PALMISCIANO Riccardo

Riccardo Palmisciano (Rome, 1-10-1966) is Full Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Naples "L'Orientale". In 1991 he graduated at the University of Rome - La Sapienza, under the guide of Luigi Enrico Rossi. In 1996 he got the PhD at the University of Naples "Federico II".
He has pubblished many articles on Homer, lyrics, early dramatic performances, the relationships between traditional and authorial poetry, the Greek symposium. In each of these works he has tried to support the idea that in an oral culture, like the Greek was, the comprehension of the text requires a thorough investigation of the precise context (a ritual occasion for the most) in which that text was performed.
In 2017 he published a monograph about poetic and traditional dirges in archaic Greek culture: Dialoghi per voce sola. La cultura del lamento funebre nella Grecia antica, Roma : Quasar (Quaderni di SemRom 22).
Together with a group of researchers from Italian Universities he fulfilled the project of the "Submerged Literature" : G. Colesanti - M. Giordano - L. Lulli - A: Ercolani (eds), Submerged Literature in Ancient Greek Culture. I-III, Berlin - Boston : de Gruyter, 2014-2016.
Together with the University of L'Aquila, Siena and the CNR-ISMed, he organized four cycles of lectures about "Rethinking Orality, from Homer to Neuroscience": A. Ercolani - L. Lulli (eds), Rethinking Orality, I-II, Berlin - Boston : de Gruyter, 2022.
He is member of the scientific board of the journal “Seminari Romani di Cultura Greca”.
He is Editor-in-chief of the journal AION - Annali dell'Università di Napoli “L'Orientale", Sezione filologico-letteraria.
Together with L. Sbardella and A. Ercolani, he published the handbook, La parola e il canto. Incontri con la cultura e la letteratura greca, I-III, Milano : Mondadori Education / C. Signorelli, 2022