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Antonio Panaino

Postdoctoral Researcher

Guest Scientist/ ZODIAC fellow

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antonio.panaino@unibo.it
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Università di Bologna

Prof. Dr. Antonio Panaino il full Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Bologna, Department of Cultural Heritage. As a specialist of the Pre-Islamic Iranian world, Panaino’s work focusses on the religious and intellectual history of the Achae­menid and Sasanian Empires with a strong philological approach to primary sour­ces in Avestan, Old Persian, Pahlavi, etc., with a careful attention for the intercultural phe­no­mena involving the neighbouring civilizations, such as the Babylonian, the Greek, the Indian, and the Byzantine ones. After his doctoral thesis dedicated to the cult of the star Sirius, Tištrya (Tištrya. I: The Avestan Hymn to Sirius, and II: The Iranian Myth of the Star Sirius, Rome, IsMEO, 1990, 1995) and to the Sun and the Moon in the Zoroastrian framework, he focussed some of his researches on the origin of the demonization of the planets, and to the development of the Iranian uranography (A Walk through the Iranian Heavens. For a History of an Unpredictable Dialogue between Nonspherical and Spherical Models, Irvine 2019; reprint, Brill, Leiden, 2020). Further investigations concern the afterlife (The “River of Fire” and the “River of Molten Metal”. A Historico-Theological Rafting Through the Rapids of the Christian and Mazdean Apokatastatic Falls, Wien 2021) and the esoteric dimension of the sacerdotal functions within the Mazdean liturgic tradition (Le collège sacerdotal avestique et ses dieux. Aux origines indo-iraniennes d’une tradition mimétique, Turnhout: Brepols, 2023).

 

  • Classical Lyceum in Milan (5 years)
  • Laurea in Classical Studies (with a dissertation on Avestan) at the State University of Milan 110/110 cum laude in 1984 (4 years)
  • PhD program in Iranian studies (3 years) at “l’Orientale”, the University of Naples (1985-89)
  • Diploma Is.M.E.O. of Persian Studies (1989)
  • Post-doctoral Scholarship (1991)
  • Associate Professor in Iranian Studies (since 1992)
  • Full Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Bologna, Department of Cultural Heritage (since 2000).
  • Prize R. et T. Ghirshman for the Iranian Stu­dies by the French Academy (1998)
  • Laurea ad honorem by the New Bul­ga­rian University of So­phia (2011)
  • Publication of his Kleine Schriften, 3 volumes, edited by pupils and colleagues