Gabriel Alexandre Fernandes da Silva (B81E-CB1F-57C6)

Curriculum Vitae

Gabriel Alexandre Fernandes da Silva

Gabriel Silva obtained his Ph.D. in 2018 from the University of Lisbon, with a thesis titled ‘Inueni, germana, uiam: Studies on Magic in Vergil’s Aeneid 4 and in Latin Literature’. Currently, he holds a position of Invited Assistant Professor and Researcher at the Centre for Classical Studies at the same university. His research interests encompass Latin poetry (bucolism, elegy, and epic), ancient magic, and ancient/Renaissance medicine. Following the completion of his doctoral degree, Silva secured a research position in a funded project titled ‘Gynecia: Rodericus a Castro Lusitanus and the ancient medical tradition about gynaecology and embryology’, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Within the framework of this project, Silva further developed his interests in ancient/Renaissance medicine, leading to the publication of articles in high-impact journals. Subsequently, after the conclusion of his research position, he was invited to serve as an Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities. His recent publications include journal articles such as “Magic and Memory: Dido’s Ritual for Inducing Forgetfulness in Aeneid 4” (Mnemosyne 74.6), “Erichtho the Doctor? Medical Observations on Lucan’s Necromantic Episode” (Classical Quarterly 73.2, forthcoming), and “An Unnoticed Telestich in Vergil (Aeneid 8.246-9)?” (Classical Quarterly 74, forthcoming).

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Gabriel Alexandre Fernandes da Silva

Citation names

Gabriel A. F. Silva

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: B81E-CB1F-57C6

Education

	Degree	Classification
2013/09 - 2018/11 Concluded	Ph.D. Classics (Doutoramento) Major in Latin Literature Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal "Inueni, germana, uiam: Studies on Magic in Vergil's Aeneid 4 and in Latin Literature" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovado com distinção e louvor por unanimidade
2010/09 - 2013/02 Concluded	MA in Classics (Mestrado) Major in Tradução de Textos Clássicos Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal "As Dirae: Imprecação na Appendix Vergiliana. Introdução, tradução e notas de comentário" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	19 valores
2007/09 - 2010/07 Concluded	BA in Classics (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal	17 valores

