An invitation to the Bryn Mawr Classical Colloquium is a perfect occasion to discuss work in progress with a highly stimulating audience. Last week, I had the chance to share my reading of Achilles’ Shield with undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty from classics and classical archaeology departments. I argued that… Read more
Similar to other fellows, in my first post I am presenting my main research project. In the course of nearly a decade, the interest in and knowledge about the epic material attributed to Eumelus of Corinth has grown remarkably. On this area, I myself have endeavored to contribute via a… Read more
Hello! Let me get back for a moment to the provisional index of my book on the Phaedrus, which I outlined in my previous post: Introduction Prelude: Plato’s self-disclosing strategies: survey and new insights Chapter 1, ‘STESICHORE’: Stesichorus and the palinode Chapter 2, ‘SAPPHO’: Gorgias, lyric poetry and philosophical rhetoric… Read more
Hi everybody, I have given my research talk and I have started discussing my work and other topics with a number of people: this is proving truly exciting and I thank them all. To my delight, some of them seem to be surprisingly keen on a few of my… Read more
During these first three months of my fellowship, I have been working on an interpretation of the description of Achilles’ Shield in Iliad XVIII. My intention is to link this famous passage with other demiurgical motives found in mythological and philosophical texts, namely Hesiod’s Theogony, Parmenides’ poem, Empedocles’ cosmogony, and… Read more
