Publications

Books

2024 "'Reconstructing Empedocles' Thought'", Cambridge University Press.
2011 "L’Ampia Natura di Empedocle." Pisa: Pubblicazioni online dell’Università di Pisa.

 

Volumes

In press Living Bodies, Dead Bodies and the Cosmos: Culturally Specific and Universal Concepts. Edited by C. Ferella, T. Pommerening and U. Steinert. Ancient Cultures of Sciences and Knowledge Series. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. (Publication scheduled for Spring 2024).
2018 Paths of Knowledge: Interconnection(s) between Knowledge and Journey in the Graeco-Roman World. Edited by C. Ferella and C. Breytenbach. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World, vol. 60. Berlin: Edition TOPOI. https://www.topoi.org/publication/47537/.

 

Journal Articles

In press “Anaximander’s Apeiron from a Cognitive Perspective” Journal of Cognitive Historiography 9.2.
2023 “Discussion of Tom Wellmann”, Die Entstehung der Welt: Studien zum Straßburger Empedokles-Papyrus. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte (Band 142. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. xiii, 234). Philosophical Papyri 1: 185–91.
2022 “Cosmic Emotions; or, Why is the Universe Joyful According to Plato’s Timaeus and Empedocles?” Aestimatio 3.2.: 13–45.
2021 “The Zoogonies of Empedocles Reconsidered.” Rhizomata 9.1: 1–26.
2021 “The Byzantine Scholia to Aristotle and Empedocles’ Cosmic Cycle.” Mnemosyne 74: 978-1000.
2019 "Empedocles and the birth of trees: reconstructing PStrasb. gr. Inv. 1665-6, ens. d-f 10b-18", Classical Quarterly.
2018 “Dogmata, Rules, Prohibitions: An Overall Investigation of the Pythagorean Symbola.” CHS Research Bulletin 6, vol. 1. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:FerellaC.Dogmata_Rules_Prohibitions.2018.
2017 “Waking Up Sleeping Metaphors: A Cognitive Approach to Parmenides’ Two Ways of Enquiry.” eTopoi: Journal of Ancient Studies 6: 107–30. http://journal.topoi.org/index.php/etopoi/article/view/280.
2014 Review of Ancient Medicine, by Vivian Nutton. The Classical Review 64, vol. 2: 525–26.
2008 “Il papiro di Derveni e le Teogonie Orfiche”, Studi Classici e Orientali 54: 187-212 (published 2011).

 

Volume Chapters

In press “Introduction.” (with T. Pommerening and U. Steinert) In Living Bodies, Dead Bodies and the Cosmos: Culturally Specific and Universal Concepts, edited by C. Ferella, T. Pommerening and U. Steinert. Culture of Science and Knowledge Series. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
2020 "War Steers the World: The Metaphor Domain of Conflict in Heraclitus’ and Empedocles’ Representations of the Cosmos”, in J. Althoff, S. Foellinger & G. Woehrle (Hgg.) AKAN – Antike Naturwissenschaft und Ihre Rezeption. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. Band XXX (2020): 9-34.
2020 "Early Greek Medical Metaphors and the Question of Deliberateness", in C. Di Biase-Dyson, M. Egg, Drawing Attention to Metaphors. Case studies across time periods, cultures and modes, Figurative Thought and Language Series, John Benjamins Publishers. Amsterdam.
2019 “The interaction between mind and soul in Empedocles’ philosophy”, Session/Paper number 46.1, The Society for Classical Studies; 149th annual meeting abstracts; January 4-7, 2018, Boston, MA, printed in Pythagoras foundation, newsletter, 24, Mars 2019, p. 16-17.
2018 "A Path for Understanding’: journey-metaphors in (three) early Greek philosophers", in C. Ferella, C. Breytenbach (eds.), Paths of Knowledge. Interconnection(s) between Knowledge and Journey in the Graeco-Roman World, Edition Topoi, Berlin. 2018: 45-71.
2018 ”Introduction” to C. Ferella, C. Breytenbach (eds.) Paths of Knowledge. Interconnection(s) between Knowledge and Journey in the Graeco-Roman World, Edition Topoi, Berlin. 2018: 7-16.
2018 *“Zeus’ μοῦνος and Parmenides’ what-is”, in M. A. Santamaría Álvarez (ed.), The Derveni Papyrus. Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, Brill. Leiden (2018): 65-74.
2014 Review of Vivian Nutton, Ancient Medicine. Second edition. London and New York: 2013 (first edition 2004)”, The Classical Review 64.2: 525-6.
2013 Empedocle, il giorno spietato e l’esilio dagli dei: a proposito di alcuni frammenti demonologici", in R. Di Donato (ed.), Origini e Svolgimento del Pensiero Greco. Studi per Jean-Pierre Vernant, Enrico Serra Editore. Pisa (2013): 29-47.

 

Outreach Publications

2019 “The Interaction between Mind and Soul in Empedocles’ Philosophy.” Abstract for Session/Paper 46.1, The Society for Classical Studies 149th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2018, reprinted in Pythagoras Foundation Newsletter 24 (March 2019): 16–17. https://www.stichting-pythagoras.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/N24-NEWSLETTER-24-2019-voll.pdf.
2019 C. Ferella, A. Milenkovic, M. Yamasaki, K. Zartner, L. Borghetti and M. “Report on the Workshop ‘Emotion Research: Current Methods and Approaches’,” GRK 1876 Blog, February 29, 2019. https://grk1876.blogspot.com/2019/03/report-on-workshop-emotion-research.html.
2019 “Mental Conflict from Homer to Eustatius,” GRK 1876 Blog, February 14, 2019. https://grk1876.blogspot.com/2019/02/lecture-by-prof-douglas-cairns.html.