Fausto Zevi is a contemporary Italian classical archaeologist.^[1]

Presently he is professor of Archaeology and Greco-Roman art history at the University of Rome La Sapienza^[2] and has previously held posts at the University of Naples Federico II and as archaeological superintendent at Ostia, Naples, and Rome. He is a prolific scholar with more than 200 publications on archaic Rome, Roman hellenism, the topography and urban plan of Pompeii, Ostia, and Rome. He is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the German Archaeological Institute, and an honorary fellow of the British School at Rome.

Zevi was a student of Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli.

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