Giacomo Rossi obtained his bachelor’s degree in Classics at the University of Milan (2020). Conducted under the guidance of Prof. G. Zanetto, his thesis entitled 'From the Odysseys to the Odyssey: The Many Returns of Odysseus' dealt with the traces of alternative epic narratives of Odysseus’ homecoming that remained in the Homeric Odyssey. Then he received a master’s degree in Classics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan (2023) with the thesis 'The value of speech in Sophocles’ tragedies', conducted under the supervision of Prof. A. Porro. He focused his research interest on Sophoclean concepts of speech, discourse, language, investigating their gnoseological and meta-poetic implications on several levels, especially lexical and semantic. Currently he is a PhD candidate in Greek Literature and Classical Philology at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan (supervisor: Prof. A Porro).

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• Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan;

• University of Milan;

• Universität zu Köln;

• Scuola Vaticana di Paleografia, Diplomatica e Archivistica

He was carrying out a research project about Eratosthenes of Kyrene, Alexandrian polygraph and scholar, and his poetic and philological works, under the supervision of Prof. A. Porro. Since critical editions of this author’s works date back at least to a century ago, his research aim was to produce a modern, updated and complete critic edition of poetic fragments, providing them with an extensive commentary, thus filling a gap in the Hellenistic studies concerning Eratosthenes and investigating the features of the relationship between his philological method and poetics. After focusing on the collection, edition and commentary of the fragments of 'Hermes', an erudite poem concerning the god Hermes, that are transmitted by ancient sources, especially scholiographical and lexicographical, he is currently investigating the literary representations of the god Hermes in the poetic and cultural production of the Alexandrian and Hellenistic periods.

• Classical Philology and Ancient Greek Literature, from archaic to Hellenistic age, from imperial to byzantine period;

• Papyrology;

• ancient exegetical literature (scholiography, grammar, lexicography);

• indirect tradition;

• Greek and Latin intertextuality;

• history of Hellenistic and Classical Philology;

• Greek grammar and linguistics from an Indo-European comparative perspective;

• ancient scientific literature;

• mythography.