Enrico Emanuele Prodi

I am an Assistant Professor (RTDb) in Greek Language and Literature at the University of Cagliari. I teach Greek language at undergraduate level and Greek literature at both undergraduate and graduate level. My research interests are papyrology in the context of ancient book culture, both on the literary and on the material level; archaic Greek lyric, especially the fragmentary works of Pindar; scholarship on Greek poetry in the Hellenistic and Imperial period; and Greek tragedy, with a particular focus on fragments of Aeschylus and Euripides. I have recently begun to explore my Byzantine interests, starting from the figure of John Tzetzes.

I hold a BA in Classics from Bologna (2007) and an MPhil (2009) and DPhil (2014) in Classical Languages and Literature from Oxford. My doctoral dissertation was a critical edition, with ample introduction and commentary, of the fragments of Pindar's Prosodia. It is now in the laborious and much-procrastinated process of being published with Oxford University Press.

After my doctorate I was a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church (2012-2016), then a Marie Curie European Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2016-2018) with a project on ancient scholarship on archaic Greek iambos. I returned to Oxford as a Stipendiary Lecturer at Balliol College (2018-2019) and then a Departmental Lecturer at the Classics Faculty and Magdalen College (2019-2022). In this last post I taught all the papers on Greek literature in College, lectured on Greek lyric, and supervised graduate students in Papyrology. After that, I worked as a Research Fellow in Papyrology at UCL within an AHRC-funded project focussing on the diffusion and circulation of non-canonical Greek hexameter poetry in Roman Egypt from the first to the sixth century AD; in that capacity I have edited a number of papyrus fragments from Oxyrhynchus which are now forthcoming.

I have organised or co-organised three international conferences (Sympotic Poetry, Oxford 2011; Framing Hipponax, Oxford 2016; Tzetzes, Venice 2018) and a panel at the annual conference of the Classical Association (Leicester 2018). I have edited or co-edited two conference volumes (The Cup of Song, Oxford 2016; Τζετζικαὶ ἔρευναι, Bologna 2022), a Festschrift (Φαίδιμος Ἕκτωρ, Venice 2021), and a thematic issue of a journal (Didymus and Graeco-Roman Learning, BICS 2020).

** Several of my papers are not here because the publisher forbids free online dissemination, but I will always share my published research with anyone interested: just message me and I will send you a PDF privately. **
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