in "Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft" 40, 2016, 141-167.

Pietro Zaccaria, "The First Dog: Diogenes (Aristot. Rhet. 3,10,1411a24-25)", in "Hermes: Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie" 145 (3), 2017, 364-370.

Pietro Zaccaria, "The Murderers of Kotys the Thracian: From Demosthenes to Diogenes Laertios", in "Mnemosyne: A Journal of Classical Studies" 72 (1), 2019, 66-83.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Jason of Nysa and Jason of Argos", in "Rivista Storica dell’Antichità" 49, 2019, 7-23.

Pietro Zaccaria, "An Almost-Forgotten Greek Grammarian: Hestiaios of Amisos, or Hestiaios Pontikos", in "Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica" 148 (1), 2020, 135-144.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Jason of Argos and the Foundation of Alexandria", in "Rivista Storica dell’Antichità" 50, 2020, 49-63.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Did On Famous Men Literature Before Nepos Include Generals? The Case of Amphikrates of Athens", in "Ancient Society" 51, 2021, 245-258.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Stratti di Olinto: uno storico di Alessandro Magno nella Suda", in "Histos: The On-line Journal of Ancient Historiography" 16, 2022, 42-64.

Il presente articolo mira a difendere l'attendibilità testuale e storica del lemma della Suda (s.... more Il presente articolo mira a difendere l'attendibilità testuale e storica del lemma della Suda (s.v. Στράττις, Σ Adler) relativo allo storico Stratti di Olinto (FGrHist/BNJ). L'analisi mette in luce come lo scetticismo con cui la critica più recente ha guardato a tale lemma non risulti giustificato. Il passo della Suda rappresenta una preziosa testimonianza che permette di ricostruire, nelle sue linee essenziali, il profilo di uno storico di Alessandro Magno che visse in età ellenistica e fu autore di almeno tre opere: Sulle Effemeridi di Alessandro, in cinque libri; Sui fiumi, le fonti e i laghi; e Sulla morte di Alessandro.

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Pietro Zaccaria, "The Fragments of Alexander’s Ephemerides Reconsidered: New Evidence from Plutarch’s Corpus", in "Aevum: Rassegna di Scienze Storiche Linguistiche e Filologiche" 96 (1), 2022, 121-150.

Demokritos and the Sacrifice of the Ox (Diog. Laert. 9.35–36)

by Francesco Verde and Pietro Zaccaria

Ariston of Chios’ Meeting with Polemon and Zenon’s Illness: An Exegetical Note on Diog. Laert. 7,162

by Francesco Verde and Pietro Zaccaria

Pietro Zaccaria, "Plu. Mor. 734 B e le Efemeridi di Alessandro", in "Sileno: Rivista di Studi Classici e Cristiani" 38, 2012, 313-315.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Alessandro Magno, Eracle e Cos meropide (Strabo 15, 1, 3; 33. Plin., NH 6, 59)", in "Rationes Rerum: Rivista di filologia e storia" 3, 2014, 93-106.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Rediscovering Theopompos: Neglected Evidence of the Meropis", in "Aevum: Rassegna di Scienze Storiche Linguistiche e Filologiche" 90 (1), 2016, 51-70.

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Pietro Zaccaria, "Antisthenes the Ἁπλοκύων. A Critical and Exegetical Note on Diogenes Laertios 6,13", in "Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft" 40, 2016, 141-167.

Pietro Zaccaria, "The First Dog: Diogenes (Aristot. Rhet. 3,10,1411a24-25)", in "Hermes: Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie" 145 (3), 2017, 364-370.

Pietro Zaccaria, "The Murderers of Kotys the Thracian: From Demosthenes to Diogenes Laertios", in "Mnemosyne: A Journal of Classical Studies" 72 (1), 2019, 66-83.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Jason of Nysa and Jason of Argos", in "Rivista Storica dell’Antichità" 49, 2019, 7-23.

