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Manuel Tröster é Assessor Científico na Sede Central da Sociedade Max Planck (MPG) em Munique. Estudou História e Ciências Políticas na Universidade de Trier, em Londres e Cambridge, obteve o grau de doutor em História Antiga (tese: Themes, Character, and Politics in Plutarch’s Life of Lucullus. The Construction of a Roman Aristocrat, Trier 2006) e desenvolveu um projeto de pós-doutoramento sobre Plutarco e a Roma médio-republicana em Coimbra e Lovaina. Em seguida, começou a trabalhar na administração científica, primeiro no Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Viena), depois na Junge Akademie (Berlim) e, desde 2016, na MPG. A sua área de pesquisa engloba a história da República romana, as relações interestatais na antiguidade e as Vidas de Plutarco.

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Manuel Tröster is Scientific Officer at the Administrative Headquarters of Max Planck Society (MPG) in Munich. Having studied History and Politics at the University of Trier as well as in London and Cambridge, he earned a doctoral degree in Ancient History (thesis: Themes, Character, and Politics in Plutarch’s Life of Lucullus. The Construction of a Roman Aristocrat, Trier 2006), and went on to conduct a postdoctoral project on Plutarch and mid-Republican Rome at Coimbra and Leuven. Subsequently, he started working in research administration, first at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Vienna), then at the Junge Akademie (Berlin), and, since 2016, at MPG. His research interests include Roman Republican history, ancient interstate relations, and Plutarch’s Lives.