My stay at the Center for Hellenic Studies aimed at the completion of a new collection of inscriptions with full linguistic and historical commentary for the Paradeigmata collection (Nancy, Guy Vottéro dir.). This volume, the sixth in the series, fascicle fourth, provides a comprehensive exploration of the Doric-speaking islands of… Read more
Abstract The end of the honorific statue production, after almost 1,000 years, has a large ‘ecology’ of reasons that made the statue habit no longer reasonable, meaningful, or sustainable. There is, however, no comprehensive book-length evaluation that identifies and scrutinizes the multifaceted reasons, certainly none that places cultural changes in… Read more
My project examines the concept of “womanhood” in ancient atomism and the philosophical contributions of female atomistic philosophers in Greece and Rome. Accordingly, I am pursuing two interrelated research objectives (ROs). With the first (RO1), I aim to reconstruct how male atomists conceived of female nature by analysing three key… Read more
The Classical period represents the peak of the joint cult of Pan and the Nymphs in Attica. [1] The deities were honored together in the caves located in the asty, on the north slope of the Acropolis and elsewhere, as well as in several caves… Read more
Abstract Although it is relatively common to see references to speech acts or the work of speech act theorists in literary criticism, the transition of this term from its theoretical home in the philosophy of language to its applied use has not always been straightforward. This project reviews the principles… Read more
