Andrea Capra
Biographic Data
| ID | 1046566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Capra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Capra |
| SIGNATURE | CAPRA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4799-7920 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hipponax the Poet: Poetic Mischief in Archaic Greece
'Hipponax the poet' is an elusive figure. Stories about him abounded already in antiquity, at least in part extrapolated from the stories about himself that abounded in his poems. But what distinguishes him from other Greek lyric poets is the manner in which his corpus suggests a strategy of mischievousness around self-presentation: a deliberate confounding of expectations, the projecting of a pointedly strange and untrustworthy authorial persona…
Una realtà zibaldonica: Attualità e inattualità della Proposta di premi fatta dall’Accademia dei Sillografi
Lo scetticismo di Leopardi nei confronti delle tendenze del proprio tempo è ben noto. Ma quali sono, nello specifico, le tendenze dell’Ottocento che egli critica? Soffermandosi sull’operetta Proposta di premi fatta dall’Accademia dei Sillografi e su alcuni passaggi dello Zibaldone, questo saggio sostiene che tali tendenze sono in parte riconducibili alla fede ottocentesca di poter espandere il meccanicismo di stampo deterministico derivato dalle …
Descartes at War: Curzio Malaparte and Primo Levi
In moments of crisis, René Descartes suggests maintaining a cool attitude of steadfast resolution to regain a vantage point of rationality over a given situation. Curzio Malaparte and Primo Levi's works, particularly through their self-proclaimed Cartesian protagonists, interrogate the feasibility of this stance during World War II. This unexplored Cartesian intertext shows how, despite these authors' differences, Malaparte and Levi both wrestled…
Intervisuality: New Approaches to Greek Literature
Intertextuality is a well-known tool in literary criticism and has been widely applied to ancient literature, with, perhaps surprisingly, classical scholarship being at the frontline in developing new theoretical approaches. By contrast, the seemingly parallel notion of intervisuality has only recently begun to appear in classical studies. In fact, intervisuality still lacks a clear definition and scope. Unlike intertextuality, which is consisten…
Staying With the Darkness: Peter Sloterdijk’s Anthropotechnics for the Digital Age
This essay discusses Sloterdijk’s anthropotechnical framework as it relates to recent contributions that deal with the inherent opacities of digital technology and processes of blackboxing. I argue that Sloterdijk’s philosophy is a precious case of affirmative, non-nihilistic technophilic thinking that espouses the technogenic provenance of mankind, and leaves space for technologically engendered incomprehensibility while tracing a horizon for hu…
Lyric Oblivion: When Sappho Taught Socrates How to Forget
Hermes Iambicus
The present chapter explores the iambic role of Hermes both within and outside iambic poetry, with a focus on the Homeric Hymn to Hermes , which can be construed as the mythical pre-history of the iambic genre, and on the fragments of Hipponax, whose predilection for Hermes calls for an explanation. In both cases, Iambic Hermes emerges as a metamorphic trickster, promoting poetic and linguistic innovation with an unprecedented emphasis on the sig…
Aristophanes’ Iconic Socrates
Xenophon’s ‘Round Trip’: Geography as Narrative Consistency in the Ephesiaka
A careful examination of Xenophon's geography reveals a circular pattern and a neat if rudimentary technique of entrelacement. Such an arrangement (i. e. the characters' 'round trip') squares well with Xenophon's orali(istic) style and accounts for its open-ended structure: far from being a shortcoming, this feature is best interpreted in the light of ancient poetics, and helps us to understand a number of alleged problems in this novel, such as …
Detour en Route in the Aegean Sea? Xenophon of Ephesus 5.10.2
Lyric Poetry
This article emphasizes the importance of context, and of what is lost, when people approach the study of lyric poetry: even the one complete poem by Sappho turns out to be a fragment, because people can no longer hear the tune to which it was sung, because they do not know for whom she was singing. It suggests that people need to rethink quite radically ancient processes of identification between poets, performers, and audiences; while, at the s…
Plato's Hesiod and the will of Zeus: Philosophical rhapsody in the Timaeus and the Critias
This chapter takes the Timaeus-Critias as the basis for an exploration of the way in which Plato constructs his own, philosophical ‘epic’ by developing and improving Hesiodic rhapsody. It argues that two principles in particular guide Plato's creative reception of Hesiod: the ‘moralizing’ rule (exemplified in the justice of the operation of the ‘will of Zeus’ in Plato), and the ‘broadening’ rule (exemplified in the more comprehensive nature of th…
