Associate Professor of Classical Studies
About
Francesca Schironi is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. She has published extensively on Hellenistic scholarship in scholia and papyri, including lexica (with From Alexandria to Babylon. Near Eastern Languages and Hellenistic Erudition in the Oxyrhynchus Glossary (P.Oxy. 1802 + 4812), Berlin-New York 2009).
Among her most recent publications is a book on the methodology of Aristarchus of Samothrace (The Best of the Grammarians: Aristarchus of Samothrace on the Iliad, Ann Arbor 2018). She is now interested in Hellenistic astronomy and is preparing an edition with translation and commentary of Hipparchus’ Commentary on Aratus and Eudoxus. Her other interest is the language of Greek science and is working on a monograph on the topic.
