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. |