Viola Palmieri

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

Room 24

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

C1: Between Tradition and Triumph: Christian Poetics of Ekphrasis

short CV

2023–2024

gewähltes Vorstandsmitglied (Postdoc-Vertretung)

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 4^th, but especially the 5^th–7^th century AD. These texts are all preserved in a single codex (Cod. Pal. Gr. 23, mid–10^th 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. DOI: 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. (2024), Rezension: Tsomis, G. P., Das hellenistische Gedicht Megara. Ein Kommentar (Palingenesia 130) Stuttgart 2022, in: Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medievale 66, pp. 273-279.

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

Palmieri, V. (bevorstehende Veröffentlichung) Augia nello Herakles leontophonos: un esempio di "buon re" (tolemaico?) (Tagungsband der Konferenz "Theocritea").

Palmieri, V. (bevorstehende Veröffentlichung), Entry on Bucolic poetry (Pastoral) for the Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia (GROH).

Palmieri, V. (bevorstehende Veröffentlichung), "Making sounds audible and...visible. Political implications of ἐνάργεια in Paul the Silentiary's Ekphrasis of Hagia Sophia", in: Carolla, P./Magnolo, A., Da Nonno a Costantino VII. Ricerche di letteratura tardoantica e bizantina, Genova.

Palmieri, V., Bottenberg, Laura (bevorstehende Veröffentlichung) "Rhetoric and love: exploring the limits of persuasion in Hellenistic erotic poetry", in: Papaioannou, S./Serafim, A. (Hgg.), Companion to Ancient Rhetoric, Leiden/Boston.

Palmieri, V., Männlein, I. (bevorstehende Veröffentlichung), "A guided tour through a poetic collection of statues. Some observations on Christodorus of Koptos' Ekphrastic Practice, in: Männlein, I./Chaldekas, M. (Hgg.), The Poetics of Greek Ekphrasis, Berlin/Boston.

talks

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 Theokrit-Treffen” (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.), 21-22.04.2023.

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.

Antwort und Diskussionsleitung zum Vortrag von Papapicco, A. (SNS Pisa): Verso una nuova edizione dei Giambi callimachei, Ciclo seminariale Callimachus in Progress, Messina, 12.12.2024.

Jenseits von enargeia: Farbe und Licht in Paulos Silentiarios' Beschreibung der Hagia Sophia, Tagung: Metageitnia, Genève, 17-18.01.2025.

Ein Tempel aus Worten. Klang in Paulos Silentiarios' Ekphrasis der Hagia Sophia, Tagung: Dux femina facto (Verg. Aen. 1.365), Frauen*(Netzwerk) in der klassischen Philologie, Marburg, 19.-21.03.2025.

Merging epic paths. Narrating Heracles' heroic identity in [Theocritus'] Id. 25, Hellenet scholar talks, 14.07.2025.

(mit Arianna Canu) Through the eyes of the guide: theory in the practice of ekphrasis from Imperial Age to Late Antiquity, Tagung: Rimancing Rhetoric: Imperial fiction and Late Antique rhetorical theories and practices, Gent, 25.-26.09.2025.

classes

SoSe 2025

PS: Proseminar zu Longos, Daphnis und Chloe

SoSe 2023

PS: Proseminar zu Sophokles Philoktetes

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