Prolepsis

Dear all,

Prolepsis is pleased to invite you to the 4th meeting of the 3th series of the online seminar L’editore dei testi greci e latini al lavoro. On Tuesday 8th May, 4.30 pm CEST, Dr. Marco Perale (University of Liverpool) will give a lecture on

Il progetto APHex: evoluzioni, problemi metodologici e soluzioni editoriali.

All are welcome! Please note that the working language of this event will be primarily, but not exclusively Italian.

Best wishes,

Giulia Dovico, Luisa Fizzarotti, Marco Pelucchi

Prolepsis Research Network

Dear all,

Prolepsis Research Network is delighted to invite you the fifth meeting of our seminar series NeoClassica: Texts and Perspectives from the Early Modern Classical Tradition:

Classical Literature in Neo-Latin Poetry

which will take place on April 23, at 4 pm (CEST). We are pleased to welcome the following speakers:

Ingrid De Smet (Warwick University), Angling for style: Simon Ford’s Piscatio

Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford), George Buchanan, Silvae 3: Desiderium Lutetiae

We warmly invite all interested colleagues and students to join us for the fifth session of NeoClassica and to take part in the discussion.

To receive the link please email us at [email protected].

Best wishes,

Nicoletta Bruno, Olivia Montepaone

Prolepsis Research Network

Dear all,

Prolepsis Research Network is pleased to invite you to the online launch of the volume by Marco Pelucchi:

Gli epigrammi di Platone. Studio introduttivo, edizione e commento, Milano University Press, 2026.

The book offers the first comprehensive study of the epigrams attributed to Plato, together with a new critical edition and commentary. It is available in open access on the publisher’s website.

The event will take place on Friday, April 10th, at 4:00 PM (CEST).

The meeting will be introduced by Prof. Giovanni Benedetto (Università degli Studi di Milano), and the author will be joined in conversation by Prof. Lucia Floridi (Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna). There will be time for questions and discussion with the author. The presentation will be mainly, but not exclusively, in Italian.

To receive the link, please contact:
[email protected]

We look forward to welcoming you online!

Best wishes,

Prolepsis Research Network

We are delighted to share the news of the publication of this insightful new volume on Myth in Tragic discourse. Among its editors there is Sabrina Mancuso, a speaker to many of our conferences as well as co-editor of Prolepsis volume 5 - an asset to the Prolepsis experience!

Some useful info:

“Myth in Tragic Discourse. Rhetorical and Mythopoetic Strategies in Attic Tragedy”,
a cura di Vanessa Bauer-Zetzmann & Sabrina Mancuso,
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2026.

Table of Contents

Vorwort 7
Vanessa Bauer-Zetzmann & Sabrina Mancuso

Preface 9
Vanessa Bauer-Zetzmann & Sabrina Mancuso

General Introduction 11
Vanessa Bauer-Zetzmann & Sabrina Mancuso

I Introduction: Rhetoric and Speech Acts as Dramatic Devices
Caratteri e Convenzioni Retorico-formali nella Tragedia Attica 17
Andrea Rodighiero

II Rhetoric and Stage Action in the Electra Tragedies
The Rhetoric of Bodies. Persuasion and Stage Action in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Euripides’ Electra 47
Saskia Schomber

Dynamics of Myth and Space in the ‘Electra Tragedies’ of Aeschylus and Euripides 69
Martin Bauer-Zetzmann

III Rhetoric and Mythopoiesis in Euripides’ Medea
Acting through Words. Euripides’ Medea as Seductress 93
Ronald Blankenborg

The Medea Myth in Euripides. Mythical Innovation and Metapoetry 113
Vanessa Bauer-Zetzmann

Euripides’ “Selective Amnesia” in Mythical Paradigms 133
Sabrina Mancuso

IV Rhetorical Characterization and Storytelling in Greek Tragedy
Shaping Characters through Rhetoric. Andromache vs. Helen in Euripides’ Trojan Women 147
Francesco Moles

The Rhetoric of the Maternal Breast in Greek Tragedy 161
Antonia Reinke

V Epilogue: Tragic Rhetoric and Literary Criticism
The Tragic Myth of Philoctetes in Dio Chrysostom’s Oration 52. Rhetorical Aspects in Literary Criticism 183
Christos Chatzigiannis

"Wie lässt sich die attische Tragödie neu lesen, wenn man sie als Ort rhetorischer Auseinandersetzung mit dem überlieferten Mythenrepertoire versteht? Dieser Band zeigt, wie griechische Tragödien nicht nur mythische Stoffe inszenieren, sondern sich gleichzeitig mit bestehenden Deutungen auseinandersetzen – argumentierend, kommentierend und umdeutend. Die Tragödie wird so zu einem rhetorischen Medium, in dem Mythos als Argument verhandelt wird. Der englischsprachige Sammelband untersucht zentrale rhetorische Elemente in antiken Tragödien und beleuchtet die Mytheninterpretation in der griechischen Tragödie aus neuen Perspektiven."

