My research in the last few years has focused mainly on 3 lines, two of which have started to converge, as expected:
1. Redefining some aspects of the literary system of Archaic and Classical Greece, starting from the notion of aletheia, from what we can know about the figure of the poet, and from the characteristic variability of Archaic poetry, as reflected in controversy among poets (also so-called 'philosophers') and in palinodes of the single poets.
2. Reception of Greek poetry in antiquity. The aim is to find a way to describe Greek literature more consonant with the Greek views in the various periods. This has several aspects:
a) Reception of invective poetry in antiquity.
b) The notions of mimesis and verisimilitude.
c) The pertinent traits of literary genres from a Greek point of view, in relation to their contexts of production and diffusion.
Overall, the aim of lines 1 and 2 is redefining the key categories of our comprehension of Greek literature in the various periods, focusing on the relation between reality and its representation and considering the conditions of production, diffusion and reception. 1. focuses mainly on production and 2. on reception; what in 1. is 'truth' is 'verisimilitude' in 2., but they have already converged, as expected, in my recent production.
3. Specific research on Greek drama, that in the last few years has concentrated on:
a) The ancient reception of this kind of invective poetry.
b) The complex issues surrounding the chorus, that has taken three principal directions: the presence of a chorus in Epicharmus; animal choruses; and a reassessment of the evidence on dithyramb, tragedy and the trochaic tetrameter. Chorality has been one of the principal subjects of the international research group under my coordination.
