Invited Researcher of DEA Programme Stay in France: from November 1st to November 30th, 2022
After a master in Greek Literature and a PhD in Anthropology of the Ancient World from the University of Siena, Silvia Romani taught for some years at the University of Turin and, since 2017, she has been Associate Professor of Anthropology, Religions and Mythology of the Antiquity at the University of Milan. She deals in particular with female figures in myth and ancient religion and with issues related to the representation of the female body in antiquity.
The projet
Title: The Gendered Emptiness. Sex, Gender, and the Body in Ancient Mythology, Religion, and Beliefs
Keywords: Ancient Religion and Anthropology, female Figures in Ancient Myth and Religion
Selected publications
2022 (Forthcoming) The Resistance of Bodies in Myth and Polytheistic Religion. T. Canella, S. Botta (eds.). «SMSR» 2 (2022)
2022 (Forthcoming) Irrelevant Bodies: The Creation of Woman as a Model of Post-Natural Creation. E. Di Rocco, C. Lombardi (eds.). Myths of Origins as Patterns of Literary Creation. Leiden: Brill
2022, Saffo, La Ragazza di Lesbo, Einaudi, Torino (book)
2022, La Sicilia degli dèi, with G. Guidorizzi, Cortina, Milano (book)
2021 Tutta colpa di Giocasta. S. Beta, S. Romani (eds.). Tirsi per Dioniso. A Giulio Guidorizzi, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, pp. 297-302
2020 Animali fantastici e dove trovarli, a Cipro. «SMSR», vol. 86, pp. 641-654
2020 Translated Bodies: a ‘Cartographic’ Approach. A. Violi, B. Grespi, A. Pinotti, P. Conte (eds.). Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 45-61
