I majored on Greek and Latin Languages at The Univeridade de São Paulo (1990) and I obtained master and doctorate degrees on Classics in 1996 and 2003, respectively, at same University. I taught Latin Literature and Language at some private universities and at The Universidade Estadual Júlio de Mesquita Filho at Assis/São Paulo. Besides that. I taught Portuguese Language and Literature at some High Schools in São Paulo also. Currently, Im Professor at Universidade de São Paulo at the Department of Classic and Vernacular Languages and Literature, teaching undergraduate and graduate classes, supervising both Master and Doctorate students. I was Vice-President of The Brazilian Society of Classical Studies (2010-2011), also President of Editorial Board of Classica (Brasil), the journal of the same Society, and I was its editor. I was chair of the Graduate Program of Classic Languages and Literatures/USP (2009-2011). I was Visiting Researcher at Kings College London (KCL) at The University of London, with sponsorship of FAPESP (2012), developing a study on poetical visualities (ekphrasis and phantasia). I am a researcher at the Program of Advanced Studies on Antiquitys Representations (PROAERA) at The Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and member of the group research Rhetoric and Artistic Doctrines (USP/CNPq). Currently Im coordinator of Nucleus of Research Imagines Antiquitatis Classicae IAC at The Universidade de São Paulo (USP), certified by both The Brazilian Society of Classical Studies (SBEC, affiliated to FIEC) and The National Council of Research (CNPq). I am a member of the Deliberative and Advisory Council of Brazilian Society of Rhetoric (affiliated ALR and ISHR). Im affiliated to ICS (Institute of Classical Studies, London). I published four books: Imagem e Poder, considerações sobre a representação de Otávio Augusto by Editora da Universidade de São Paulo (2012); Algumas Visões da Antiguidade by 7Letras/Faperj (2011); Literatura Latina by IESDE (2010) e Elegia Romana - Construção e Efeito pela Humanitas (2009) by more than forty papers. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The present research proposes to do an academic translation with introduction, notes, and comments of the Renaissance treatise De Statua by the Italian polymath Leon Battista Alberti. Originally written in Latin, De Statua is characterized as a practical guide to understand the principles of statuary, mainly those regarding anthropometry, according to the sculptural standards of the Itali…
This reaserch aims to understand the dinamics between mythological subject and elegiac genre on Propertius' elegies, having in mind that it is a poetics whose filiation is hellenistic, that is to say, in which mythology has estructural and decisive function. The work must be realized in two phases: 1) the theoric comprehension of antique poetic genres (precisely elegy) and myhology; and 2…
The ongoing research seeks to perform an unprecedented analysis of the thematic and formal correspondences between Roman elegy and love sambas. As we understand that there is much thematic similarities between the authors, this research will use the works of the poet Sexto Propertius and Paulinho Da Viola's sambas to discuss the status of love in the both artworks. Even though they are te…
This research aims to map, read and analyses the feminine myth's images in the Propertius' elegies. Having in mind that those poems were written in Rome of the I b.C., it is our role to identify who is the woman of that poetry, in which sphere and position she acts and what function she performs in propertian's poetic work. We concentrate efforts in the retoric construction of the feminin…
This research seeks to examine the book XXXVI of Pliny the elders Natural History, which is mainly about minerals and its applicability in the fine arts. in addition to the translation of the book, this study will comment it on the following aspects: a)working on a glossary of terms which will indicate the name of the work of art as well as the procedures, techniques and effects responsib…
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Studying the relation between Roman Elegy's common places and Brazilian Samba's, we realized that the similarities go beyond the poetic material: the social aspect that involves both artists is surprisingly alike. In this sense, this research aims not only to deepen the study of common places in both authors - the mainly objective of the research on Brazil -, but to further describe the s…
When I was trying to understand the dynamics between mythology and the elegiac genre in Propertius' elegies - the main objective of the ongoing research in Brazil -, the relationship between mythology and aetiology in Propertius' fourth book became evident. In this sense, it is important to investigate not only aetiological elegy, but also the importance of mythology in this type of produ…
Bacchus (also called Liber/Lyaeus/Lenaeus) plays different roles in Augustan poetry, being often depicted as a sympotic and orgiastic divinity, a patron of poetry and a deified hero. This research will analyse the associations between Bacchus and patronage in Augustan poetry, approaching issues of sympotic celebration and Dionysiac poetics. I will be particularly interested in Liber as an…
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