Lidia Massa Positano (b. Lidia Positano; 1912 – 1984) was an Italian classical scholar, Professor at the University of Messina and at the University of Naples Federico II.
Biography
Early life and education Born in Naples, Positano graduated in Classics from the University of Naples, a student of Vittorio De Falco. Aged only 13, she published a book of original poetry, followed by a second collection in 1929, both of which were reviewed and praised by Ada Negri.; . Positano and Negri had an epistolary exchange between 1925 and 1930, which has resurfaced only recently and is now kept at the library of the Università Cattolica.
Work As a scholar, she was 'libero docente' in Greek literature at the University of Naples, then (from 1954) Professor in Greek and Latin grammar at the University of Messina, and later in Greek literature at the University of Naples where she also taught Greek palaeography.; . She published essays on Sappho, Sophocles and Solon.; ; . A "filologa classica non classicista", she had an interest in late antique Greek literature and critically edited the letters of Aeneas of Gaza and a treatise by Theophylact Simocatta,, (with ). and, in the field of Byzantine studies, the scholia on the "Persians" by Aeschylus written by Demetrius Triclinius. and John Tzetzes' essay on Ancient Greek comedy as well as his commentary on Aristophanes' "Plutus". She also translated and commented the first four mimiambs by Herodas and the fragments of Epicurean philosophy.; .
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