Federica Scicolone is a philologist specializing in Greek epigram, with interests in the impact of the literary practice on the epigraphic one, and in the interaction between text and object. She is currently Research Fellow at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples, where she leads the project “Developing Fictional Notions of the Gods in Greek Religious Texts from the Hellenistic Period” (2023-2026). This project investigates the multifarious ways in which divine entities are conceived, described, and addressed in selected epigrams and hymns from Greece, Magna Graecia and Asia Minor. Dr Scicolone is also Research Collaborator at the University of Cyprus, where is works with by Prof. M. Ypsilanti on completing a critical edition with commentary of the epigrams of Gregory of Nazianzus from Book 8 of the Greek Anthology, which is under contract with Oxford University Press. She holds a PhD in Classics from King’s College London (2018), and after that she held teaching and research appointments at King’s College London, University College London, the University of Cyprus and the University of Pavia, as well as residential fellowships at the Moore Institute, University of Galway, and the British School at Athens. Her first monograph, with title “The Language of Objects: Deixis in Descriptive Greek Epigrams”, has been recently published (Leiden: Brill, 2023).