Professional Summary
Giulia is a PhD candidate specializing in Aegean Prehistory. She is interested in a multidisciplinary approach to Linear B texts, and her current research focuses primarily on Mycenaean religion and palatial control of labor and craft production. For her PhD dissertation, she is working on the Linear B deposits from the West Central Insula at the Palace of Knossos, integrating archaeological, pinacological, epigraphic, linguistic, and philological analysis.
She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rome La Sapienza with a BA in Classics and an MA in Philology, Literature and History of the Ancient World. Her BA and MA thesis, both in Mycenaean philology, focused respectively on Mycenaean religion and cultivation of aromatic plants.
She took part in archaeological projects in Greece, including the Palace of Nestor Excavations at Pylos (2019-2023), the KLASP - Knossos Legacy and Sustainability Project at the Knossos Research Centre of the British School of Athens (2024), and the excavations at the Mycenaean palace of Kydonia in Crete (2025).
For the AY 2025-2026, she is the Mylonas Shear Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
Paglione, G. (2024. ) “Tales from a Broken Archive: Craft Production and Organization of Labor at Mycenae at the End of the Late Bronze Age” .No (e)scape from Bits and Pieces. Towards an Archaeology of Fragmentation in the Aegean Bronze Age. Proceedings of the 5th International Graduate Student Conference Scapecon, edited by T. Claeys, L. Dautais, R. Dubois, K. Regnier, J. Tsafou, D. Vendramin, and D. Wolf, AEGIS Series, Presses universitaires de Louvain 2024., ,
Presentations
Paper Presentations
Paglione, G. (2023. ) “Building Roads in the Kingdom of Nestor? Some Thoughts on the Role of to-ko-do-mo in PY An 35” .AIA, New Orleans.
Paglione, G. (2022. ) “Tales from a Broken Archive: Craft Production and Organization of Labor at Mycenae at the End of the Late Bronze Age” .ScapeCon2022, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Paglione, G. (2020. ) “Reconstructing the Landscape through the Linear B Texts: The Case of Coriander Cultivation in Phaistos” .ScapeCon2020.
Paglione, G. (2019. ) "Ko-ri-ja-do-no & KO: the Industry of Coriander in the Mycenaean World" .Lectio Magistralis for the Graduate students of Aegean Prehistory. University of Rome La Sapienza.
Paglione, G. (2025. ) The God who Shook the Sea: e-ne-si-da-o-ne and the Impact of Theran Eruption on Cretan Religion .University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Paglione, G. (2025. ) Early Knossian State in the Making: Palatial Control of Craft and Labor in the Linear B evidence from the Room of the Chariot Tablets .Paris, France.
Paglione, G. (2025. ) The Making of AROMA: Reevaluating an Incense Burner Motif across Aegean Scripts, Iconography, and Archaeology .Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, UK.
F. Aurora, G. Paglione, G. Bodard, C. Cenati, M. Filosa, E. Mylonas, N. White (2025. ) Born Digital Editions of the Mycenaean Documents Using EpiDoc .Madrid, Spain.