UCCIARDELLO Giuseppe

Giuseppe Ucciardello (Messina, 15/04/1972) graduated in Classics (1995). He studied at Neaples, Oxford, and Rome. He received his Ph.D. in Greek and Latin Philology in 2001. Since October 2015 he has been appointed Associate Professor in Greek Language and Literature (L-FIL-LET/02) in the 'Dipartimento di civiltà antiche e moderne' (University of Messina). He has been Principal Investigator of the project “Omero, Esiodo, Pindaro, Eschilo: forme e trasmissione dell’esegesi antica” (FIRB – Futuro in Ricerca 2012) funded by the ‘Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca’ (Italy). In April 2017 he obtained the ‘Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale’ as Full professor in Greek Language and Literature and in Classical Philology. He delivered several lectures in meetings and seminar sessions in Italy and abroad. He is a member of the board of the Doctorate school in 'Scienze storiche, archeologiche e filologiche' of the Università di Messina (Chairman prof. V. Fera). He is a staff member of the “Lessico dei Grammatici Greci Antichi” and of the "Supplementum grammaticum graecum" directed by Prof. F. Montanari (University of Genoa). He is currently editing new literary Greek papyri from the Egypt Exploration Society (London-Oxford) and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Aegyptische Museum und Papyrussammlung. His research interests cover a wide range of topics: Greek epic and lyric poetry (Sappho, Ibycus, Simonides, Pindar, Bacchylides, lyric fragments of uncertain authors), grammar and lexicography of the Hellenistic and Byzantine age, textual transmission of the Attic orators. In particular, he has been preparing the editio princeps of several lexicographical marginalia discovered in a Byzantine lexicon of the Palaeologan age (Lexicon of Giorgios Phrankopulos), in which he discovered new fragments of Attic orators.