Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23 Introduction Although archaeological research has revealed a densely occupied landscape on the coastal and the hilly zone of Crete during the Bronze Age, the uplands have been largely overlooked despite comprising almost 50% of the total area of the island. The starting point… Read more
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23 Abstract I was awarded a CHS Early Career Fellowship for 2022-2023 in support of my research on Mimnermus, the outcome of which is a new, literary commentary on the elegist, just published in Aris and Phillips Classical Texts—indeed the first volume on lyric poetry… Read more
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2021–22 The CHS pre-doctoral fellowship has represented for me an extremely important appointment both for my personal growth and the progression of my academic career. At this stage of my PhD, I am on the verge of revising my manuscript with the precious support of… Read more
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2021–22 The aim of my proposed research during the pre-Doctoral fellowship on Hellenic Studies was the investigation of the authorial interventions of Dionysius of Halicarnassus in the narration of the conspiracies throughout the Antiquitates Romanae; mainly the first eleven books, because of the fragmentation of the rest of the oeuvre. Dionysius’… Read more
Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies 2021–22 Abstract This research examines maidens’ somatised emotional responses to womanhood in antiquity, as this is described in the Hippocratic texts, vis-a-vis hysteria in fin de siècle Europe. It examines the sociocultural contexts that gave rise to these female maladies, as well as to their medical diagnoses and proposed… Read more
