Ruggiero LIONETTI

Position
Adjunct Professor
E-mail
ruggiero.lionetti@unive.it
Website
www.unive.it/people/ruggiero.lionetti (personal record)
Office
Department of Asian and North African Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dsaam

Education

2021: Ph.D. in Classics (cum laude), Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.

2016/17: Visiting Student Researcher, University of California, Berkeley.

2015: 2nd-Cycle Diploma in Classics, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.

2015: MA in Classical Philology and Ancient History (110 cum laude), University of Pisa.

2011: BA in Literature: Classics (110 cum laude), University of Bari Aldo Moro.

 

Positions held

2022–ongoing: Research Fellow, University of Urbino Carlo Bo.

2024–ongoing: Contract Professor of Greek Language, University of Urbino Carlo Bo.

2024/25, 2025/26:  Adjunct Professor, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

 

Teaching experience (university-level)

2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26: Greek Language, BA program in Humanities, University of Urbino Carlo Bo.

2024/25, 2025/26: Greek Language Workshop for Beginners, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

February 2024: Training course within the project “La certificazione linguistica del greco antico” (tutoring), University of Urbino Carlo Bo.

November-December 2023: "Greek texts of the Hellenistic and Roman period", University of Urbino Carlo Bo.

May 2022: "Greek Prose Styles", University of Urbino Carlo Bo.

 

Research interests

Classical Philology, Greek Language and Linguistics, Greek metrics, Attic Tragedy (esp. Aeschylus and Euripides), Ancient Chorus, Poetry and Classical Reception in Byzantium, Ancient Greek didactics.

 

Publications

– «Apollo e alcuni aspetti delle azioni divine nelle Eumenidi di Eschilo», Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medioevale, forthcoming.

– «Lucian Verae Historiae 2.20 and the relative chronology of the Homeric poems», Classical Philology 118 (2023) 542–52.

– «Two polemical poems of a certain Constantine the Deacon: Against the Detractor of Chrysostom and Against the Astrologer», Medioevo Greco 23 (2023) 227–55.

– «The odes of Euripides’ Supplices [...]» (review), The Classical Review 73 (2023) 61–63.

– «A note on Euripides, Alcestis 106», The Classical Quarterly 70 (2020) 429–32.

–  «Due passi della lettera del prototrono a Costantino Porfirogenito: Areth. (?) Scr. min. 83.146.8-12, 14-21 Westerink. Con testo e traduzione annotata in appendice», Medioevo Greco 20 (2020) 143–55.

–  «The fall of Troy, the glory of Athens: Chorus and community in Euripides’ Trojan Women», in: H. Marshall, C.W. Marshall (eds.), Greek Drama V: Studies in the Theatre of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BCE (Bloomsbury: London 2020) 87–100.

–  «Lo scolio a Eur. Phoen. 1–2 e l’autenticità di Soph. El. 1. Una proposta di intervento testuale», Rheinisches Museum 162 (2019) 35–44.

– «B. Reitze, Der Chor in den Tragödien des Sophokles. Person, Reflexion, Dramaturgie, Tübingen 2017» (review), Eikasmós 29 (2018) 409-15.

–  «Testo e scena in Eschilo, Supplici 825–910 e 1018–73: una tragedia con tre cori?», Lexis 34 (2016) 59–97.

 

Language skills

Italian (native speaker); English (fluent); German (advanced reading proficiency); French (advanced reading proficiency).