Silvia Negro (1991) is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Trento within the framework of the ERC project FeBo: Federalism and Border Management in Greek Antiquity (PI: Elena Franchi). Her research focuses on Greek History and Epigraphy, with particular attention to the Athenian and Attic context. She received her PhD in Ancient Heritage Studies from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in January 2025, with a dissertation entitled The Deme of Halai Aixonides. A Study of Deme Life in Attica, awarded cum laude and the Doctor Europaeus distinction. In 2025, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Italian Archaeological School at Athens (SAIA), where she further developed this research into a monograph, currently forthcoming in the Historia-Einzelschriften series published by Franz Steiner Verlag and recipient of the Publication Prize of the Istituto Italiano per la Storia Antica.

She studied Classics (BA, 2013) and Archaeology and Ancient History (MA, 2016) at the University of Turin, completing theses in Greek History and Epigraphy. She subsequently earned a Postgraduate Specialization Diploma in Classical Archaeology from the School of Archaeology of Matera (2019). In Spring 2023 she was invited as Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the University of Ottawa (Canada), where she carried out research and academic activities within the Department of Classics and Religious Studies.

She is associated with the Scientific and Review Committee of ELA. The Epigraphic Landscape of Athens, a contributor to Attic Inscriptions Online (AIO) and a member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Axon. Iscrizioni storiche greche.

Bibliography

Monograph

• (forthcoming), Il demo di Halai Aixonides. Uno studio sulla vita demotica in Attica Historia. Einzelschriften (Franz Steiner Verlag), Stuttgart.

Articles in Class A Peer-Reviewed Journals

• 2025, Decreto del demo di Halai Aixonides per il sacerdote Polystratos e altri benemeriti, Axon 9, 43-58.
• 2024, Ricostruire il corpus epigrafico di un demo attico: problemi, metodi e nuove possibili attribuzioni per il dossier documentario di Halai Aixonides, Historikà 14, 101-119.
• 2024, Decreto attico sui doveri del demarco, Axon 8, 99‑118.
• 2023, Attic Honey: Fame, Evidence and connection with the funerary sphere, ACME 76(1), 67-84.
• 2022, Decreto di Euthemon con procedura di rendicontazione da Halai Aixonides, Axon 6(2), 2022, 47-66.

Book Chapters

• (forthcoming), Plural memories and local identities: Attic demes and the commemoration of recent conflicts, in G. Proietti and E. Rosamilia (Eds), Memory and Space in Ancient Athens and Attica (Archaic to Roman),
• (forthcoming), I toponimi nello studio del territorio antico: il caso di Halai Aixonides, in De Vido, A. Esposito, A. Pollini, C. Weber-Pallez (Eds.), Territoires multiples Espaces, définitions, expériences dans le monde grec: VIIe-Ier siècle a.C. (TeMAES I), Bordeaux.
• 2025, Il santuario di Apollo Zoster in Attica: il luogo di culto e il suo rapporto con il territorio, in D. Lefèvre-Novaro, C. Voisin (Eds.), Sanctuaires et paysages. La découverte des lieux de culte en Italie méridionale, en Sicile et dans le bassin égéen, Strasbourg, 386-395.
• 2025, Riflessioni sulla gestione del santuario attico di Apollo Zoster alla luce della documentazione epigrafica e della rilettura autoptica di IG I3 249, SAEGPapers 1, Rome, 2025, 1-16.
• 2024, Riflettere sullo spazio di un demo: il paesaggio e il territorio degli Halaieis, in A. Cristilli et al. (Eds.), Experiencing the Landscape in Antiquity 3, Oxford, 233-238.

Reviews

• 2025, Review of E. Greco, Hippodamos de Milet, Paris, Les Belles Lettres 2024, pp. 216, 53 ill., Geographia Antiqua XXXIV, 277-279.

Keywords
Athenian Democracy; Attic demes; Greek Epigraphy;