The recently discovered text that has been attributed to Posidippus has reopened the debate on the opposition/conflation of the arts of poet and engraver in ancient literature. In this paper I attempt to elucidate the  Aeschylus' last trip to Sicily…

  What are we talking about when we talk about the ‘monsters’ of ancient Greeks? Whereas some scholars of cultural studies think of the ‘monstrous’ as a universal category, extendable to languages and cultures different one from another, c…

The relationship between katabasis and memory is represented by the myth of Pirithous in Hades, as suggested by Pirithous attributed to Critias. The meeting between Pirithous, seated on the throne of Oblivion, and Heracles takes the form of a dialo…

Gnesippus was a tragic didaskalos and was not a lyric poet, as ancient witness testify.

Gnesippo era un didaskalos tragico e non un poeta lirico, secondo l’esame delle testimonianze antiche che lo riguardano.

 The choral song of Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae (ll. 947-1000) is one of the most significant examples – in the ancient Greek theatre – of choreia, the harmonious synthesis of words, music, song and dance. In this paper we propose a hypothet…

 L'articolo propone una reinterpretazione di Aristofane, Lisistrata 672-681, basata sull’osservazione della struttura retorica del passo e delle sue relazioni con i temi e gli spunti comici di questi versi. Dal punto di vista tematico, il …

 Some remarks on a recent edition of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata. 
 Osservazioni su una recente edizione della Lisistrata di Aristofane. 

 Some remarks on Simone Beta’s recent Italian translation of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata for the series edited by the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. 

 The paper focuses on the contexts and meanings of the terms ἄτοπος and ἀτοπία in 5th century Attic theatre (Euripides' Ion and Iphigenia in Tauris; Aristophanes' Acharnians, Birds, Frogs and Ecclesiazusae) and aims at an appreciation…

 The study proposes an overall analysis of Senecan theatrical communication, which takes into account all the elements of the communicative process, both verbal and non-verbal. The latter, in particular, as they tend to be translated into images, bri…

 The article discusses the verses of Terence's Eunuchus in which the young Chaerea describes a painting displayed in the house of the courtesan Thais and depicting the myth of Jupiter and Danae. The passage presents a series of interpretative difficult…

 In the wonderful natural setting of the Segesta theater, the confession of the classical tragic heroine – it’s a monologue written by Maria Letizia Compatangelo – is performed by an extraordinary Elena Bucci at the first light of dawn.  Continua a leggere

 On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Bologna University’s Dams (1971-2021), this contribution recalls its foundation by Benedetto Marzullo. It is a micro-history that highlights the extraordinary talents of the famous classical ph…

The recently discovered text that has been attributed to Posidippus has reopened the debate on the opposition/conflation of the arts of poet and engraver in ancient literature. In this paper I attempt to elucidate the emergence of technical expressi…