Maurizio Bettini

Maurizio Bettini is an Italian philologist, anthropologist, and novelist born in 1947, renowned for his expertise in classical philology and his anthropological studies of ancient Greek and Roman cultures. He serves as a professor at the University of Siena and is the director of the Center for the Study of Anthropology and the Ancient World, where he founded the AMA center to promote interdisciplinary collaboration. Bettini has authored numerous books on mythology and anthropology and contributes regularly to Italian cultural periodicals.