Maria Laura Gemelli Marciano

Maria Laura Gemelli Marciano (born September 10, 1952 ) is an Italian-Swiss classical philologist .

Life

After graduating from the Liceo Classico C. Colombo in Genoa in 1971, she studied classical philology, Indo-European studies , ancient philosophy and Italian literature at the University of Genoa from 1971 to 1975 . From 1980 to 1987 she taught Latin and Italian as a high school teacher in Ticino . She received her doctorate from the University of Zurich in 1988 . From 1990 to 1991 she was an assistant at the Classical Philological Seminar at the University of Zurich. She was Walter Burkert's research assistant from 1993 to 1996. Since her habilitation in 1996 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich in the field of Classical Philology, she has been a private lecturer there . In the winter semester 1999/2000 and summer semester 2001 she represented the Chair of Greek Studies at the University of Bern . Since 2006 she has been adjunct professor for classical philology at the University of Zurich. In 2011, she gave guest lectures on ancient religious studies at the University of Basel .

Her work and research focus are early Greek philosophy ( pre-Socratics ), doxography , ancient medicine and ancient mysticism.

Fonts (selection)

• Le metamorfosi della tradizione. Mutamenti di significato e neologismi nel PERI PHYSEOS di Empedocle (= Rane. Collana di Studi e Testi. Volume 5). Levante, Bari 1990, OCLC 911994339 (also dissertation, Zurich 1988).
• as editor with Walter Burkert, Lucia Orelli and Elisabetta Matelli : Fragments collections of philosophical texts of antiquity. Le raccolte dei frammenti di filosofi antichi. Atti del Seminario Internazionale Ascona, Centro Stefano Franscini 22-27 September 1996 (= Aporemata. Volume 3). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-25902-6 .
• as editor: Walter Burkert: Kleine Schriften. II Orientalia (= Hypomnemata. Investigations into antiquity and its afterlife . Volume 2). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-525-25271-4 .
• Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, Xenophanes, Heraklit. Greek-Latin-German. Selection of the fragments and testimonials, translation and explanations (= The pre-Socratics. Volume 1). Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7608-1735-4 .
• Democrito e l'Accademia. Studi sulla trasmissione dell'atomismo antico da Aristotele a Simplicio (= Studia Praesocratica. Volume 1). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-018542-3 (also habilitation thesis, Zurich 1995).
• Parmenides, Zenon Empedocles. Greek-Latin-German. Selection of the fragments and testimonials, translation and explanations (= The pre-Socratics. Volume 2). Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 3-538-03500-8 .
  • 3rd revised edition, ibid 2013, ISBN 3-05-006019-0 .
• with Livio Rossetti and Massimo Pulpito : Parmenide. Suoni, immagini, esperienza (= Eleatica. Volume 3). Academia Verlag, Sankt Augustin 2013.
• Anaxagoras, Melissos, Diogenes of Apollonia, the ancient atomists. Greek-Latin-German. Selection of fragments and testimonials, translation and explanations (= The pre-Socratics. Volume 3). Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-538-03502-7 .
  • 2nd revised edition, ibid 2013, ISBN 978-3-05-006021-7 .

Web links

• M. Laura Gemelli Marciano on the website of the University of Zurich