About

Gianluca Bonagura

Université de Genève, Faculté des Lettres, Department Member

Other Affiliations:
Ghent University, Classics, Faculty MemberUniversità di Bologna, Filologia, letteratura e tradizione classica, Graduate StudentUniversity of Naples "Federico II" / Università di Napoli Federico II, Lettere Classiche, Graduate Student
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Research Interests:
Papirology, Ancient Greek History, Classical philology, Greek Papyrology, Documentary Papyrology, Greek Literary Papyri, and 5 morePaleography, Classics, Papyrology, Philology, and Greek Paleographyedit
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Gianluca Bonagura was born in Naples, Italy, in 1995. He studied at Federico II – University of Naples, where he received his BA degree in Classics (2018). Then he moved to Bologna, where he studied at Alma Mater Studiorum – UNIBO and received his MA degree in Classical Philology (2021) with the thesis ‘L’archivio di Apollonio di Bakchias: un’analisi filo... moreGianluca Bonagura was born in Naples, Italy, in 1995. He studied at Federico II – University of Naples, where he received his BA degree in Classics (2018). Then he moved to Bologna, where he studied at Alma Mater Studiorum – UNIBO and received his MA degree in Classical Philology (2021) with the thesis ‘L’archivio di Apollonio di Bakchias: un’analisi filologico-storica’ – under the supervision of prof. Fabian Reiter. Subsequently, he moved to Ghent (2021-2022) to work, first as intern and then as affiliated researcher, in the ERC project EVWRIT ‘Everyday Writing in Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt. A Socio-Semiotic Study of Communicative Variation’, led by Prof. Klaas Bentein.

Currently, he is a PhD candidate in the ‘Grammateus’ project led by prof. Paul Schubert at the University of Geneve. His task consists in examining the transition from the Roman to the Byzantine period from the perspective of the typology of tax receipts on papyri.edit
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The article presents a couple of textual observations to BGU I 249, a letter from the gymnasiarch Chairemon to his estate manager in Bakchias Apollonios. It also explores the letter’s relationship to BGU I 248, another piece of the correspondence between Chairemon and Apollonios which can be compared for similar content and notable expressions of affection.

Publisher: De Gruyter

Publication Date: Dec 1, 2022

Publication Name: Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete

Research Interests:
Historical Studies

Thesis Chapters

Publication Date: 2021

Research Interests:
History, Roman History, Greek Papyrology, and Ancient Greek Language

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Il presente elaborato ha come obiettivo quello di ricostruire la giovinezza e, più in generale, gli anni formativi di Alcibiade attraverso le notizie tramandateci dalle fonti antiche.
Nel primo capitolo viene sviluppata un’analisi della famiglia di Alcibiade dal punto di vista prosopografico, con l’analisi prima della famiglia del padre, Clinia, e poi di quella della madre, Dinomache. Successivamente si analizzeranno la natura e la consistenza del patrimonio.
Nel secondo capitolo vengono analizzate due fonti, che più di altre, hanno tramandato notizie sugli anni giovanili di Alcibiade: l’orazione pseudo-andocidea Contro Alcibiade e la Vita di Alcibiade di Plutarco.
Il tema della cattiva educazione di Alcibiade sarà analizzato nel terzo capitolo, ma si terranno presenti le fonti socratiche e la letteratura socratica su Alcibiade, che proliferò negli anni successivi alla morte di Socrate, accusato di aver corrotto giovani proprio come l’alcmeonide.

Research Interests:
Classical philology and Ancient Greek History

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grammateus is a research environment that offers a wide and analytic coverage of attested types of Greek documentary papyri from Egypt. This is precisely typology, by which we mean a study of the defining criteria that allowed scribes to give to the documents they were preparing a distinctive appearance corresponding to the intended use. Such criteria were not made explicit by the scribes themselves, or through an ancient handbook that would have spelt out the rules to be followed. Nonetheless, a certain consistency in the production of documents indicates that some rules were indeed transmitted along a chain of scribes who were active in Egypt from the late fourth century BCE till the seventh century CE, with some variation contingent on time and the place of writing.

grammateus is produced by a team of researchers based at the University of Geneva and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The web platform is in Open Access, free of charge. The underlying data is also made available to other researchers in a dedicated repository.

Our work relies on the use of papyri.info, a portal that gathers metadata from the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDBDP), the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens (HGV), and Trismegistos (TM). Finally, we draw extensively on secondary literature, such as monographs and articles that contain information or elaboration on the typology of papyri. This material is referenced in our bibliography. Whenever possible, we link our own platform to other relevant databases and printed literature.

Source: Bonagura, G., Chang, R-L., Ferretti, L., Fogarty, S., Nury, E., and Schubert, P. 2023. General Introduction. grammateus project. https://grammateus.unige.ch/introduction/general. (Accessed: 2023, December 15).