Elena Rossi Linguanti

Elena Rossi is Associate Professor at the University of Pisa, in the field of Classical Philology. She has published two of Seneca’s tragedies (Hercules furens and Hercules Oetaeus, introduction and translation) and two of Plautus comedies (Persa and Stichus, introduction). Her research interests lie in the classical tradition, particularly its modern rewritings. She has published a book on the Fortleben of Seneca’s Thyestes (Una metafora presa alla lettera: le membra lacerate della famiglia. Tieste di Seneca e i rifacimenti moderni, 1989), one on Racine’s classical sources (Les détours obscurs’: le annotazioni di Racine alle tragedie greche, 1994) and a number of essays on intertextual connections (on Rotrou, Corneille, Racine, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Dryden, Swinburne and Alfieri). She has written two essays on Alcestis’s fortune in Latin literature, one on Alcestis Barcinonensis and one on the Vergilian cento Alcesta. Lately she dealt with some Victorian writers and their rewritings of classical works (Prometheus’ translation by Elizabeth Barrett, Browning’s Balaustion’s Adventure). Recently she published a critical edition of Augusta Webster’s Medea in Athens and Amy Levy’s Medea, with introduction, two critical essays and translation of the texts.