Dr. Irene Leonardis

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsAncient History,Greek and Latin Philology
KeywordsLatin, Roman Republic, Ancient Rome, Metaphorology, Roman History
Honours and awards

2021: BADW Forschungstipendium

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityMünchen
InstitutionBayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
InstituteThesaurus Linguae Latinae

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Filippo Carlà-UhinkHistorisches Institut, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam
Prof. Dr. Dr. habil. Catherine SaliouDepartement d'Histoire, Universite de Paris VIII (Vincennes a St Denis), Saint-Denis
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/2021

Programme(s)

2020Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2026Leonardis, I. (Ed.): Crises We Live By. A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context. John Benjamins, 2026
2025Leonardis, I.: Irreversible Corruption: Amputation Metaphors and the End of the Roman Republic. In: de Gruyter, Corruption in the Graeco-Roman World. Re-Reading the Sources . F. Carlà-Uhink – E. Faber, 2025. 81-105
2024Leonardis, I.: Un servo al bivio, tra basileia e ruinae: per una rilettura di Plaut. Epid. 1-101. In: RomaTre Press, Doctissimus antiquitatis perscrutator. Studi latini in onore di Mario De Nonno. P. d’Alessandro, A. Luceri, 2024. 3-15
2024Leonardis, I.: Reading Plato’s Laws to Understand Varro’s Antiquarianism. Possible New Evidence for Reconstructing the De Gente Populi Romani. In: Hermes 152, 2024, 470-484
2023I. Leonardis: Varro and the Re-foundation of Roman Cultural Memory through Genealogy and Humanitas,. In: Cambridge University Press, Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome. M. Dinter - C. Guérin, 2023. 97-114
2022Leonardis, I.: L’immanitas alla fine della repubblica: una minaccia all’ordine politico, morale e culturale di Roma. In: Maia, 74, 2022, 299-320
2021Leonardis, I.: La veglia e il ruminare: nota testuale a Plin. HN, praef. 18. In: Philologus 165, 2021, 169-174
2020Leonardis, I.: Varro’s Demonstration of Human Eternity in Light of Lucretius: Philosophy and Politics at the End of the Republic. In: Politica Antica X, 2020, 45-63
2019Leonardis, I.: Le età di Roma e la fine di un mondo: vita e morte del popolo Romano, secondo Varrone. In: Edizioni Dell’Orso, Età dell’uomo. Età del Mondo. M. Manca – E. Berardi, 2019. 95-116
2019LEONARDIS I,: Varrone, unus scilicet antiquorum hominum. Senso del passato e pratica antiquaria . BARI - EDIPUGLIA, 2019
2018Leonardis, I.: La città ideale e i limiti della riflessione filosofica. La Marcopolis di Varrone. In: Latinitas III, 2018, 17-33
2018Leonardis, I.: L'humanitas, secondo Varrone. La memoria della stirpe umana. In: Athenaeum 106, 2018, 487-503