Publications
Publications
2025
Myth and philosophy – Two ecological readings of Sophocles’ Antigone: Irigaray and Cavarero, «de Filosoof» first issue 2025, 24-29, https://tijdschriftdefilosoof.nl/pdf/93.pdf
Ismene’s ‘Antigonism’: Listening, Dialogue and Affection, forthcoming in G.M. Chesi, M. Lietti, Queering agency and emotionality in Sophocles’ Antigone, De Gruyter 2025
Paul Ricœur on Sophocles’ Antigone and Oedipus: a ‘Tragic’ Ethics, forthcoming in Ricœur’s Reception of the Greek Classics: Myth, Tragedy and Poetics, Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception, Bloomsbury 2025
La contemplazione di Elena: passione, responsabilità e perdono nell’Iliade, forthcoming in «Estetica. Studi e ricerche» 2025 special monographical issue edited by A. Stavru, Elena: Fascino, Persuasione Responsabilità
2023
Scholarly publications
Scavello, G. (2023). Meditazioni omeriche sulla guerra nel terzo stasimo dell’Aiace di Sofocle, Ai. 1185-1222 (Homeric meditations on war in the third stasimon of Sophocles’ Ajax, Ai. 1185-1222). In A. Rodighiero, A. Maganuco, M. Nimis, & G. Scavello (Eds.), METra 2: Epica e tragedia greca: una mappatura (pp. 123-150). Edizioni Ca’ Foscari. https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-738-8
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/436474/Mono.pdf?sequence=1
Popularising publications
Scavello, G. (2023). L’Antigone corale di Puntozero: un Sofocle politico dal carcere minorile Cesare Beccaria (Puntozero’s choral Antigone: a political Sophocles from the Cesare Beccaria juvenile prison). Visioni del tragico. La tragedia greca sulla scena del XXI secolo. https://www.visionideltragico.it/blog/contributi/l-antigone-corale-di-puntozero-un-sofocle-politico-dal-carcere-minorile-cesare-beccaria
Scavello, G. (2023). L’Edipo Re di Chiara Guidi: indagine nelle profondità della voce (Chiara Guidi’s Oedipus Rex: investigation into the depths of the voice). Visioni del tragico. La tragedia greca sulla scena del XXI secolo. https://www.visionideltragico.it/blog/contributi/l-edipo-re-di-chiara-guidi-indagine-nelle-profondita-della-voce
2022
Scholarly publications
Scavello, G. (2022). Teatro e ‘propaganda’ filosofica: la persuasione tra Sofocle e i Sofisti nell’Aiace. Tycho, 2022(8), 29-49. https://www.uv.es/tycho/cas/08/3_Teatro_def.pdf
Scavello, G. (2022). THE STORY OF AJAX. Review of S.M. S. M. Bocksberger, Telamonian Ajax. The Myth in Archaic and Classical Greece. Pp. xxii 278, ills, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Cased, £75, US$100. ISBN: 978-0-19-886476-9. The Classical Review, 72(2), 717-719. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X22001524
Rodighiero, A., Scavello, G., & Maganuco, A. (Eds.) (2022). METra 1: Epica e tragedia greca: una mappatura. (Lexis Suppelements; Vol. 11). Edizioni Ca’ Foscari. https://doi.org/10.30687/978-886-969-654-1
2021
Scholarly publications
Scavello, G. (2021). Review of E. Allen-Hornblower, From Agent to Spectator: Witnessing the Aftermath in Ancient Greek Epic and Tragedy, Berlin-Boston, De Gruyter, 2016. Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, 129, 159-170.
2019
Scholarly publications
Scavello, G. (2019). Aesch. Fr. **451n Radt e una congettura inedita di Paul Maas. Eikasmos, 30, 25-36.
