Luigi Lehnus

Luigi Angelo Lehnus (* 1946 ) is an Italian Graecist .

Life

Luigi Lehnus received his PhD from the University of Milan in 1971 . After various positions as a research assistant and assistant, he was professor associato for Greek and Latin philology there from 1983 to 1986. From 1986 to 1989 he was full professor of Greek and Latin grammar at the Università di Genova and from 1989 until his retirement in 2015 he was full professor at the University of Milan.

His research areas are Greek poetry, Hellenistic poetry, the learned poetry of the Latin language, the reconstruction of fragmentary Greek authors of the archaic and Hellenistic as well as the history of classical philology , especially in England ( Arthur S. Hunt , Hugh Lloyd-Jones ) and Germany ( Paul Maas , Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff ). He has translated and commented on the Olympic Odes by Pindar and De facie in orbe Lunae by Plutarch . In particular, he dealt with Callimachus , with the indirect tradition as well as with the papyri.

In 2010 he was awarded the Premio Antonio Feltrinelli for Philology and Linguistics from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei .

Fonts (selection)

• Maasiana & Callimachea. Ledizioni, 2017 (collection of 44 articles by Lehnus).
• Wilamowitziana , in: Quaderni di storia 79, 2014, 59–110.
• Postille inedite di Paul Maas a Pindaro, Epinici e frammenti , in: Sileno 39, 2013, 239-252.
• Breve storia della Graeca wilamowitziana , in: F. Gallo (ed.), Miscellanea Graecolatina I. Milano-Roma 2013, 21–31.
• Poeti e atleti: agonismo e poesia nella cultura greca arcaica , in: F. Beltraminelli (ed.), Lezioni bellinzonesi 5 […] . Bellinzona 2012, 9–31.
• Incontri con la filologia del passato. Bari 2012.
• Postille inedite di Paul Maas ai primi due libri degli Aitia di Callimaco , in: Quaderni di storia 75, 2012, 299-318.
• Ricordo di Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones , in: Sileno 37, 2011, 231–58.
• Contributi inediti di Paul Maas al testo dell'Epitafio per i caduti ateniesi del 480–479 (26 I Meiggs-Lewis2 = 'Sim.' FGE 764-767 = CEG I 2ii = IG3 I 2, 503/504 AI) , in: Quaderni di storia 74, 2011, 129-36.
• with Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Susan Stephens (eds.): Brill's Companion to Callimachus. Leiden, Boston 2011.
  • Callimachus Rediscovered in Papyri , in: B. Acosta-Hughes, L. Lehnus and S. Stephens (Eds.), Brill's Companion to Callimachus. Leiden-Boston 2011, 23-38.
• Bernard Pyne Grenfell (1869–1926) e Arthur Surridge Hunt (1871–1934). In: Mario Capasso (Ed.): Hermae. Scholars and Scholarship in Papyrology. Pisa 2007, pp. 115-141.
• Nuova bibliografia callimachea (1489-1998) . Ed. dell'Orso, Alessandria 2000, ISBN 88-7694-416-8
• Plutarco, Il volto della luna. Introduzione Di Dario Del Corno. Traduzione e Note di Luigi Lehnus. Adelphi Edizioni 1991.

Web links

• Curriculum vitae with list of publications 2011 to 2014
• Literature by and about Luigi Lehnus in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )