Alberto Ravani
Research Topic
John Tzetzes’ Allegories of the Iliad
Supervisor
I am a third year DPhil student in Byzantine Literature. My research project is a new edition of John Tzetzes’ Allegories of the Iliad with an introduction which supports and explains the edited text focusing on context, language, metre and reception. The Allegories of the Iliad is a poem in political verse written to introduce the first wife of Manuel I Komnenos, Bertha-Irene of Sulzbach, to Homeric poetry. My main interests are Greek literature – especially poetry – textual criticism and manuscript studies. Further research interests include Greek culture and history from the classical antiquity to the contemporary age and comparative literature.
Before coming to Oxford, I gained a BA in Literature (curriculum– Classics) from the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna and then a MA in Classical literature from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Both degrees were awarded summa cum laude. In addition, I spent his second year of master’s as an Erasmus Student at the University of Hamburg.
