Giovan Battista D’Alessio
Biographic Data
| ID | 5628088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giovan Battista D’Alessio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giovan Battista |
| FAMILY NAME | D’Alessio |
| SIGNATURE | D’ALESSIO G B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Scuola Superiore Meridionale |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics
This volume gathers 25 chapters focused on Latin texts on papyrus, exploring them from multi- and cross-disciplinary perspectives. It serves as a companion to the texts published in The Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (Cambridge, forthcoming). The chapters provide in-depth analyses of the chosen texts from literary, philological, linguistic, and historical perspectives, or offer methodological reflections on Latin texts on papyrus, promoting inn…
Dionysus and Adonis: A Contribution to the Study of the Orphic Rhapsodies
A hexameter text of ‘Dionysiac’ subject, recently discovered in a late-antique palimpsest in the Monastery of St Catherine on Mt Sinai, and arguably the first fragment of direct transmission of the famous Orphic Rhapsodies , offers a very remarkable story. Aphrodite raises a divine child on Mt Nysa; the child disappears during an absence of the goddess, who looks for him through the whole universe. She eventually finds him in the Underworld, wher…
Powerful Presences: Horace’s Carmen Saeculare and Hellenistic Choral Traditions
In this paper D’Alessio explores the reception of the ideology of choral performance in Horace’s Carmen Saeculare arguing that, contrary to current scholarly consensus, it is profoundly indebted to Hellenistic choral theory and practice, and, more particularly, to its crucial, but often overlooked configuration in Callimachus. D’Alessio’s interpretation starts from an analysis of the relationship between divine ‘presence’, political power, and th…
Song Regained: Working with Greek Poetic Fragments
Apart from relatively few exceptions of texts which survive intact, what we have of Ancient Greek literature remains, to a great degree, fragmentary. As a result it is often misread, overlooked or mined not for its own sake but to support the investigation of texts which survive in their entirety. This collection of chapters addresses a range of poetic fragments, with a strong (though not exclusive) focus on Archaic epic and lyric, and an emphasi…
Bacchylides’ Banquet Songs
This chapter examines both the indirect evidence for Bacchylides’ Banquet Songs and two papyri (P.Oxy. 1361 and 2361) usually interpreted as representing his Enkomia, discussing a recent alternative reconstruction which attributes them (wholly or partly) to his Dithyrambs. Through a close reading of the fragments and a new interpretation of the ‘Marpessa poem’ the author argues that these, and P.Oxy. 2362, represent copies of a collection of his …
The lostIsthmianodes of Pindar
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Reading the Victory Ode
The victory ode was a short-lived poetic genre in the fifth century BC, but its impact has been substantial. Pindar, Bacchylides and others are now among the most widely read Greek authors precisely because of their significance for the literary development of poetry between Homer and tragedy and their historical involvement in promoting Greek rulers. Their influence was so great that it ultimately helped to define the European notion of lyric fr…
Language and pragmatics
The label 'lyric' applies in modern times to a heterogeneous group of Greek texts, which includes the songs originally performed by an ensemble of singers and dancers, those sung by soloists and the recitative poems, which were accompanied by the music of the aulos at banquets and on other occasions. These various categories of poems do share, however, important formal features. Greek 'lyric' and 'epic' poetry were both meant for oral performance…
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric
Greek lyric poetry encompassed a wide range of types of poem, from elegy to iambos and dithyramb to epinician. It particularly flourished in the Archaic and Classical periods, and some of its practitioners, such as Sappho and Pindar, had significant cultural influence in subsequent centuries down to the present day. This Companion provides an accessible introduction to this fascinating and diverse body of poetry and its later reception. It takes …
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Language and pragmatics
The label 'lyric' applies in modern times to a heterogeneous group of Greek texts, which includes the songs originally performed by an ensemble of singers and dancers, those sung by soloists and the recitative poems, which were accompanied by the music of the aulos at banquets and on other occasions. These various categories of poems do share, however, important formal features. Greek 'lyric' and 'epic' poetry were both meant for oral performance…
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric
Greek lyric poetry encompassed a wide range of types of poem, from elegy to iambos and dithyramb to epinician. It particularly flourished in the Archaic and Classical periods, and some of its practitioners, such as Sappho and Pindar, had significant cultural influence in subsequent centuries down to the present day. This Companion provides an accessible introduction to this fascinating and diverse body of poetry and its later reception. It takes …
The lostIsthmianodes of Pindar
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Reading the Victory Ode
The victory ode was a short-lived poetic genre in the fifth century BC, but its impact has been substantial. Pindar, Bacchylides and others are now among the most widely read Greek authors precisely because of their significance for the literary development of poetry between Homer and tragedy and their historical involvement in promoting Greek rulers. Their influence was so great that it ultimately helped to define the European notion of lyric fr…
Bacchylides’ Banquet Songs
This chapter examines both the indirect evidence for Bacchylides’ Banquet Songs and two papyri (P.Oxy. 1361 and 2361) usually interpreted as representing his Enkomia, discussing a recent alternative reconstruction which attributes them (wholly or partly) to his Dithyrambs. Through a close reading of the fragments and a new interpretation of the ‘Marpessa poem’ the author argues that these, and P.Oxy. 2362, represent copies of a collection of his …
Powerful Presences: Horace’s Carmen Saeculare and Hellenistic Choral Traditions
In this paper D’Alessio explores the reception of the ideology of choral performance in Horace’s Carmen Saeculare arguing that, contrary to current scholarly consensus, it is profoundly indebted to Hellenistic choral theory and practice, and, more particularly, to its crucial, but often overlooked configuration in Callimachus. D’Alessio’s interpretation starts from an analysis of the relationship between divine ‘presence’, political power, and th…
Song Regained: Working with Greek Poetic Fragments
Apart from relatively few exceptions of texts which survive intact, what we have of Ancient Greek literature remains, to a great degree, fragmentary. As a result it is often misread, overlooked or mined not for its own sake but to support the investigation of texts which survive in their entirety. This collection of chapters addresses a range of poetic fragments, with a strong (though not exclusive) focus on Archaic epic and lyric, and an emphasi…
Dionysus and Adonis: A Contribution to the Study of the Orphic Rhapsodies
A hexameter text of ‘Dionysiac’ subject, recently discovered in a late-antique palimpsest in the Monastery of St Catherine on Mt Sinai, and arguably the first fragment of direct transmission of the famous Orphic Rhapsodies , offers a very remarkable story. Aphrodite raises a divine child on Mt Nysa; the child disappears during an absence of the goddess, who looks for him through the whole universe. She eventually finds him in the Underworld, wher…
Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics
This volume gathers 25 chapters focused on Latin texts on papyrus, exploring them from multi- and cross-disciplinary perspectives. It serves as a companion to the texts published in The Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (Cambridge, forthcoming). The chapters provide in-depth analyses of the chosen texts from literary, philological, linguistic, and historical perspectives, or offer methodological reflections on Latin texts on papyrus, promoting inn…
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