Ginevra Benedetti is research fellow (2022 –) in Classical Philology at the University of Siena (Italy). After obtaining a PhD in Sciences of Antiquity and Archaeology – Project Pegaso from the University of Pisa and the Université de Toulouse Jean-Jaurès (conjoint PhD program), Ginevra was awarded a one-year post-doctoral scholarship (Anna Caroppo, 2021/2022) at the Collège de France in Paris. Her doctoral thesis got an award for best thesis on a historical topic from the Académie des Sciences et Belles Lettres in Toulouse (2023), and she also got an international award from the Anassilaos cultural association (Reggio Calabria) in the ‘Young Researchers’ category (2023). The author has collaborated and currently collaborates on various international projects (France, Germany, Spain), organising and attending many conferences. She has held numerous seminars in Italy and abroad, including a two-month position as chargée de conférences at the EPHE in Paris (2025).

Bibliographie sélective 

• 2025 (with Valentino Gasparini). “Fabricar un dios a la potencia: la copa de África de Boscoreale como estudio de caso de imágenes de dioses todopoderosos en el Mediterráneo antiguo”, in F. Marco Simón, F. Pina Polo & J. Remesal Rodríguez (eds)., Religión y comunicación: agentes, medios y contextos, Barcelona 2025, pp. 117-132 (on Academia.edu).
• “The aedes Concordiae Pantheae Augustae and the ‘pantheon’ of Gigthis: a possible reading of CIL VIII 22692 (II c. AD)”, in ARYS. Antigüedad: Religiones y Sociedades 22 (2024), pp. 111-130 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2024.8486).
• 2024. “Falling from Olympus: deconstructing the modern idea of ‘pantheon’ to translate the ancient panthe(i)on / pantheum”, in Ktèma Civilisations de l’Orient, de la Grèce et de Rome 49 (2024), pp. 63-76 (online: https://hal.science/hal-04832849v1/document).
• 2024. “Dii deaeque omnes. Il potere della ‘totalità’ nelle fonti latine”, in Mythos [Online] 18 (2024), DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/12hz4.
• 2024. “Pantheus, a “Total” God in the Greek and Roman World”, in C. Bonnet (ed.), R. Häussler (trans.), The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Cambridge 2024, pp. 173-188 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009394796.011).

 

• 2023. “Appropriation and bricolage of divine images. The case of the signa panthea, names and artefacts for ‘condensed’ gods”, in F. Porzia, C. Bonnet (eds.), Divine Names on the Spot II: Exploring the Potentials of the Name through Images and Narratives, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis), Leuven 2023, pp. 170-201 (online : https://www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?search_key=9789042951617&series_number_str=299&lang=en).

 

• 2019. “Quando gli attributi travalicano il signum. Riflessioni sull’identità visuale degli dèi a Roma”, in ARYS. Antigüedad: Religiones y Sociedades 17 (2019), pp. 105-137 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2019.4601).  

Contenus additionnels 

https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/it/dipartimento/persone/assegnisti-di-ricerca/benedetti-ginevra.

Mots clés

Greek and Roman polytheism: anthropological approach and comparative perspective; Roman religion: the representation of the divine in images, narratives and cults; Methodology and historiography of ancient polytheism; Configurations of divine sovereignty in Greek and Roman polytheism.