Sofia Bianchi Mancini is a postdoctoral researcher and Junior Fellow at the Max-Weber-Kolleg of the University of Erfurt. In addition, she is co-Principal Investigator of the project ‘Ambiguous Property: From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages’, part of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR 294/2–424638267 and funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Her research bridges Classics, Ancient History, and Religious Studies, fostering dialogue between epigraphic evidence and literary texts.

Bibliographie sélective

• Bianchi Mancini, S. forthcoming 2025. Legal Curses and Politics in Archaic and Classical Sicily. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Bianchi Mancini, S., Pérez Yarza, L. and Fogliazza, S. (Eds.). forthcoming 2025. The Roman Imperial Cult: Local Practices and the Reception of the Emperor. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Bianchi Mancini, S. forthcoming 2025. “Metroac Cultic Practices and Curses: Sensorial Experiences during the Ritual Deposition of the defixiones from Mainz”, in K. Waldner and A.-I. Rassia (Eds.), The Multi-Sensory Dimension of Mystery Cults. Berlin: De Gruyter.
• Bianchi Mancini, S. forthcoming Winter 2025. “Preservation and Change: The Ambiguous Legacy of the Syracusan ἀμφιπολία after Caesar’s policies”, in R. Raja, K. Matijević and J. Rüpke (Eds.), Caesar’s Visions and Impact on the Roman Empire: Revisiting the Archaeological and Historical Record for the 40s BC. Turnhout: Brepols.
• Bianchi Mancini, S., Di Serio, C. and Fogliazza, S. (Eds.). forthcoming Fall 2025. Reaching the Superhuman: Ritual, Communication, and Materiality in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Religion in the Roman Empire.
• Nickel, R. and Hogenmüller, B. in collaboration with Bianchi Mancini, S. and Nickel, J. 2025. Lexikon der antiken Literatur, 4th ed., fully revised. Baden-Baden: Tectum.
• Bianchi Mancini, S., Gibson, H., Schuck, D. and Vinzent, M. (Eds.). 2024. Relating to Landed Property. Frankfurt, New York: Campus. Open access: https://www.campus.de/e-books/wissenschaft/geschichte/relating_to_landed_property-18334.html.
• Bianchi Mancini, S. 2024. “Narrating Divine Property: The Case of Sacred Groves in Statian Poetry”, Annual of the Japanese Biblical Institute 49, 53-78. Open access: https://ajbi.org/ajbi_pdf/AJBI49_Bianchi_Mancini.pdf.
• Bianchi Mancini, S. 2024. “Gods’ Landed Property: Sacred Groves in Republican and Imperial Literature”, in S. Bianchi Mancini, H. Gibson, D. Schuck and M. Vinzent (Eds.), Relating to Landed Property. Frankfurt, New York: Campus. Open access: https://www.campus.de/e-books/wissenschaft/geschichte/relating_to_landed_property-18334.html.
• Rüpke, J. and Bianchi Mancini, S. 2023. Antike Epik: eine Einführung in hexametrische Großdichtung, 3rd ed., fully revised. Baden-Baden: Tectum. (Trans. Ancient Epic Poetry, Baden-Baden: Tectum, 2024; Epica Antica: Un’Introduzione, Rome: Carocci, 2025).

Contenus additionnels 

https://sfb294-eigentum.de/en/members/sofia-bianchi-mancini/

Mots clés

Classics, Classical Studies, Sicilian history, Greek and Latin epigraphy, Greek and Roman law, History of religion