For other and previous publication consult L’ Année Philologique
See publications on our research portal
International Workshop ‘PoEthics’ 2: Poetry & Philosophy
International Workshop: ‘PoEthics’, Poetry & Philosophy – Homer, Sophocles and Affections
Seminario di studio ‘PoEthics’: Omero: poesia emozioni filosofia
Activities
2024
Workshop “Homer: Poetry, Emotions and Philosophy” (Omero: poesia emozioni filosofia), University of Verona, 18-19 December 2024 (Organiser)
19 Dec 2024
, Workshop “Homer: Poetry, Emotions and Philosophy” (Omero: poesia emozioni filosofia), University of Verona, 18-19 December 2024
Simone Weil: attention to suffering and action through the passions of poetry, Lunch Lecture – Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies (Speaker)
10 Dec 2024
Sophocles’ and Homer’s PoEthics, paper delivered at the International Workshop ‘PoEthics’, Poetry & Philosophy: Homer, Sophocles and Affections, Utrecht University 11-13 September 2024 (Speaker)
12 Sept 2024
, International Workshop ‘PoEthics’, Poetry & Philosophy: Homer, Sophocles and Affections
2023
Workshop online meeting with Bonnie Honig on Antigone, Interrupted (Cambridge Press, 2013), with students from the Tutorial “Tragedy and Philosophy: Sophocles’ Antigone in Ethics, Political Philosophy and Feminist Thinkers” (Organiser)
1 Dec 2023
, Workshop online meeting with Bonnie Honig on Antigone, Interrupted (Cambridge Press, 2013), with students from the Tutorial “Tragedy and Philosophy: Sophocles’ Antigone in Ethics, Political Philosophy and Feminist Thinkers”
Sophocles’ weak philosophy. Oedipus’ “knowledge”: altruism trough attention (Speaker)
31 Oct 2023
Ismene’s ‘Antigonism’: Attention, Listening, Dialogue and Affection, paper delivered at the seminar “The Feminine Turn – A Two-Days Research Seminar on Sophocles’ Antigone”, Freie Universität Berlin, 29-30 June 2023 (Invited speaker)
29 Jun 2023
The contemplation of Helen: passion, responsibility and forgiveness in the Iliad, paper delivered at the conference “Elena: Fascino, Persuasione Responsabilità”, University of Verona, 14-15 June 2023 (Invited speaker)
14 Jun 2023
2022
Formules sonores dans Homère (Invited speaker)
4 Nov 2022
, DAMON XXXVII (4-5 novembre 2022) «presque libre »: son et côlon, Université de Fribourg, Les Diablerets
Paul Ricœur on Sophocles’ Antigone and Oedipus: a tragic ‘ethics’ (Invited speaker)
15 Sept 2022
, VII Congresso iberoamericano sobre o pensamento de Paul Ricœur: “Ricœur e os clássicos”, University of Coimbra.
The ‘pensiero debole’ of Archic Greece: Achilles’, Ajax’ and minor characters’ ethics in Homer and Sophocles (Invited speaker)
6 Jul 2022
, Forschungskolloquium Gräzistik, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 6th July 2022
Meditazioni ‘omeriche’ nell’Aiace di Sofocle: guerra, violenza e persuasione (Invited speaker)
14 Jun 2022
, International Workshop METra 2: Mapping Epic in Tragedy, University of Verona
Tutorial “Poetry & Philosophy”, (Homer The Iliad, M. Heidegger, F. Hölderlin, Sophocles’ Antigone and Philoctetes, M. Vasalis, P. Paaltjens , G. Gezelle, Simone Weil ‘Venice Saved’), Block 2-3, 2024/2025
Tutorial “Tragedy and Philosophy: Sophocles’ Antigone in Ethics, Political Philosophy and Feminist Thinkers”(G.W.F. Hegel, M. Heidegger, R. Bultmann, P. Ricœur, M. Nussbaum, L. Irigaray, A. Cavarero, J. Butler, B. Honig, M.C. Rawlinson, S. Weil), Block 1, 2023/2024