Dr. Leonardo Costantini

Leonardo Costantini (BA, 2011 and MA, 2013: Perugia; PhD, 2016: Leeds) is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg with a stipend from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung. His research focuses on the textual and literary aspects of Apuleius’ Apologia and Metamorphoses, Petronius’ Satyrica, and other works of the Second Sophistic and their socio-cultural background. He is currently preparing a new commentary on Apuleius’ Metamorphoses book III for the ‘Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius’ Metamorphoses’ (GCA).