Gabriele Roccella

Pronouns: he/him/his

Positions

Sessional Instructor

Faculty of Arts, Department of Classics and Religion

Contact information

gabriele.roccella@ucalgary.ca

Background

Educational Background

BA Classics, Università di Palermo,

MA Classical Philology, Literature, and Tradition, Università di Bologna,

Diploma Palaeography, Archival Sciences, Diplomatics, Archivio di Stato di Bologna,

Diploma Piano Performance, Music History, Harmony, Solfeggio, Conservatorio di Stato di Palermo,

Gabriele Roccella - Curriculum Vitae

Research

Areas of Research

Mythology, Ancient Greek Language and Literature, Latin Language and Literature, Sanskrit Language and Literature, Historical Linguistics, Indo-European Studies, Comparative Mythology, History of Religions

Courses

Course number	Course title	Semester
GRST 209	Classical Mythology	Spring 2020
LATI 201	Latin I	Fall 2021
LATI 203	Latin II	Winter 2022
RELS 205	Religion and the Good Life	Summer 2022

Publications

Journal articles

Did the Ancient Greeks Develop a “Happy Mythology” for Pastoral Gods? Exercises in Comparative Approaches to Divine Genealogies. Gabriele Roccella. Philology 4. 9-34. (2019)
Re-Semantizing hymnos: A Brief Survey of a “Supergenre”. Gabriele Roccella. Philology 4. 317-331. (2019)

Books and book chapters

Cenni storici sui Monti frumentari. Gabriele Roccella. Battista Antonelli e il monte frumentario di Gatteo. 8-9. (2016)
Inventario del fondo archivistico” and “Nota biografica e bibliografica di Ida Gianelli". Gabriele Roccella and Monica Di Rosa. L’arte declinata al femminile. La biblioteca di Ida Gianelli. 141-169. (2014)

Conference proceedings

A Contest for the Control of Ideological Space in Ovid’s Metamorphoses XI 146 – 194: Apollo/Augustus, Pan, and an Allegory of the Romanization of Hellenistic Lydia. Gabriele Roccella. Proceedings of the Conference "Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean. Spaces, Mobilities, Imaginaries" organized by the ERC Project MAP (Toulouse, France). (2022)