Dear all,

Prolepsis Research Network is delighted to invite you the fourth meeting of our seminar series NeoClassica: Texts and Perspectives from the Early Modern Classical Tradition:

The Classical Past in Early Modern Political and Historiographic Discourse

which will take place on March 26, at 4 pm (CET). We are pleased to welcome the following speakers:
Marianne Pade (Aarhus University), Arguing with the Classics: Political Use of the Exemplum
Nicoletta Bruno (Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study), Providence and Ruin: Peter Martyr d’Anghiera, Ancient Historiography, and the Fall of Tenochtitlan
Paul White (University of Leeds), Edward Wilson-Lee (University of Cambridge), “All the Books”, or Epitomizing the Classics in the Early Sixteenth Century
We warmly invite all interested colleagues and students to join us for the fourth session of NeoClassica and to take part in the discussion.

To receive the link please email us at [email protected].

Best wishes,

Nicoletta Bruno, Olivia Montepaone
Prolepsis Research Network

Dear all,

Prolepsis Research Network is delighted to invite you the third meeting of our seminar series NeoClassica: Texts and Perspectives from the Early Modern Classical Tradition:

On the path to Altertumswissenschaft 

which will take place on February 12, at 4 pm (CET). We are pleased to welcome the following speakers:
* William M. Barton (Universität Innsbruck), Perspectives on the History of the Greek Language from Charles-Benoît Hase (1780–1864)
* Giovanni Benedetto (Università degli Studi di Milano), A German edition of T. Hemsterhuis’ and D. Ruhnkenius’ writings (1839)
* Lorenzo Globoli (Università degli Studi di Milano), Friedrich Karl Kraft (1786-1866) and Teaching (Neo)Latin in the Humanistisches Gymnasium
We warmly invite all interested colleagues and students to join us for the third session of NeoClassica and to take part in the discussion.

To receive the link please email us at [email protected].

Best wishes,

Nicoletta Bruno, Olivia Montepaone

Prolepsis Research Network

Dear all,

Prolepsis is pleased to invite you to the third meeting of the 3rd series of the online seminar L’editore dei testi greci e latini al lavoro. On Tuesday 17th February, 4 pm CET, Prof. Lucia Floridi (Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna) will give a lecture on

Gli epigrammi attribuiti a Luciano di Samosata: verso una nuova edizione.

To receive the link, please send an email to [email protected].

All are welcome! Please note that the working language of this event will be primarily, but not exclusively Italian.

Best wishes,

Giulia Dovico, Luisa Fizzarotti, Marco Pelucchi

Prolepsis Research Network

Dear all,
Prolepsis Research Network is delighted to invite you the second meeting of our seminar series NeoClassica: Texts and Perspectives from the Early Modern Classical Tradition:

Rewriting Greece

which will take place on January 19, at 4 pm (CET). We are pleased to welcome the following speakers:

Raf Van Rooy (KU Leuven), Nonnum totum spirans: The Greek textual laboratory of Franciscus Nansius (ca. 1525–1595)
Tomos Evans (University of Princeton), Athenian Past and Ottoman Present: Advocating Greece’s Liberation in the Early Seventeenth Century
Olivia Montepaone (Università degli Studi di Milano), Between Plato and Aristotle. Leone Allacci and Greek Philosophy

We warmly invite all interested colleagues and students to join us for the second session of NeoClassica and to take part in the discussion.

To receive the link please email us at [email protected].

Best wishes,

Nicoletta Bruno, Olivia Montepaone

Prolepsis Research Network

Dear all,

Prolepsis is pleased to invite you to the second meeting of the 3rd series of the online seminar L’editore dei testi greci e latini al lavoro. On Thursday 18h December, 4 pm CET, Prof. Maria Chiara Scappaticcio (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) will give a lecture on

Oltre il Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (CUP 2025): la prospettiva letteraria.

To receive the link, please send an email to [email protected].

All are welcome! Please note that the working language of this event will be primarily, but not exclusively Italian.

Best wishes,

Giulia Dovico, Luisa Fizzarotti, Marco Pelucchi
Prolepsis Research Network

Nel primo incontro di Università. Dialoghi sul futuro parleremo della “Lettera aperta”, uno strumento recentemente impiegato da alcuni dipartimenti dell’Università degli Studi di Milano, rivolto alle istituzioni, alla comunità accademica e al pubblico, per rispondere ai tagli ai finanziamenti e alla riforma del preruolo in università. Avremo come ospiti Stefano Ballerio, che si è fatto promotore di questa lettera presso il Dipartimento di studi letterari, filologici e linguistici, e Carlotta Cossutta, rappresentante in Senato accademico dei settori antico, filosofico, storico, pedagogico e psicologico. Parleremo di come sono fatte le lettere, quali richieste avanzano, e ne valuteremo l’efficacia.
Vi aspettiamo numerosi!

Università. Dialoghi sul futuro è un nuovo spazio che nasce dalla nostra preoccupazione per lo stato attuale e le prospettive future dell’università in Italia e all’estero, ma anche dalla frustrazione che proviamo nel non sapere come reagire a questa situazione. Questo sarà un momento di incontro in cui innanzitutto informarsi, e capire meglio i contorni e l’entità dei problemi che ci preoccupano, ma poi soprattutto capire insieme qual è il margine di azione, quali sono le risposte concrete che possiamo provare a mettere in atto come individui e come categoria. Un incontro informale e aperto a tutti, a qualsiasi grado del percorso accademico, e che lascia spazio al dialogo e al dibattito, ma sempre a partire da un problema concreto - e con l’intenzione di dare un risvolto concreto alle nostre parole.