I am a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació (Secció de Filologia Grega). I have previously held teaching and research posts at the Universities of Liverpool, Oxford (Faculty of Classics and Linacre College), Minnesota, Copenhagen, and Venice.
My primary area of expertise is Literary Papyrology, with a special focus on Greek fragmentary poetry from the Archaic to the Byzantine times. I am in charge of a major project on anonymous hexameter papyrus texts, Adespota Papyracea Hexametra Graeca, the outcome of which was a first volume published by W. De Gruyter in 2020. The project collects and re-edits all anonymous hexameters on papyri, tackling issues of authorship and authority around texts of uncertain or unknown attribution from Graeco-Roman Egypt.
Beside poetry on papyri, I have published articles on a wide range of texts, including ancient astronomy, documentary papyri and the transmission and circulation of Greek literature in the Imperial and Byzantine times. I have a special interest in Hellenistic poetry. I am the main editor of a forthcoming volume on Hellenistic Poetry Before Callimachus, which revisits the traditional periodization of Classical literature, questioning the notion that Hellenistic aesthetics developed at Alexandria. In addition, I have written several articles on the fragments and epigrams of the early Hellenistic poet-philologist Simias of Rhodes, and I am planning a new critical edition of the fragments and epigrams.
CV and list of publications: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/archaeology-classics-and-egyptology/staff/marco-perale/ and https://liverpool.academia.edu/MarcoPerale/CurriculumVitae
