Uni-Tübingen

Viola Palmieri

researcher

contact

Universität Tübingen
SFB 1391 „Andere Ästhetik“
Keplerstr. 17
D-72074 Tübingen

Room 24

+49 (0)7071 29-75112
viola.palmieri@uni-tuebingen.de

short CV

2023

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im SFB 1391 "Andere Ästhetik" an der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

2023

Abschluss des Promotionsverfahren an der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (mit Cotutelle Verfahren an der Università degli Studi di Pisa)

2017

Abschluss des Masterstudiums an der Università degli studi di Firenze (Klassische Altertumswissenschaft)

2016

Erasmus for studies an der Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands)

2014

Abschluss des Bachelorstudiums an der Università degli studi di Firenze (Klassische Altertumswissenschaft)

research

research project

Artifacts and Christian (different?) Poetics of Ekphrasis in Late Antiquity

The first funding phase of project C1 was concerned with Hellenistic ekphrastic epigrams, which reflected contemporary philosophical discourse on aisthesis and phantasia, thus revealing a new, 'different' poetics of ekphrasis. Based on the outcomes of this research, the second funding phase will deal with the Christian poetics of ekphrasis as it emerges from the epigrams and, almost especially, the more extensive poems from Eastern Roman-Byzantine Late Antiquity of the 4th, but especially the 5th–7th century AD. These texts are all preserved in a single codex (Cod. Pal. Gr. 23, mid–10th century), which, alongside the Anthologia Palatina [AP] with its relevant ekphrastic epigrams (e.g. Palladas, Agathias) and the Ekphrasis of Christodoros (AP II, 416 verses), hands down the Ekphrasis of Hagia Sophia and the Ekphrasis of Ambon by Paulus Silentiarius (1029+304 verses) as well as the Ekphrasis tabulae mundi by John of Gaza (ca. 700 verses). 
Considering the Progymnasmata of the imperial period, the question is to what extent these ekphrastic conceptions (as autological components) are reflected in the medium of late antique poetic ekphrases. The main object of the research is the investigation of the autological-heterological interplay based on the above-mentioned late antique poetic texts, the identification of known or new figures of reflection as well as their contextualisation in the literary-aesthetic milieu of late antiquity. The central question here is the extent to which familiar figures of reflection and poetic practices of ekphrasis change through the Christianised gaze (as a heterological component) and contribute to a Christian aesthetic in the context of late antique poetics of ekphrasis.

research focuses

  • Literatur der Spätantike
  • Ästhetik und Ekphrasis in der Antike
  • Hellenistische Dichtung
  • Archaische Lyrik (insbesondere Äolische Lyrik)

publications

Palmieri, V. (2019), Teocrito. I carmi eolici (Idd. 28-31). Introduzione, edizione critica, traduzione e commento a cura di Viola Palmieri (Alessandria).

Palmieri, V. (2022), Rezension von Beron (A.-E.), Weise (S.) (Hgg.), Hyblaea avena. Theokrit in römischer Keiserzeit und Früher Neuzeit. Beiträge vom internationalen Symposium am 15. und 16. November 2018 an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal. (Palingenesia 122.) Stuttgart 2020 in: Classical Review 2021, 71(2), pp. 339-341 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X21000548

Palmieri, V. (2022), Theocritus and the rural world in Kyriakou P. / Rengakos A./Sistakou, E.  (Hgg.) (2022), Brill’s Companion to Theocritus (Leiden/Boston), pp. 473-493.

Palmieri, V. (2022) Teocrito e [Teocrito]: problematiche di paternità e di genere letterario nello Herakles Leontophonos, in “SemRom” 11, pp. 237-256.

Palmieri, V. (bevorstehende Veröffentlichung), A Greek Survivor: Alcaeus of Messene’s ‘Demosthenic’ Voice, in "Hellenistica Groningana", Leiden.

Palmieri, V. (bevorstehende Veröffentlichung), Rezension (Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medioevale): Tsomis, G. P., Das hellenistische Gedicht Megara. Ein Kommentar (Palingenesia 130) Stuttgart 2022.

Palmieri, V. (bevorstehende Veröffentlichung) Prima di Filodemo: il "buon re" secondo Teocrito e Ps. Teocrito(Tagungsband der Konferenz "Theocritea").

Palmieri, V. (bevorstehende Veröffentlichung), Effective and ineffective speeches: rhetoric in Hellenistic poetry in Papaioannou, S./Serafim, A. (Hgg.), Companion to Ancient Rhetoric, Leiden/Boston.

talks

Ein “ekphrastischer” Spaziergang durch die Zeuxippos-Thermen: die Statuenbeschreibung des Christodorus von Koptos zwischen hellenistischem Erbe und kaiserzeitlicher Theoretisierung, Workshop: Ekphrasis in Kaiserzeit und Spätantike, Tübingen, 02.02.2024.

conferences and workshops

Response to Kathryn Gutzwiller “The reception of Callimachus in Meleager”: “Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic poetry”, (Rjiksuniversiteit Groningen), 13–14/09/2017.

Theocritus (?) Idyll 25: transmission and authorship, authorship through transmission: “Poems without poets: editing anonymus poetry” (Trinity College Dublin), 14–15/06/2018.

Theokrits] Idylle 25: Jahreskonferenz "Metageitnia” (Université de Lausanne), 18–19/01/2019

Teocrito e [Teocrito]: problematiche di paternità e di genere letterario nello Herakles Leontophonos: "Seminari Romani in onore di Luigi Enrico Rossi” (Università “La Sapienza”, Roma), 14/02/2019.

Response to André Lardinois “Sappho as Anchor for Male and Female Poets in the Hellenistic Period”: “Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic poetry”, (Rjiksuniversiteit Groningen), 22–23/08/2019

Theokrit Idyll 29. Eine Neueauslegung des ἔρως παιδικός: Jahreskonferenz "Metageitnia” (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), 17–18/01/2020.

A Greek Survivor: Alcaeus of Messene’s ‘Demosthenic’ Voice”: “Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic poetry” (Rjiksuniversiteit Groningen), 15-17/09/2021

"Struktur, Erzählung und Gattung im Herakles Leontophonos": Eingeladener Vortrag am "Colloquium Classicum" (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main), 20/01/2022.

Augeas in [Theocritus'] Id. 25: an example of a good ("Ptolemaic?) king: Eingeladener Vortrag am "Seminarium Mercuriale" (Uniwersytet Warszawski), 22/02/2023

Augia nell'Id. 25: un esempio di "buon re" (Tolemaico?)": "THEOCRITEA–Frankfurter

classes

SoSe 2023

PS: Proseminar zu Sophokles Philoktetes