Giuseppina Paola Viscardi

FIRST CYCLE DEGREE/BACHELOR - 180 ECTS

DISCUSSED

• Figures of the divine: the myth of Danae and the metamorphosis of Zeus [CdS ARCO]
• Athena glaucopide: analysis of the semantic field of an ancient epithet [CdS ARCO]
• Votive fires in the pre-Roman Alps [CdS ARCO]
• Olympics: at the origins of the festival celebration [CdS ARCO]
• Ritualistic uses of bread as a cultural product [CdS ARCO]
• The myth of Demeter from a gender perspective [CdS ARCO]
• Cognitive anthropology and new sciences of religion [CdS ARCO]
• Myths of origin [CdS ARCO]
• Marija Gimbutas: "Before the patriarchate" [CdS ARCO]
• Pagan monotheism [CdS ARCO]
• The experience of the descent into hell: from the Homeric Nekya to the Virgilian catabasis [CdS STORIA]
• The plague of Athens: therapy and divination [CdS ARCO]
• Religion as a communication system: the sacrificial "case" [CdS ARCO
• Gods of the storm, gods of fertility in a comparative key [CdS ARCO]
• Necromancy [CdS HISTORY]
• Pagan elements in the Gnostic doctrine [CdS CLASSIC LETTERS]
• The Dances of Daedalos [CdS ARCO]
• From Lupercalia to Krampus: the renewal celebrations between ancient Rome and modern tradition [CdS ARCO]
• Bataille and the aesthetics of evil: the case of Baccanalia [CdS LETTERE]
• Paths of the myth: Medea's "case" between Euripides, Pasolini and Christa Wolf [CdS LETTERE, Curriculum in European Literary Cultures]
• The Fellowship of Isis. Mystery speeches between the ancient and the modern times [CdS ARCO]
• The concept of time in Mircea Eliade: evidence in the Greek myth and rite [CdS ARCO]
• The theater of Dionysus in ancient and late antiquity [Triennale di ARCO]
• The knowledge of the witch: from the textile sorceresses to the first trials for witchcraft or on female "madness" [CdS ARCO]
• Egyptian polytheism: Sacred spaces of dynastic Egypt [CdS ARCO]
• Saving function of euphoria in folk dances: ancient origins, modern repercussions [CdS ARCO]

WORKS IN PROGRESS

• Logos and feminine: from the voice of the pythias to the song of the sirens [CdS ARCO]
• Priestly knowledge, purification and sacred law in ancient Greece [CdS ARCO]
• The mysteries of Samothrace: the origins of the cult [CdS LETTERE]
• Italic reception of the cult of Mithra and possible Cilician origins [CdS STORIA]
• Pythias, Sibyls, Sirens: female figures from other worlds in classicism [CdS ARCO]
• Sleep and dream in ancient Greece [CdS ARCO]
• The gods of Homer and the idea of destiny in the heroic epos and in the Greek theogonies [CdS LETTERE]
• Demonic agency between medicine and magic in the ancient Egyptian religious system [CdS STORIA]
• The Corpus Hermeticum and its Rinascimental heritage [CdS STORIA]

SECOND CYCLE DEGREE/TWO YEARS MASTER - 120 ECTS

DISCUSSED

•  The kleidouchos epithet - Teaching unit [PHILOLOGY AND CLASSICAL TRADITION]
•  Living statues and where to find them [ARCHEOLOGY]
• The palingenetic function of fire between yesterday and today: bonfires at Segavecchia [ITALIANISTICS]
• The religion of the Samnites in the Osca Table of Agnone [HISTORICAL SCIENCES]
• Cosmogonic epics: a historical-comparative research between the Enuma Elis and the Theogony [HISTORICAL SCIENCES]
• Between demons and djinn: philological and historical-religious analysis of a category of minor divinities [PHILOLOGY AND CLASSICAL TRADITION]
• The myth of Erigone, the rite of the swing and the Roman oscillatio [PHILOLOGY AND CLASSICAL TRADITION]
• The charisma of Dionysus in the late antique tradition [PHILOLOGY AND CLASSICAL TRADITION]

WORKS IN PROGRESS

• Paradigms of sovereignty in ancient Greek and Norse narratives [HISTORICAL SCIENCES]
• On the nymphs in the ancient world [PHILOLOGY AND CLASSICAL TRADITION]
• Historical-religious analysis of the religious context of the Persephoneion of Locri Epizefiri [HISTORICAL SCIENCES]
• Papyri Magici Graeci: the rite of Systasis [PHILOLOGY AND CLASSICAL TRADITION]
• Processes of demonization of pagan divinities in early Christian writings: the case of the Bona Dea [PHILOLOGY AND CLASSICAL TRADITION]
• The figure of Dionysus and the eastern monarchies [HISTORICAL SCIENCES]