Pietro Zaccaria, "An Almost-Forgotten Greek Grammarian: Hestiaios of Amisos, or Hestiaios Pontikos", in "Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica" 148 (1), 2020, 135-144.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Jason of Argos and the Foundation of Alexandria", in "Rivista Storica dell’Antichità" 50, 2020, 49-63.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Did On Famous Men Literature Before Nepos Include Generals? The Case of Amphikrates of Athens", in "Ancient Society" 51, 2021, 245-258.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Stratti di Olinto: uno storico di Alessandro Magno nella Suda", in "Histos: The On-line Journal of Ancient Historiography" 16, 2022, 42-64.

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Demokritos and the Sacrifice of the Ox (Diog. Laert. 9.35–36)

by Francesco Verde and Pietro Zaccaria

Ariston of Chios’ Meeting with Polemon and Zenon’s Illness: An Exegetical Note on Diog. Laert. 7,162

by Francesco Verde and Pietro Zaccaria

Monica Berti - Pietro Zaccaria, "Digital Paradoxography: Toponyms in Paradoxographical Texts", presented at the International Workshop “Nomina Omina. Detecting and Preserving Ancient Greek and Latin Proper Names in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”, Universität Leipzig, 27-29 June 2024.

Networking through Proems: Proemial Strategies for Intellectual Networking in Antiquity

by Kasra Abdavi Azar, Marco Pelucchi, Pietro Zaccaria, and Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

LECTIO workshop (KU Leuven), 12 September 2023

Proemial passages represent the place par excellence where writers create intellectual networks. ... more Proemial passages represent the place par excellence where writers create intellectual networks. Through proems, authors can establish, maintain, or break intellectual connections with other figures, institutions, or traditions, and thereby situate their works and themselves within a larger intellectual discourse and within their social, political, and cultural environment. This workshop brings together scholars of history, literature, philosophy, and theology in order to explore the strategies used in ancient proems (from the Classical to the Byzantine periods) to create intellectual networks

https://www.kuleuven.be/lectio/events/networking-through-proems

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Literary Criticism in Ancient Historiography, Panel 10 at the Conference in Classics & Ancient History 22-25 June 2021, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Coimbra

by Ivan Matijasic, Sergio Brillante, Larisa Ficulle Santini, Carmen Sanchez-Mañas, Manolis Spanakis, Denis Correa, Pietro Zaccaria, Elisa Migliore, and Edoardo Galfré

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Pietro Zaccaria, 'How to Write the Life of a Peripatetic (Diog. Laert. 5,36-57)', presented at the Séminaire Historiographies antiques, Université Paris Nanterre – UMR 7041 ArScAn – équipe THEMAM, 14/12/2024.

P. Zaccaria, 'The Life of Theophrastus (DL 5.36-41)', presented at the Workshop “The Life and Works of Theophrastus in the Ancient Biographical Tradition”, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ, 9-11 September 2024.

Pietro Zaccaria, "L’abbigliamento cinico come scelta apolitica", presented at the Giornate Internazionali di Studio: “Fisicità e voce, gesto e ornamento nella comunicazione politica greca fra VI e IV sec. a.C.”, Università deli Studi di Padova, 25-26 October 2023.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Constructing Authority in Hellenistic Collective Biographies", presented at the International Conference “Collective Biographies from Antiquity to the Middle Ages”, Leuven, 12-14 December 2022.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Constructing Philosophical Networks in Hellenistic Biography: The Origins of Stoicism", presented at the LECTIO International Conference “Networking Through Biography", Leuven, 7-9 December 2022.

Pietro Zaccaria, "I frammenti delle Successioni dei filosofi", presented at the Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica, 18 October 2022.

Pietro Zaccaria – Stefan Schorn, "The Successions of Philosophers: (Re)constructing and Transmitting the History of Philosophy in the Hellenistic Age", presented at the Lectio Summer School “STUDIUM”, Leuven, 5-6 September 2022.