Protagoras’ Achilles: Homeric Allusion as a Satirical Weapon (Pl. Prt . 340a)
Protagoras’ Achilles: Homeric Allusion as a Satirical Weapon (Pl. Prt . 340a)
Lyric Poetry
This article emphasizes the importance of context, and of what is lost, when people approach the study of lyric poetry: even the one complete poem by Sappho turns out to be a fragment, because people can no longer hear the tune to which it was sung, because they do not know for whom she was singing. It suggests that people need to rethink quite radically ancient processes of identification between poets, performers, and audiences; while, at the s…
Plato's Hesiod and the will of Zeus: Philosophical rhapsody in the Timaeus and the Critias
This chapter takes the Timaeus-Critias as the basis for an exploration of the way in which Plato constructs his own, philosophical ‘epic’ by developing and improving Hesiodic rhapsody. It argues that two principles in particular guide Plato's creative reception of Hesiod: the ‘moralizing’ rule (exemplified in the justice of the operation of the ‘will of Zeus’ in Plato), and the ‘broadening’ rule (exemplified in the more comprehensive nature of th…
Detour en Route in the Aegean Sea? Xenophon of Ephesus 5.10.2
Aristophanes’ Iconic Socrates
Xenophon’s ‘Round Trip’: Geography as Narrative Consistency in the Ephesiaka
A careful examination of Xenophon's geography reveals a circular pattern and a neat if rudimentary technique of entrelacement. Such an arrangement (i. e. the characters' 'round trip') squares well with Xenophon's orali(istic) style and accounts for its open-ended structure: far from being a shortcoming, this feature is best interpreted in the light of ancient poetics, and helps us to understand a number of alleged problems in this novel, such as …
Lyric Oblivion: When Sappho Taught Socrates How to Forget
Hermes Iambicus
The present chapter explores the iambic role of Hermes both within and outside iambic poetry, with a focus on the Homeric Hymn to Hermes , which can be construed as the mythical pre-history of the iambic genre, and on the fragments of Hipponax, whose predilection for Hermes calls for an explanation. In both cases, Iambic Hermes emerges as a metamorphic trickster, promoting poetic and linguistic innovation with an unprecedented emphasis on the sig…
Staying With the Darkness: Peter Sloterdijk’s Anthropotechnics for the Digital Age
This essay discusses Sloterdijk’s anthropotechnical framework as it relates to recent contributions that deal with the inherent opacities of digital technology and processes of blackboxing. I argue that Sloterdijk’s philosophy is a precious case of affirmative, non-nihilistic technophilic thinking that espouses the technogenic provenance of mankind, and leaves space for technologically engendered incomprehensibility while tracing a horizon for hu…
Intervisuality: New Approaches to Greek Literature
Intertextuality is a well-known tool in literary criticism and has been widely applied to ancient literature, with, perhaps surprisingly, classical scholarship being at the frontline in developing new theoretical approaches. By contrast, the seemingly parallel notion of intervisuality has only recently begun to appear in classical studies. In fact, intervisuality still lacks a clear definition and scope. Unlike intertextuality, which is consisten…
Descartes at War: Curzio Malaparte and Primo Levi
In moments of crisis, René Descartes suggests maintaining a cool attitude of steadfast resolution to regain a vantage point of rationality over a given situation. Curzio Malaparte and Primo Levi's works, particularly through their self-proclaimed Cartesian protagonists, interrogate the feasibility of this stance during World War II. This unexplored Cartesian intertext shows how, despite these authors' differences, Malaparte and Levi both wrestled…
Una realtà zibaldonica: Attualità e inattualità della Proposta di premi fatta dall’Accademia dei Sillografi
Lo scetticismo di Leopardi nei confronti delle tendenze del proprio tempo è ben noto. Ma quali sono, nello specifico, le tendenze dell’Ottocento che egli critica? Soffermandosi sull’operetta Proposta di premi fatta dall’Accademia dei Sillografi e su alcuni passaggi dello Zibaldone, questo saggio sostiene che tali tendenze sono in parte riconducibili alla fede ottocentesca di poter espandere il meccanicismo di stampo deterministico derivato dalle …
Hipponax the Poet: Poetic Mischief in Archaic Greece
'Hipponax the poet' is an elusive figure. Stories about him abounded already in antiquity, at least in part extrapolated from the stories about himself that abounded in his poems. But what distinguishes him from other Greek lyric poets is the manner in which his corpus suggests a strategy of mischievousness around self-presentation: a deliberate confounding of expectations, the projecting of a pointedly strange and untrustworthy authorial persona…
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