Thomas Braccini

Tommaso Braccini teaches Classical Philology and Greek Language and Literature at the University of Siena. He studies the folkloric heritage of antiquity and the Byzantine Middle Ages, and the texts that transmit it; his publications include Before Dracula: Archaeology of the Vampire (2011); Investigation of the Ogre: Myths and Stories of the Child-Eater (2013); Antonino Liberale, The Metamorphoses (2018, with S. Macrì); Lupus in fabula: Fairy Tales, Legends, and Jokes in Greece and Rome (2018); Byzantium Before Byzantium: Myths and Foundations of New Rome (2019); Poor Leo. Ptocholeon (2020).