Professor Paola Ceccarelli

Professor of Ancient Greek History

Paola Ceccarelli

Paola Ceccarelli is a historian of the ancient Greek world, with a focus on the cultural history and the historiography of the classical and Hellenistic period. Before joining UCL in 2015, Paola held university posts in Switzerland (Lausanne, 1991-93), Italy (L'Aquila, 1994-2006), and England (Durham, 2006-12), and research fellowships in France (EHESS, 2009), the United States (Center for Hellenic Studies, 1998-99), Germany (Konstanz, 2009; Heidelburg, 2011), and Cambridge (2013-2015). Paola's main areas of interest include concepts of space and identity in the ancient world; ancient performance culture; and Greek historiography. She is curently working on an edition, including translation and commentary, of the Seleukid Royal Correspondence.

PhD supervision

Paola is interested in receiving research proposals from prospective students on topics including ancient Greek dance, theatre, and more generally performance culture of the ancient world; Greek historiography; Greek social and cultural history of the Classical and the Hellenistic period.

Current students: Roger Marshall and Xinjia Li

Major publications

  • Greek memories. Theories and practices, Castagnoli, L., & Ceccarelli, P. (Eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2019)
  • Letters and Communities. Studies in the Socio-Political Dimensions of Ancient Epistolography, Ceccarelli, P., Doering, L., Fögen, T., & Gildenhard, I. (Eds.), Oxford, UK and New York, USA: Oxford University Press, (2018)
  • Ancient Greek Letter-Writing: A Cultural History, Oxford (2013)
  • Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker e l'antiquaria napoletana: Carteggi Gervasio - Welcker e Minervini-Welcker, San Severo (2006)
  • La pirrica nell'antichità Greco-romana: studi sulla danza armata, Pisa - Roma (1998)

For a full list of publications, see Paola's Iris profile.

Teaching

Contact information

Email: p.ceccarelli@ucl.ac.uk

Telephone: 020 7679 3630

Office: 414, 26 Gordon Square

Student support & feedback hours: Tuesdays 2-3pm in my office, and Wednesdays 12-1pm online via Teams. Book here.

Student support & feedback hours are an opportunity for students to chat with their module tutors about their ideas, any support they might need with the module, and to go through feedback from their assessments. 

Qualifications

Perfezionamento Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 1989