Alessandro Barchiesi

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Alessandro Barchiesi (* 1955 in Padua ) is an Italian classical philologist .

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From 1973 to 1986 first student with Gian Biagio Conte , then worked for him as a research assistant at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa , Barchiesi became Associate Professor at the University of Milan in 1987 and in 1990 he was appointed Full Professor at the University of Verona , where he also headed the Institute for Classical Philology. Since 2000 Barchiesi has been Full Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Siena , Arezzo Faculty of Philosophy , and Gesue and Helen Spogli Professor of Italian Studies at Stanford University .

In addition, Barchiesi held short-term positions as visiting professor or lecturer at the Universities of Princeton , Harvard , Austin , Stanford , Oxford , Cambridge , Rome , Buenos Aires , Pretoria , Durban and Victoria (Canada) as well as with individual lectures and seminars at several universities in Great Britain , USA, Canada, Italy, Spain, France, Greece and Germany. In 2010/2011 he was Sather Professor at the University of California, Berkeley , and in November 2012 Martin Lecturer at Oberlin College . In 2012 he was elected a full member of the Academia Europaea .

He is also co-founder of the journal Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici , editor of a new, international commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses for the "Fondazione Lorenzo Valla" and co-editor of the journal "Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica".

Services

Alessandro Barchiesi has earned a reputation as one of the world's leading interpreters of Latin literature. His focus is on Augustan poetry, especially Ovid , which can be seen in his book "Il poeta e il Principe" (1994 in Italian, 1997 as "The Poet and the Prince" in English) and in the collection of essays "Speaking Volumes" (2001), but his competence extends far beyond that to Greek poetry and its reception in Roman literature, literary theory and the relationship between literature and the fine arts in antiquity.

Works (selection)

Monographs

  • Il poeta e il principe. Roma-Bari, 1994
    • English translation: The poet and the prince. Berkeley-Los Angeles, 1997 ( online ).
  • Speaking volumes. Papers on Ovid and Roman intertextuality. London, 2001.

Editorships

  • (Eds., With Philip Hardie and Stephen Hinds ): Ovidian Transformations. Cambridge PCPS Suppl. 1999.
  • (Ed., With Antonio Aloni and Alberto Cavarzere): Iambic Ideas. Lanham MD, 2001 ( online ).
  • (Ed.): Rituals in inc. A Conference on Religion and Literary Production in Ancient Rome, held at Stanford University in February 2002. Steiner, Stuttgart, 2004 (Potsdamer Classical Studies, Vol. 10), ISBN 3-515-08526-2 ( online ).
  • (Ed., With Walter Scheidel ): The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-921152-4 ( online ).

Contributions to edited volumes

  • D. Roberts, F. Dunn, D. Fowler (Eds.): Classical closure. Princeton 1997.
  • Charles Martindale (Ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Virgil. 1997.
  • Stephen J. Harrison (Ed.): Oxford Readings in the Roman Novel. 1999.
  • Philip Hardie (Ed.): Virgil. Critical assessments. Routledge, London, 1999.
  • Dirk Obbink , Mary Depew (Ed.): Genre in Classical Literature. CUP, Cambridge.
  • Dirk Obbink, Mary Depew (eds.): Matrices of genre. Harvard UP, 2000.
  • Stephen J. Harrison (Ed.): Texts, Ideas and the Classics. OUP, Oxford, 2001.
  • D. Boedeker, D. Sider (Eds.): Praise and desire. Contexts for the New Simonides. OUP, Oxford, 2001.
  • Denis Feeney , Tony Woodman (Eds.): Horace. Form and content. Cambridge, 2001.
  • Philip Hardie (Ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Ovid. 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members: Alessandro Barchiesi. Academia Europaea, accessed October 2, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Barchiesi, Alessandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Padua