Pietro Zaccaria, "The Pythagorean Notes Cited by Diogenes Laertius (8,25-33): The Role of Alexander Polyhistor as an Intermediate Source", presented at the Atelier No XI of the Projet “Pseudopythagorica: stratégies du faire croire dans la philosophie antique”, Paris, 19-20 May 2022.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Mir. 122-138 and Theopompos’ Philippika", presented at the International Conference “The Aristotelian Mirabilia”, Nice, Université Côte d’Azur, 21-23 April 2022.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Gli storici in frammenti", presented at “Memorie di Clio”, Ciclo di Seminari di Storia Greca (2021-2022), Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, 9 March 2022.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Literature and Literary Criticism in Late Hellenistic Biography", presented at the Conference in Classics & Ancient History, Coimbra, 22-25 June 2021.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Exactitude in Fragmentary Historiography? The Difficult Case of Jason of Nysa and Jason of Argos", presented at the Prolepsis’ 4th International Conference “The Limits of Exactitude”, Bari, 19-20 December 2019.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Jason of Nysa and the Foundation of Alexandria", presented at the Workshop “Working on Fragments: Direct and Indirect Traditions”, Leuven, 20 June 2019.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Nietzsche e Diogene Laerzio 150 anni dopo", presented at the Conference “‘Io non sarò uno straniero tra voi’. Nietzsche e la filologia”, Padova, Scuola Galileiana di Studi Superiori, 8-9 October 2018.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Diocle di Magnesia e Diogene Laerzio", presented at the Conference “Frammenti di storia. I Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker sulle orme di Felix Jacoby”, Padova, 31 October 2017.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Distinguishing Homonymous Writers, Detecting Spurious Works: Demetrius of Magnesia’s On Poets and Authors with the Same Name", presented at the Prolepsis’ 2nd International Postgraduate Conference "Auctor est aequivocum", Bari, 26-27 October 2017.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Who Killed Kotys the Thracian? From Aristotle to Diogenes Laertios", presented at the Forschungskolloquium, Würzburg, Institut für klassische Philologie, 27 June 2017.

Pietro Zaccaria, "The Fragments of Diokles and Demetrios of Magnesia: From Biography to Philosophy", presented at the History Postgraduate Seminar, Leuven, 25 May 2016.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Aristotle and the First “Dog”: Diogenes (Aristot. Rhet. 3,10,1411a24-25)", presented at the SIFG 2016: III International Congress of Greek Philosophy, Lisboa, 20-22 April 2016.

Pietro Zaccaria, "Diocle di Magnesia tra text e cover-text. Editio princeps e communes opiniones", presented at the Incontro Internazionale di Studi: “‘Historiai para doxan’. I documenti greci in frammenti: valore, criticità, nuove prospettive esegetiche”, Genova, 10-11 March 2016.

Pseudopythagorica, Atelier XI - Paris, 19-20 Mai 2022

by Constantinos Macris, Tiziano Dorandi, Stefan Schorn, Pietro Zaccaria, Giovanni Trovato, and Matteo Varoli

Maison des Sciences de l’Homme – 54, Boulevard Raspail – 75006 Paris salle 15 (sous-sol) Dans... more Maison des Sciences de l’Homme – 54, Boulevard Raspail – 75006 Paris
salle 15 (sous-sol)

Dans le cadre du projet "Pseudopythagorica : stratégies du faire croire dans la philosophie antique" (LabEx Hastec - LEM - Centre Jean Pépin).

PROGRAMME

Jeudi 19 mai, 14h30 – 18h

14h30
Stefan Schorn (KU Leuven)
How to Create a New Biography of Pythagoras: The 'Anonymus Diodori'

15h45
Pietro Zaccaria (KU Leuven)
The 'Pythagorean Notes' (Pythagorika Hypomnemata) Cited by Diogenes Laertius (8,25-33): The Role of Alexander Polyhistor as an Intermediate Source

17h
Constantinos Macris (CNRS, PSL, LEM - Paris)
Biographie et doxographie dans la Vie anonyme de Pythagore conservée chez Photius

18h
Discussion sur les trois ‘anonymes’

Vendredi 20 mai, 10h – 12h30

10h
Giovanni Trovato (Università di Pisa)
Ocellus of Lucania’s 'On the Nature of the Universe' and Pseudopythagorean Cosmology

11h15
Matteo Varoli (Università degli Studi di Cagliari)
Pari e Dispari: la teoria degli gnomoni nel corpus pseudopitagorico

12h30 Fin de l’Atelier

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Pietro Zaccaria, "Felix Jacoby. Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker Continued. IV A: Biography. Fascicle 5. The First Century BC and Hellenistic Authors of Uncertain Date [Nos. 1035-1045]", Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2021, xiv + 905 pp.