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The reception would’ve been a lot simpler if Virgil had just made Dido the star from the beginning.
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      Neo-latin literature, Latin Epic, Aeneid
Panorama sulle relazioni presentate al corso d'aggiornamento e presenti nel libro.
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      Classics, Late Antiquity, Flavian Literature, Latin Epic
This article offers a thorough study of Virgil's interaction with the myth of Eteocles and Polynices' war for the throne of Thebes, as represented especially in Athenian tragedy. It demonstrates that allusions to the Theban myth are... more
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      Roman History, Greek Tragedy, Augustan Poetry, Poetry
Gli interpreti di Ovidio hanno da tempo riconosciuto la ripetizione come una delle cifre stilistiche delle Metamorfosi e ne hanno discusso la funzione (Ahl 1985; Nagle 1988; Konstan 1991; Feldherr 2016; James 2016). Secondo Galinsky... more
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      Latin Epic, Vergil, Propertius, Ovid (Classics)
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      Latin Literature, Latin Epic, Lucan
In Lucan's Imperial World: The Bellum Civile in Its Contemporary Contexts, Laura Zientek and Mark Thorne (eds), Bloomsbury Academic.
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      Neronian Literature, Latin Epic, Lucan, Monumentality
Forthcoming 2020
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      Classics, Latin Literature, Homer, Neronian Literature
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      Latin Epic, John Milton, Epic poetry, Torquato Tasso
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      Hagiography, Neo-latin literature, Latin Epic, Josaphat Kuncewicz
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      Latin Literature, Violence, Renaissance Studies, Heroes
The thesis reviews the techniques employed by Latin authors up to the second century A.D. to report the spoken words and articulated thoughts of their characters. The study is principally devoted to continuous narratives of a fictitious... more
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      Latin Literature, Ancient Novel, Narratology, Latin Epic
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      Textual Criticism, Flavian Literature, Latin Epic, Silius Italicus
M. Annaei Lucani Belli civilis liber VII. A cura di Nicola Lanzarone. Firenze: Felice le Monnier 2016. IX, 617 S. (Bibliotheca Nazionale. Serie dei Classici Greci e Latini. Testi con commento filologica.) 22,50 €.
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      Classics, Latin Literature, Neronian Literature, Latin Epic
roman calendar for the month Interkalaris
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      Latin Literature, Roman History, Roman Religion, Latin Epic
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      Latin Epic, Greek Epic, Greek and Roman Epic, Flavian Epic
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      Civil War, Latin Epic, Latin Imperial Epic
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      Classics, Seneca, Intertextuality, Flavian Literature
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      Latin Epic, Lucan, Lucanus
La fortuna della ciclizzazione del Girart de Vienne: tracce e riutilizzi diacronici dei cicli proposti da Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube. Incontro a posteriori fra epica cavalleresca ed epica classica greca e latina in Studi sulla Letteratura... more
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      Latin Epic, Greek Epic, Epic poetry, Classical Reception Studies
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      Latin Literature, Flavian Literature, Statius (Classics), Latin Epic