Simona Martorana
Publications
My current publications include a monograph on motherhood in Ovid's Heroides (Cornell University Press, 2024), a critical edition of a collection of Medieval Latin fables (Il Romulus della Recensio Gallicana: Testo, traduzione e commento); one edited volume (Body and Medicine in Latin Poetry, forthcoming with De Gruyter); a number of articles and book chapters in top-ranked journals and presses, focusing on Greek and (classical and medieval) Latin literature, as well as the application of modern theory to classical texts.
Books
Martorana, S. 2024. Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's Heroides, Cornell University Press: Ithaca (NY)
Martorana, S. (ed.) 2024. Il Romulus della Recensio Gallicana: Testo, traduzione e commento, Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo: Florence
Edited Volumes
Martorana, S., Pistone, A., and Sachs, R. (eds.) Reinventing Sappho, The University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, OK: under review
Blanco, C., Hahn, A., and Martorana, S. (eds.) 2025. Body and Medicine in Latin Poetry, Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes, De Gruyter: Berlin: forthcoming
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Martorana, S. 2025. “Seneca’s Tragic Hydrophobia: The Case of Tantalus”, Arethusa 58.3: forthcoming
Martorana, S. 2025. “Hercules’ affectus: The (In)Human Body in Seneca’s Hercules Furens”, Classical Antiquity: forthcoming
Martorana, S. 2024. “Written on the Body: Animated Objects and Narrative Agency in Prudentius’ Peristephanon 9”, The Classical Quarterly 74.2: forthcoming
Martorana, S. 2024. “Scribere iussit amor: Phaedra, Love, and (Roman) Law in Ovid’s Heroides 4”, American Journal of Philology 145.2: 237-264
Martorana, S. 2024. “Una Saffo queer? Rileggere Saffo attraverso le sue ricezioni nel contesto letterario latino”, EuGeStA 14: forthcoming
Martorana, S. 2022. “Omission and Allusion: When Statius’ Hypsipyle Reads Ovid’s Heroides 6”, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 112: 437-464
Martorana, S. 2022. “Tantalus Poeta: The Catalogue of the Great Sinners in Thyestes 1-13”, Classical Quarterly 72.1: 269-284
Martorana, S. 2021. “La nuova edizione critica della Recensio Wissenburgensis: alcune osservazioni sul ms. W (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Gud. Lat. 148) e sugli interventi di W2”, Maia 73.1: 216-227
Martorana, S. 2020. “(Re)writing Sappho: Navigating Sappho’s (Posthuman) Poetic Identity in Ovid, Heroides 15”, Helios 47.2: 135-160
Martorana, S. 2016. “Edita de magno flumine nympha fui: la voce di Enone tra figura mitica ed elegia soggettiva (Ov. epist. 5)”, Bollettino di Studi Latini 46.1: 41-60
Martorana, S. 2016. “Ovidian Intertextuality: Some Considerations on Tr. 1 and Met. 11”, Phasis 19 : 115-160
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Martorana, S. 2025. “The Body and the City: Disease, Fury and Self-Mutilation in Seneca’s Oedipus”, in C. Blanco, A. Hahn, and S. Martorana (eds.), Body and Medicine in Latin Poetry, De Gruyter: Berlin-Boston: 123-138
Martorana, S. 2025. “Landscapes and Bodies of Horror in Seneca’s Thyestes,” in G. Kazantzidis and C. Thumiger (eds.), Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond, Bloomsbury: London: 143-160
Martorana, S. 2025. “Re-enacting Rape: Medusa in Ovid’s Metamorphoses”, in E. Pyy (ed.), Ancient Rape Cultures: Greek, Roman, Jewish and Christian, Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae: Rome: forthcoming
Kamil, M. and Martorana, S. 2025. “(In)Human, All Too (In)Human: Ovid’s Tereus and the Vulnerable Body”, in M.L. Haley, A. Abbattista, C. Blanco, and G. Savani (eds.), Reassembling the Myth of Tereus from Homer to Ovid, De Gruyter: Berlin: 187-200.
Martorana, S. 2024. “Chaos and kosmos: An Ecocritical Reading of Seneca’s Thyestes”, in E. Eidinow and C. Schliephake (eds.), Conversing with Chaos in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Bloomsbury: London: 48-60
Martorana, S. 2023. “(Toxic) Masculinity between Hegemony and Precariousness: Alternatives to Heteronormativity in Briseis’ Portrait of Achilles (Ov. Her. 3)”, in A. McMaster, M. Racette-Campbell (eds.), Toxic Masculinity in the Ancient World, Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh: 136-149
Martorana, S. 2023. “Neque ... sine numine vincis: Thetis, Medusa, and (Literary) Creation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses”, in M. Paprocki, G.P. Vos, D.J. Wright (eds.), The Staying Power of Thetis: Allusion, Interaction, and Reception from Homer to the 21st Century, Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes, De Gruyter: Berlin: 181-203
Martorana, S. 2023. “Ancient Fables in the Middle Ages: A New Critical Edition of the Romulus Gallicanus”, in U. Gärtner, L. Spielhofer (eds.), Ancient Fables: Sour Grapes? New Approaches, Spudesmata Series, G. Olms Verlag: Hildesheim: 279-295
Martorana, S. 2022. “The Women and the Sea: The Subjective Seascape in Ovid’s Heroides”, in R. Clare, H. Williams (eds.), The Ancient Sea: The Utopian and Catastrophic in Classical Narratives and their Reception, Liverpool University Press: Liverpool: 165-180
Martorana, S. 2020. “Haec est Aeolidos fratri scribentis imago: Canace, Augusto e il dramma dell’incesto”, in S. Quadrelli, E. Subrani (eds.), I Figli di Eolo: Il motivo mitico e letterario dell’incesto tra antico e moderno, Longo: Ravenna: 65-75
Bibliographic Database Entries
Medioevo Latino. Bollettino bibliografico della cultura europea da Boezio a Erasmo (secoli VI-XVI), SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 38-41, 2017-2023 (ca. 1000 records)
Book Reviews
Martorana, S. 2022. Review: de la Escosura Balbás, M.C., Duce Pastor, E., González Gutiérrez, P., Rodríguez Alcocer, M., Serrano Lozano, D. (eds.), Blame it on the Gender: Identities and Transgressions in Antiquity, Bar Publishing: Oxford 2020, Journal of Hellenic Studies 142: 392-393 (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0075426922000581)
Martorana, S. 2021. Review: Fedeli P., Rosati, G. (eds.), Ovidio 2017. Prospettive per il terzo millennio. Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Sulmona, 3-6 aprile 2017), Ricerche&Redazioni: Teramo 2018, Athenaeum 109.2: 651-654
Martorana, S. 2020. Review: Vandersmissen M., Discours des personnages féminins chez Sénèque. Approches logométriques et contrastives d’un corpus théâtral, Latomus: Brussels 2019, Classical Review 70.1: 114-116 (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X19001537)
Martorana, S. 2015. Review: Mordeglia C. (ed.), Lupus in fabula: Fedro e la favola latina tra antichità e medioevo. Studi offerti a Ferruccio Bertini, Pàtron: Bologna 2014, Reinardus 27 (2015): 258-26
Other
Martorana, S. 2024. “Pompeian Graffitiste, ‘Trust me, Men Are Fickle’”, in G. Barker (ed.), Lesbiantiquity: An Anthology of Greek and Latin Writings about Women Loving Women 16: 1-6.
Non-academic Publication: Novel
L’altra Elena: la donna che avrebbe potuto evitare la Guerra di Troia, Elison Publishing 2017, ISBN: 9788869631368