Lorenzo Braccesi has been Full Professor of Greek History at the Universities of Turin, Venice, and Padua. His research focuses on Greek colonization, ideology and propaganda in the ancient world, and the legacy of classical culture in modern literature. Among his most recent publications are Julia, the Daughter of Augustus (2012); Agrippina, the Bride of a Myth (2015); and Here Come the Barbarians. The Persian Wars Between Poetry and Memory (2020).