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Education
PhD, University of Cincinnati
MA, Università di Pisa
BA, Università di Pisa
About Me
Tiziano Boggio is a Lecturer in Classics and Italian at Auburn University. He received his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cincinnati and holds an M.A. and B.A. in Classical Philology and Ancient History from the University of Pisa. His research focuses on Roman rhetoric and political culture, Cicero and the Late Republic, imperial Latin literature, and representations of the body in the classical tradition. His current book project, "Muta Eloquentia: The Rhetoric and Politics of Silence in Cicero and the Late Republic", examines how silence operated as a rhetorical strategy and a form of political communication during the final decades of the Roman Republic. By investigating Cicero’s speeches, rhetorical works, and correspondence, the project reveals how silence could express resistance, concealment, exclusion, and the loss of political agency at the end of the Republic. At Auburn, he teaches Latin and Italian. In his free time, he enjoys writing poetry and playing volleyball (he's still pretty good at it!)
Research Interests
Roman rhetoric and political culture; Cicero and the Late Republic; imperial Latin literature (Lucan, Ovid, Juvenal, Petronius); Greek rhetoric, historiography, and philosophy; textual criticism and literary papyrology; gender and sexuality; body metaphors in the classical tradition
Publications
“Reconsidering Lucan’s Lightning and Oak Simile in Bellum Civile 1.135–157: Caesar, Pompey and the Echo of Sulla and Marius.” The Classical Journal. Forthcoming
“P.Oxy. 77.5105, vv. 1–7: A Dionysiac Procession?” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 60 (2023): 239–254.
“A New Emendation for matavitatau in Petronius’ Satyricon.” Philologus 166 (2022): 99–117.
“Una nota su μιμούμενος in Timoteo, Persiani 70–71.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 220 (2021): 18–21.
Courses Taught
FLLN 1010: Elementary Latin 1
FLLN 1020: Elementary Latin 2
FLIT 1010: Elementary Italian 1
FLIT 1020: Elementary Italian 2