Dr. Giovanni Andrisani

Raum: 017
Tel.: 0345 / 5524012
Mail: giovanni.andrisani@altertum.uni-halle.de
Sprechstunde: n.V.

Education

  • 01-01-2023-present: Research fellow of the Humboldt-Foundation for a two-year term. Research project: Gorippus, Iohannis, Book VI. New edition with Introduction and Commentary, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. R. M. Jakobi. 

  • 11/2017-22/10/2021: Phd Student, Classical Studies, Università degli Studi di Genova, Genoa (Italy). Thesis: “Il campione. Achille nella letteratura latina di età imperiale” (“The Champion. Achilles in the Latin Literature of the Imperial Age”) Advisor: Prof. Lara Nicolini. Grade: cum laude. 
  • 10/2015-09/2017: Undergraduate Student, Classical Studies, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy). 
  • 09/2015-18/07/2017: Master of Arts, Classical Studies, Università di Pisa, Pisa (Italy). Thesis: “I figli della Terra: traduzione e commento della Gigantomachia di Claudiano, con un’appendice sul mito dei Giganti nella Tarda Antichità” (“Sons of the Earth: a translation and commentary to Claudian’s Gigantomachia, with an Appendix on the myth of Giants in the Late Antiquity”), Advisors: Prof. Chiara Ombretta Tommasi, Prof. Gianpiero Rosati, Prof. Maria Domitilla Campanile. Grade: 110/110 cum laude. 
  • 09/2012-10/07/2015: Bachelor of Arts, Classical Studies, Università degli studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Naples (Italy). Thesis: “Il commento di Porfirione al IV libro dei Carmina di Orazio” (“Porphyrion’s Commentary to the fourth book of Horace’s Odes”), Advisor: Prof. Marisa Squillante. Grade: 110/110 cum laude. 

Didactics 

  • 11/2020-02/2021: Teaching assistant for the course in Latin literature, University of Genoa (supervisor: Prof. Lara Nicolini), 8 hours. Preparatory side course on Latin language (pronunciation, prosody, phonetics, morphology) and lecture of Verg. Aen. viii 675-731. 
  • 21/01/2019 – 04/05/2019: External teaching expert for high school students, Liceo classico “G. Galilei”, Pisa, 4 hours. Lessons on Late ancient Latin poetry (Proba, Commodianus, Juvencus, Prudentius) Supervisor: Prof. Michela Benedetti. 
  • 12/2018-06/2019: Supporting tutor of Latin language for the Art and cultural heritage students, University of Genoa, 80 hours. Supervisors: Prof. Gianluca Ameri, Prof. Simona Morando, Prof. Biagio Santorelli. 
  • 11/2018-03/2019: Teaching assistant for the course in Latin literature, University of Genoa, (supervisor: Prof. Lara Nicolini), 12 hours. Preparatory side course on Latin language (pronunciation, prosody, phonetics, morphology, verbal system, syntax). 
  • 30/01/2017 – 09/05/2017: External teaching expert for high school students, Liceo classico “G. Galilei”, Pisa, 4 hours. Lessons on Latin epic poetry (Statius, Juvencus, Arator) Supervisor: Prof. Michela Benedetti. 

Other

  • 29/04/2022: First prize in the Certamen of Latin poetry “Scevola Mariotti” – 10th edition, Rome.
  • 06/2020-04/2021; 01/2022-now: Founding member and content creator for the website “Sirius”, an integrated Latin teaching platform for Italian high school students (https://siriusgame.it/il-team).
  • 19/04/2018: First prize in the Certamen of Latin poetry “Scevola Mariotti” – 7th edition, Rome.
  • 10/2014: “Gli studi classici e la società dell’informazione”, a project of integrated didactics promoted by Prof. Marisa Squillante and selected by MIUR (Italian Ministry of information, university and research). Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Napoli (Italy). Acquisition of computer skills in the field of Classical Philology and collaboration to the realization of the website “Hyperdonat” consisting of the digitalization of Aelius Donatus’s corpus. Supervisor: Prof. Christian Nicolas, Université Lyon 3 “Jean Moulin”, Lyon (France).

Publications 

  • Prosodia e metrica dell’Aegritudo Perdicae, in L. Nicolini (ed.), Aegritudo Perdicae, edition with translation and commentary, Marsilio, Venice (forthcoming). 
  • Claudiano. La guerra dei Giganti, edition with translation and commentary, La vita felice, Milan (forthcoming). 
  • Amore disperato: il paradosso dell’identità nel mito ovidiano di Ifi, in «Creta antica» (forthcoming). 
  • Il consiglio di Tiresia. Nota a Hor. serm. 2,5, in «RFIC» 148/1 (2020), 145-50. 
  • Un capitolo della fortuna moderna di Claudiano: la canzone “Per le stelle medicee temerariamente oppugnate”, in «ASNP» 12 (2020), 203-12. 
  • Certamen Lucani et Neronis: eroi e antieroi in Stat. silu. II 7, in «Maia» 72 (3/2020), 628-36. 

Papers

  • 15/03/2021: Moloch. Achille e il mito del vir necans (Moloch. Achilles as vir necans), within the Study Day “Human sacrifices in the classical world”, Università degli studi di Genova, Organizers: Prof. Nicola Cucuzza, Prof. Francesca Gazzano. 
  • 9/04/2019: Specchi infranti: paradossi e verità provvisorie nel mito ovidiano di Ifi (Broken mirrors: paradoxes and provisional truths in Ovidian Iphis), within the Study Day “From Leukippos to Iphis: a myth of metamorphosis in Festos”, Università degli studi di Genova, Organizers: Prof. Nicola Cucuzza, Prof. Francesca Gazzano.