- Greek tragedy and satiric drama: study of the dramatic
pseudo-Euripidean fragments attributed to Critias.
- Greek comedy: the fragments of Aristophanes' Old Age.
- Computer science and teaching of greek language and
literature.
- History of Classical studies.
- The dramatic works of Critias, ‘the tyrant': textual and
exegetical analysis of a pseudo-euripidean tetralogy, probably
written by Critias. His memory, after the end of the government of
the ‘thirty tyrants' (403 a. C.) in Athens, suffered a true
damnatio. According to Wilamowitz's likely hypothesis -
accepted by several authoritative scholars (Snell e Kannicht, for
example), but argued by others (see Page, for example) - the author
of the tragedies Pirithous, Tennes and
Radamanthus, regarded as spurious in the Life of
Euripides, and of the satyr play Sisyphus shoud be
recognised not as the great tragic poet Euripides, as most of the
ancient sources say, but as the politician and learned man Critias,
as Athenaeus (XI 496b) and Sextus Empyricus (Adv.
Math. 9,54) attest. Supervisor of this research project
(wissenschaftlicher Mentor) is Prof. Dr. Heinz-Günther Nesselrath
of the University of Göttingen: its result will be a critical
edition with a commentary of the dramatic fragments ascribed to
Critias. A first essay – about the argumentum of
Peirithoos – was published in the journal “Hermes”: G.
Alvoni, Nur Theseus oder auch Peirithoos? Zur Hypothesis des
Pseudo-Euripideischen „Peirithoos“, „Hermes“ CXXXIV (2006)
290-300. As far as the fr. 1, 3 and 4 Sn.-K. of Peirithoos is
concerned, see the article Eracle ed Eaco alle porte
dell'Ade (Critias fr. 1 Sn.-K.) , "Philologus" CLII/1 (2008)
40-48, and Autogenerazione della divinità. Da Crizia (frammenti 3 e 4 Snell-Kannicht) al dio cristiano, “ZAC” XVI/3 (2012) 477-486. As far as the Sisyphus fragment (19 Sn.-K.) is concerned, see Die Rhesis des Sisyphos über den Ursprung der Religion (Kritias, Fr. 19 Sn.-K.), “Paideia” LXXII (2017), 467-481. About the Peirithoosfrage see the essay Ist Critias
fr. 1 Sn.-K. Teil des «Peirithoos»-Prologs? Zu Wilamowitzens
Memorandum über die ,Peirithoosfrage' , „Hermes“ CXXXIX (2011)
120-130.
- Aristophanes' comedy, with a special attention to its
relationship with the Greek tragedy: allusions to and parodies of
tragedy in Aristophanes' works. To this research field belong the
following reviews: C. Brockmann, Aristophanes und die Freiheit
der Komödie. Untersuchungen zu den frühen Stücken
unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Acharner
(“Gymnasium” CXII/4, 2005, 387-389), F. Casolari, Die
Mythentravestie in der griechischen Komödie (“Gymnasium”
CXIIII/5, 2007, 495-497), M. Revermann, Comic Business
(2006), “Gnomon” LXXXI/4 (2009) 291-294, B. Zimmermann, La commedia greca. Dalle origini all’età ellenistica. Edizione italiana a cura di Sotera Fornaro (2010), “Gymnasium” CXX/2 (2013) 193-194.
- The language of the Greek epigram: employ of ‘zoe biou' in an
epigram written by Julianus, Prefect of Egypt (AP VI 68,
10). A thorough study of the expression ‘biou zoe / zoe biou' in
the Greek literary language allows us to understand better its
employ – as only Dübner did in the past time - in Julianus'
epigram: see G. Alvoni, Die Lebensbahn (AP VI 68,
10), “Hermes” CXXXIII/2 (2005) 243f.
- The role of the computer tools for researching and teaching in
the field of Greek language and literature. Bibliographic and
textual databases, and other electronic resources, can be very
helpful - besides the traditional tools - both for researching and
for teaching in the field of classics. In this regard see G.
Alvoni, Strumenti elettronici nella didattica della letteratura
greca: qualche esperienza (“Aufidus” XVII n. 50, 2003,
105-115), and the following reviews: T. Bechthold-Hengelhaupt,
Alte Sprachen und neue Medien (“Gymnasium” CX/4, 2003,
408s.), Tra ‘volumen' e byte. Per una didattica
sostenibile della cultura latina. Una guida a più di 50 siti web
(seri, divertenti, kitsch) che ospitano il latino, a c. di
Roberto M. Danese. Testi di Andrea Bacianini e Alessio Torino
(“Maia” LVII/1, 2005, 234-236), Kybernetes. Il greco classico
in rete. Una guida ai siti internet che ospitano il greco
classico. Con aggiornamenti di Tra ‘Volumen' e byte, a c. di
Roberto M. Danese, testi di Valentina Millozzi, Andrea Bacianini e
Alessio Torino (2004) ( “Maia” LVIII/3, 2006, 590-592); see also
the online updating of the book Scienze dell'antichità per via
informatica. Banche dati, Internet e risorse elettroniche
nello studio dell'antichità classica, con contributi di U.
Rausch e un'introduzione di F. Montanari, Bologna 2002:
www.kirke.hu-berlin.de/alvoni/ (webpages edited together with Prof.
Dr. Ulrich Schmitzer, Humboldt Universität Berlin) and of
Altertumswissenschaften digital. Datenbanken, Internet
und e-Ressourcen in der altertumswissenschaftlichen Forschung.
Mit Beiträgen von U. Rausch, Hildesheim-Zürich-New York 2001: www.olms.de. About distance learning see DaD: un’esperienza nell’àmbito della didattica del greco antico, “NS” XXXVIII/3 (2020) 53-62.
- History of classical scholarship. Giovanna Alvoni is a member
of the editorial board of the journal „Eikasmós - Quaderni
Bolognesi di Filologia Classica“, which devotes a whole section to
the history of classical scholarship; see also the Bibliografia
di Enzo Degani, in Filologia e storia. Scritti di
Enzo Degani, a c. di Maria Grazia Albiani, Giovanna Alvoni, A.
Barbieri, F. Bossi, G. Burzacchini, F. Citti, F. Condello, Elena
Esposito, Alberta Lorenzoni, M. Magnani, Ornella Montanari,
Simonetta Nannini, C. Neri, V. Tammaro, R. Tosi,
Hildesheim-Zürich-New York 2004, XVII-XXXV, and Enzo Degani, in Magistri et discipuli. Kapitel zur Geschichte der Altertumswissenschaften im 20. Jahrhundert, hrsg. von W. Appel (“Xenia Toruniensia VII”), Torunii MMII, 221-236.
