Stefania De Vido

Former student of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and the Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici di San Marino, Stefania De Vido is a professor of Greek history at the University Ca' Foscari Venezia. She is a member of the scientific council of the Italian Institute for Ancient History; and she directs the journals Axon and Ricerche Ellenistiche. Her research focuses on the history of Sicily, from archaic times to the Roman period; on social history and the definition of aristocracies between the archaic and classical periods; on Greek historiography (particularly Herodotus, Thucydides, and Diodorus of Sicily); and on epigraphy, with a special interest in the history of the discipline and digital applications.

The project

Title: Les nouveaux arrivants. Construction et définition du corps social dans les apoikiai grecques de l'âge archaïque et classique

"This project focuses on groups or individuals arriving in the Greek poleis founded in the ancient Mediterranean (apoikiai) at a significant temporal distance from the stable establishment of the foundation (ktisis). My goal is to systematically illustrate the processual aspect of the colonial experience, highlighting the experiences and actors that can be included in the general typology of "new arrivals." Studying these groups can contribute to reflections on the definition of social hierarchy, on the relationships between the social body and the political body, and on the formation of the aristocracy in the colonial world, with particular attention to institutional and property aspects (urban and rural spaces).

It is therefore a synthetic reflection on the intersections between the political dimension, social dimensions, topographical expression, and the definition of territorial space in colonial contexts, aiming to demonstrate that the political body and the social body are not two separate and independent horizons. On the contrary, it is within their more or less conflicting dialectics that the most dynamic and transformative elements of the ancient city reside."

Hosting institution: Anthropologie et histoire des mondes antiques - Anhima, Paris.

Selective Bibliography

• Gli Elimi. Storie di contatti e di rappresentazioni, Pisa 1997
• Le guerre di Sicilia, Roma 2013.
• Iscrizioni greche. Un’antologia, a cura di C. Antonetti, S. De Vido, Roma 2017.
• M. Bettalli, S. De Vido, Storia greca. Fonti e interpretazioni, Roma 2022.
• Un monde partagé: la Sicile du premier siècle av. J.-C. entre Diodore et Cicéron, printed by Stefania De Vido and Cécile Durvye, Venezia 2023.