2021, pp. 240
ISBN: 9788891323866
Massimo Osanna is Director General of Museums for the Italian Ministry of Culture. He was Director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park from 2014 to 2020 and Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Naples Federico II. He has previously taught at the University of Basilicata, where he managed the School of Specialisation in the Archaeological Heritage of Matera, and was a visiting professor at both the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris and the University of Heidelberg. He carried out research funded by the Humboldt Foundation at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg, and held a research fellowship at the Italian Archaeological School of Athens. He was also Superintendent for the Archaeological Heritage of Basilicata. He spent many years supervising field research in Italy (Torre di Satriano, Ascoli Satriano, Pantelleria, Taureana di Palmi, Gabii) and abroad (Alesia). He currently does research on the island of Rheneia in collaboration with the Ephoria in the Cyclades and the École française d' Athènes. He has overseen the restauration of the entire city of Pompeii, paying particular care securing hazardous structures and major buildings in order to increase the site' s safety. He has developed projects for the valorisation and accessibility in the context of the "Great Pompeii Project". He also promoted extensive research in the temples and public areas of the city, in collaboration with Italian and foreign universities and research institutes, as well as new research on Regio V. He is the author of over a hundred essays and monographs dedicated to the archaeology of Greece and Magna Graecia, as well as to the study of ancient rituals, the reconstruction of settlement patterns and the phenomena of mobility and cultural contacts.