HelleNET

An International Research Network on

Hellenistic Studies

HelleNET: An International Research Network on Hellenistic Studies

HelleNET is an international and interdisciplinary research network dedicated to the study of the Hellenistic world and its enduring intellectual, cultural, and scientific legacy.

Connecting scholars across continents, HelleNET promotes collaboration across disciplines, generations, and borders through research projects, academic exchanges, seminars, workshops, and conferences.

HelleNET is international by nature, interdisciplinary by vocation, and collaborative by design.

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Scouring the Pnyx (and the σκηνάς): An Ancient Scholion to Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae
Oct 12
Scouring the Pnyx (and the σκηνάς): An Ancient Scholion to Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae

Sergio Traversa | PhD Candidate | Università degli Studi Roma Tre

Seminar Chair: Dr. Pietro Berardi (Università degli Studi di Bari ‘Aldo Moro’)

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Describing the Indescribable: Callimachus, Iambus 6 and Phidias' Statue of Zeus
Oct 19
Describing the Indescribable: Callimachus, Iambus 6 and Phidias' Statue of Zeus

Antonio Papapicco | PhD Candidate | Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

Seminar Chair: Dr. Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (The Ohio State University)

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The Kynomorphism of Anubis in Iconography and Cult: Between Animal and Human, Between Egypt and Greece
Nov 2
The Kynomorphism of Anubis in Iconography and Cult: Between Animal and Human, Between Egypt and Greece

Wojciech Mazur, PhD Candidate, University of Liverpool

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θάλαττα and Beyond: Xenophon and the Peoples of the Black Sea Descent
Dec 7
θάλαττα and Beyond: Xenophon and the Peoples of the Black Sea Descent

Giorgi Barnabishvili, PhD Candidate, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

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Reading Theocritus Through Intratextuality and Gender: Critical Approaches to a Translation and Commentary on Ten Idylls
Jan 25
Reading Theocritus Through Intratextuality and Gender: Critical Approaches to a Translation and Commentary on Ten Idylls

Dr. Leonor Hernandez, Postdoc, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Seminar Chair: Professor Ivana Petrovic (University of Virginia)

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Hellenistic Cremation Practices

Panagiota Bantavanou, PhD Candidate, Democritus University of Thrace

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Leonidas of Tarentum as a Hellenistic Poet
Mar 1
Leonidas of Tarentum as a Hellenistic Poet

Dr. Davide Massimo, FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellow, Ghent University

Seminar Chair: Regina Höschele (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

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Callimachus and Cleanthes on Zeus: Poetry, Theology, and Competition
Mar 22
Callimachus and Cleanthes on Zeus: Poetry, Theology, and Competition

Zachary Haines, PhD Candidate, University of Virginia

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Between the Peripatos and the Suda: Tracing Hellenistic Biographical Traditions
Apr 12
Between the Peripatos and the Suda: Tracing Hellenistic Biographical Traditions

Dr. Claudia Nuovo, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of the Republic of San Marino

Seminar Chair:  Prof. Rosa Otranto (University of Bari Aldo Moro)

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οἷα ἐκ τριόδου: The Confluence of Magic and Medicine in Graeco-Egyptian Alchemical Practice
May 3
οἷα ἐκ τριόδου: The Confluence of Magic and Medicine in Graeco-Egyptian Alchemical Practice

Mary Curwen, PhD Candidate, Yale University

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The Critical Agenda in the Scholia to Apollonius Rhodius: Rhetoric, Terminology and 'Silences'
Jun 7
The Critical Agenda in the Scholia to Apollonius Rhodius: Rhetoric, Terminology and 'Silences'

Dr. Lisa Doyle, Visiting Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin

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