Elena Merli

Elena Merli studied Classics at University of Pisa and at Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, where she earned the diploma di Perfezionamento (PhD). After many years in Berlin, from 2004 she is Associate Professor of Latin Literature at L’Aquila University. Her main field of research is Latin poetry of the classical age, with focus both on formal aspects (literar genre, esp. elegy and epigram; intertextuality; poetry books) and on ideology and culture (poets and emperors; patronage; roman values). She is the author of Arma canant alii (Firenze 2000), about epic episodes in Ovid’s fasti, of Dall’Elicona a Roma (Berlin 2013), about poetologic images in flavian poetry, and of numerous articles on (among other topics) Ovid, Persius, Lucan, roman satire, and esp. on Martial.