Lucia Prauscello

Classics, Linguistics

Senior Research Fellow since 2018

I studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy) throughout my undergraduate (BA) and graduate (MA, PhD) years. Ιn 2004–2006 I held the Momigliano Research Fellowship at the Department of Greek and Latin, University College London, and then I was lucky enough to teach and research for 12 years (2006–2018) at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, before moving to Oxford. I have always been interested in ancient Greek language and literature, literary papyrology, epigraphy and history. In the more recent past I also developed a marked curiosity for ancient Greek lexicography and glossography, and I am getting more and more interested in Graeco-Egyptian interactions.

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Email: lucia.prauscello@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

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Research Areas

Ancient Greek Language and Literature

Literary Papyrology

Transmission and Circulation of Ancient Texts

Greek History and Culture

Hexameters Beyond the Canon

(AHRC funded project 2022–2026: AH/W003554/1)
Existing literary histories of ancient Greek literature tend to focus on 'canonical' authors. The project aims at correcting this perspective by studying the diffusion and circulation of non-canonical Greek hexameter poetry within the multilingual and multicultural context of Roman Egypt from the 1st to the 6th century CE.