Staff profile

Andrea Giannotti is Teaching Fellow in Classics in the Department of Classics & Ancient History of Durham University, where he received his PhD Degree in July 2019 with a thesis entitled 'The Pre-Play Ceremonies of the Athenian Great Dionysia: A Reappraisal', supervised by P.S. Horky, Andrea Capra, and the late P.J. Rhodes, and planned to be published in 2024/2025. Before taking over this role, Andrea Giannotti has been Postdoctoral Researcher at the Italian Institute for Historical Studies ‘Benedetto Croce’ in Naples (2021-2023), and is currently Fellow of the International Centre for Studies in Ancient Theatre of the University of Turin and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Humanities of the University of Turin. He is also member-contributor of the epigraphic Axon Project of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and member-contributor of Attic Inscriptions Online. 

His areas of specialisation are Greek tragedy (mainly Aeschylus and Euripides), Greek history and epigraphy, on which he has published several papers and delivered many talks, lectures, and presentations.

His new commented Italian edition of Euripides’ ‘Suppliant Women’ (with an introduction of Andrea Capra) will be published in April 2023 with the Milan press ‘BUR Rizzoli’. For a full list of his publications, take a look at his Academia profile (https://boscobae.academia.edu/AndreaGiannotti).

Office hour: Wednesdays 2-3PM (Room 207); always available to arrange online meetings.

• Ancient Greek tragedy, history and politics

Authored book

• Giannotti, A. (2023). Euripide. Supplici. Milan

Book review

• Giannotti, A. (2019). 'Shaw (C.A.) Euripides: Cyclops. A Satyr Play. Pp. xiv + 158 ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Cased, £85. ISBN: 978-1-4742-4579-1', CR 69(2) (2019), 383-385
• Giannotti, A. (2017). 'Mulroy (D.) (trans.) Aeschylus: Agamemnon. Pp. xliv + 81. Madison. WI and London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2016. Paper, US$12.95. ISBN: 978-0-299-30634-2', CR 67(1) (2017), 305

Chapter in book

• Giannotti, A. (2022). A. Giannotti, 'Something to Do with Epigraphy? The "Aegeus Episode" in Euripides' Medea and the Honorific Dimension of Athenian Tragedy', in D. Leão, D. Ferreira, N.S. Rodrigues, R. Morais (eds), Our Beloved Polites: Studies Presented to Peter J. Rhodes, Oxford 2022, 314-321.
• Giannotti, A. (2021). '(Un)Masking the πόλις: The Pre-Play Ceremonies of the Athenian Great Dionysia as Theatrical Performances?', in E. Paillard, S. Milanezi (eds), Greek Theatre and Metatheatre: Definitions, Problems, Limits, Berlin 2021, 29-62.
• Giannotti, A. (2021). 'Per un'analisi intertestuale delle fonti della battaglia di Delio: Tucidide (4.89-101) e le Supplici di Euripide (650-730)', in O. Devillers, B.B. Sebastiani (eds), Sources et modèles des historiens anciens 2, Bordeaux 2021, 31-44.
• Giannotti, A. (2019). 'Teseo e l'araldo tebano: Atene e non-Atene a confronto (Eur. Suppl. 399-584)', in V. Ferrigno, S. Gorla, C. Larocca, M. Paris, E. Santilli, F. Sciolette (eds), Alter/Ego. Confronti e scontri nella definizione dell'Altro e nella determinazione dell'Io, Macerata 2019, 75-87.
• Giannotti, A. (2018). '"Cose orribili a dirsi, cose orribili a vedersi": la paura politica nelle Eumenidi di Eschilo', in M. De Poli (ed.), Il teatro delle emozioni: la paura, Padova 2018, 195-216.

Edited book

• Giannotti, A. (Ed.). (2020). Il teatro della πόλις tra intrattenimento e politica: nuove interpretazioni del dramma greco, FsS 1(2) (2020 Special Issue)

Journal Article

• Giannotti, A. (2023). 'The πόλις Between Fear and Respect. A Reassessment of Menelaus' Speech in Sophocles Ajax' DeM 14 (2023 forthcoming)
• Giannotti, A. (2022). A. Giannotti, 'Decreto onorario ateniese per Aristosseno', Axon 6(2) (2022), 29-46
• Giannotti, A. (2021). Debating Honor in Fifth-Century BCE Athens: Towards a Comparative and Intradisciplinary Approach. Primerjalna književnost (Tiskana izd.), 44(2), 39-52. https://doi.org/10.3986/pkn.v44.i2.03
• Giannotti, A., & Proietti, G. (2021). 'Legge di Taso sugli onori riservati ai caduti in guerra e alle loro famiglie', Axon 5(1) (2021), 123-154
• Giannotti, A. (2021). 'Debating Honor in Fifth-Century BCE Athens: Towards a Comparative and Intra-Disciplinary Perspective', Primerjalna književnost 44(2) (2021), 39-52
• Giannotti, A., & Proietti, G. (2021). Legge di Taso sugli onori ai caduti in guerra e alle loro famiglie. Axon, https://doi.org/10.30687/axon/2532-6848/2021/01/005
• Giannotti, A. (2020). 'Being Good Towards the People or the Democracy? The Formulation of Fifth-Century BCE Honorific Decrees', Mnemosyne 73(1) (2020), 1-20
• Giannotti, A. (2020). 'Religion, State, and Democracy: A Reappraisal to the 5th-Cent. B.C. Libations to Dionysus in the Theatre Attested in Plut. Cim. 8.8-9', Historiká 10 (2020), 11-44
• Giannotti, A. (2019). 'Lycurg. Leoc. 97-101 e la παιδεία di un frammento euripideo (fr. 360 K. = 12 Sonnino)', FsS 0 (2019), 177-200