My research focuses on Latin language and literature: in particular, my interests include archaic Latin theatre (Plautus, comedy), ethic and political thought (Seneca, Cicero, Lucretius), theory and practice of beneficium, pragmatics of communication, symbolic representations of relationships such as kinship, amicitia, citizenship. A further area of interest is the study of Roman mythical lore, as a tool capable of conveying and handing down models of thinking and patterns of behaviour (with special regard to communication, time, space).