Paula da Cunha Corrêa

Paula da Cunha Corrêa is an associate professor of Greek language and literature at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She is known for her work on Archilochus and Greek lyric poetry.

Career

Da Cunha Corrêa graduated in literature from the University of São Paulo in 1985. In 1986-87 she studied for an MA at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, writing her thesis on ' Harmonioi and Nomoi' under the supervision of Martin West. She began studying for her DPhil at the University of São Paulo with a scholarship from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, and in 1993-94 was a visiting student at Hartford College, Oxford. Her doctoral thesis, completed in 1995 under Maria Sylvia de Carvalho Franco, was titled ' Armas e Varões na lírica de Arquíloco de Paros''' (Weapons and men in the lyric poetry of Archilochus of Paros). She has been interviewed on Brazilian television about teaching Latin and Greek.

She is currently working on a translation and commentary of the Catalogue of Women.

Awards

In 2008 she received the Livre-docência, the highest academic award in Brazil,

In July 2019 da Cunha Corrêa was a keynote speaker at the XVth Congress of FIEC (the International Federation of Associations of Classical Studies) and the Classical Association annual conference.

Selected publications

1993. 'O Fragmento 2W de Arquíloco.' Clássica (São Paulo), 2, 87-93. 1997. 'Arquíloco e Heráclito. ' Kleos - Revista De Filosofia Antiga, 1.1, 47-62. 1998. 'A Escrita na Fábula de Arquíloco.' Revista da Anpoll, 4, 249-261. 2009. Armas e Varões; A Guerra na Lírica de Arquíloco. 2nd ed. São Paulo: Editora da UNESP. 2009. Harmonia; Mito e Música na Grécia Antiga. 2nd. ed. São Paulo: Editora Humanitas. 2010. Um Bestiário Arcaico; Fábulas e Imagens de Animais na Poesia de Arquíloco. Campinas: Editora da Universidade de Campinas - EDUNICAMP. 2012. With Santos, Macedo, Hasegawa (eds.). Hyperboreans. Essays in Greek and Latin poetry, philosophy, rhetoric and linguistics. São Paulo: Humanitas. 2016. 'The 'Ship of Fools' in Euenus 8b and Plato's Republic 488a-489a.' In eds. Swift., Carey. Iambus and Elegy, New Approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 291-309. 2018. 'Reintroducing Classics in a Brazilian Public School: Project Minimus in São Paulo.' In eds. Holmes-Henderson, Hunt. Musié. Forward with Classics: Classical Languages in Schools and Communities''. London: Bloomsbury. p. 55-66.