Biography
- BA Classics (2016-2019), Girton College, Cambridge
- MPhil Classics (2019-2020), Girton College, Cambridge (funded by the Faculty of Classics)
- PhD Classics (2020-present), Emmanuel College, Cambridge (funded by the Faculty of Classics)
Research
- Early imperial and late antique Greek poetry
- Homeric reception
- Sense-perception in late Greek poetry
- Theories of intertextuality
- Encyclopedic narratives
- Centos
- Techniques of textual 'enhancement' (e.g. acrostics)
I was invited/sought opportunities to speak at international academic conferences organised by institutions based in the US, UK, Austria, Malta, and Spain.
Publications
Key publications:
- Praticò, D. (forthcoming). 'Succession and Marriage in Nonnus' Dionysiaca'. Hermes.
- Praticò, D. (2023). ‘Odyssean Mediations in Eudocia's Martyrdom of Cyprian’. Cambridge Classical Journal. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1750270523000039
- Praticò, D. (2023). 'Homeric' Acrostics. Eudocia, Homerocentones (I), 452-455, 942-946. Mnemosyne. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-bja10200
Teaching and Supervisions
Teaching:
- Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (running reading classes on Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, Sallust’s Catiline, Homer’s Iliad, Greek grammar).
- Supervisor (leading small-group teaching sessions on Greek and Latin translation, Greek epic, Aristophanes’ Frogs, Euripides’ Bacchae, the Greek Novel, and female characters, voices, and authors in Greek literature, from Alcman to Julia Balbilla).
- Invited Lecturer for third-year undergraduate students (‘Homeric Reception: Greek Literature’s Odysseuses’).
