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• Archaic and Hellenistic poetry
• Texts and contexts of Greek Lyric poetry
• Greek literary papyri
• Fragmentarily preserved texts

An expert on archaic and Hellenistic poetry, he has published an edition of Callimachus, and important studies on Hesiod, Greek Lyric poetry, Pindar, and, more generally, on Greek literary papyri.

• GB D’Alessio (2012) “The Lost Isthmian Odes of Pindar”, in in P. Agócs, C. Carey and R. Rawles (eds.), Reading the Victory Ode, CUP, pp. 28-57                                                                                                       [Chapter]
• GB D'Alessio (2009) 'Defining local identities in Greek lyric poetry', in R. Hunter and I. Rutherford (eds.), Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture, CUP, pp. 137-16                                                                    [Chapter]
• GB D'Alessio (2009) 'On the "Artemidorus" papyrus' Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (171), pp. 27-43.                                     [Article in print Journal]
• GB D'Alessio (2009) 'Re-constructing Pindar’s First Hymn: The Theban “Theogony” and the Birth of Apollo', in Apolline Politics and Poetics : International Symposium, Delphi 4-11 July 2003 pp. 128-147          [Chapter]
• GB D'Alessio (2007) Callimaco. Inni, Epigrammi, Ecale, Aitia, Giambi e altri frammenti 4th edition, revised and augmented Milan: BU     [Authored Book in print]
• GB Battista D'Alessio (2004) 'Past Future and Present Past: Temporal Deixis in Greek Archaic Lyric' ARETHUSA, 37 (3), pp. 267-294       [Article in print Journal]

Greek Epic and Lyric Poetry; Drama; Prose; Greek Language and Metre

I  am interested in supervising graduate research students in:

• Greek Epic and Lyric Poetry
• Hellenistic Poetry
• Greek Literary Papyri
• Issues of continuity and discontinuity in poetic communication across Greek literary history    
  
• In general, any other intriguing topics concerning Greek poetic texts!

Greek Lyric Poetry; Greek Hellenistic Poetry; Greek Literary Papyri