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2009/09/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/01/15 - 2024/07/15	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30	Rodrigo de Castro Lusitano e a tradição médica antiga sobre ginecologia e embriologia. PTDC/FER-HFC/31187/2017	Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Centro de Estudos Clássicos UID/ELT/00019/2019 Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Cristina Santos Pinheiro; Bernardo Machado Mota; Alessandra Foscati; Miguel Mora, Carlos de; Gabriel A. F. Silva; Sílvio Fernandes; Melo, António Maria Martins; et al. A Medicina Completa das Mulheres. Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal: Afrontamento. 2023. Published • doi.org/10.51427/10451/57588 Cristina Santos Pinheiro; Joaquim Pinheiro; Gabriel A. F. Silva; Rui Carlos Fonseca. Gynaikeia: Colectânea de Textos Antigos de Ginecologia. Portugal: Húmus. 2022. Published Bernardo Mota; Cristina Santos Pinheiro; Gabriel A. F. Silva. Rodrigo de Castro. A peste de Hamburgo. Tratado breve da sua natureza e causas. Tradução, introdução e notas de Bernardo Mota; Cristina Santos Pinheiro; Gabriel A. F. Silva; prólogo de Jon Arrizabalaga [The Plague of Hamburg: Brief Treatise on Its Nature and Causes]. Porto, Portugal: Afrontamento. 2021. Published Gabriel A. F. Silva. Lucano. A Guerra Civil (Farsália) (translation of books 6 and 7). Relógio d'Água. 2020. Published Silva, Gabriel. Vergílio. Bucólicas. Lisboa, Portugal: Livros Cotovia. 2019. Published Silva, Gabriel. Vergílio. Geórgicas. Lisboa, Portugal: Livros Cotovia. 2019. Published
Book chapter	Gabriel A. F. Silva. "A Portuguese Treatise on the Plague: João Curvo Semedo's Tratado da Peste". In Pestes e Epidemias: Estudos Interdisciplinares em Humanidades. Portugal, 2022. Published Silva, Gabriel. "Misit Thyesteas Preces: Cursing and Magic in Horace's Epode 5". In Violence in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds, 377-385. Leuven/Paris/Bristol: Peeters, 2018. Published
Book review	Gabriel A. F. Silva. "Review of J. Draycott, Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy: From the Middle Republic to the Early Empire. London: Routledge, 2019. Classical Journal 119.1, pp. 123- 124.". Review of Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy: From the Middle Republic to the Early Empire 119, (2023): 123-124. https://cj.camws.org/sites/default/files/reviews/2023.08.04%20Silva%20on%20Draycott.pdf. Published Gabriel A. F. Silva. "BMCR Review of S. McKie, Living and Cursing in the Roman West: Curse Tablets and Society. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022". Review of Living and Cursing in the Roman West: Curse Tablets and Society (2023): https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2023/2023.06.26/. Published Gabriel A. F. Silva. "BMCR [Review of] Emilio Suárez de la Torre, Eros mágico. Recetas eróticas mágicas del mundo antiguo. Monografías de Filología Griega, 31. Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2021". Review of Eros mágico. Recetas eróticas mágicas del mundo antiguo (2022): https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2022/2022.04.03/. Published Gabriel A. F. Silva. "[Review of] Virgílio, Geórgicas III. Organização de Matheus Trevizam, traduções de António Feliciano de Castilho e Matheus Trevizam (Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2019)". (2021): 402-403. In press Gabriel A. F. Silva. "[Review of] Gregorio Rodríguez Herrera (ed.), Florilegios latinos y sociedad (Vigo: Editorial Academia del Hispanismo, 2020)". (2021): 408-410. Published Gabriel A. F. Silva. "Review of E. De La Torre, I. Canzobre Martínez, C. Sánchez-Mañas (edd), Ablanathanalba Magia, cultura y sociedad en el Mundo Antiguo, Madrid, Dynkinson, 2020". 71.2 (2021): Published Gabriel A. F. Silva. "[Review of] Lee Fratantuono, R. Alden Smith, Virgil. Aeneid 8. Text, Translation and Commentary (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2018)". (2020): 412-413. Published Gabriel A. F. Silva. "[Review of] Ovídio, Heróides. Introdução, tradução e notas de Carlos Ascenso André (Lisboa: Livros Cotovia, 2016)". (2020): 413-414. Published Gabriel A. F. Silva. "[Review of] Pseudo-Sexto Plácido, Liber medicine ex quadrupedibus. Magos y doctores. La medicina en la Alta Edad Média. Edición, tradución y estudio de José C. Santos Paz (Firenze: Edizioni del Galuzzo, 2018)". (2020): 418-419. Published Gabriel A. F. Silva. "[Review of] Leonardo Costantini, Magic in Apuleius' Apologia. Understanding the charges and the forensic strategies in Apuleius' speech (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019)". (2020): 453-454. Published Gabriel A. F. Silva. "[Review of] Maria Gerolemou (ed.), Recognizing Miracles in Antiquity and Beyond (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2018)". (2020): 462-464. Published Gabriel A. F. Silva. "[Review of] Harrison, S., Frangoulidis, S., Papanghelis, T., Intratextuality and Latin Literature (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2018)". (2019): 515-518. Published Gabriel A. F. Silva. "[Review of] Matheus Trevizam, Poesia didática: Virgílio, Ovídio e Lucrécio / Prosa técnica: Catão, Varrão, Vitrúvio e Columela (Campinas: Editora da Unicamp, 2014)". (2017): 636-638. Published Gabriel A. F. Silva. "[Review of] David J. Collins, SJ, The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015)". (2017): 629-630. Published
Edited book	Bonati, Isabella; Gabriel A. F. Silva. The Words of Medicine: Technical Terminology in Material and Textual Evidence from the Graeco-Roman World. De Gruyter. 2024. Under revision Cristina Santos Pinheiro; Gabriel A. F. Silva; Joaquim Pinheiro; Rui Carlos Fonseca. Gynecia: Studies on Gynaecology in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Texts. Portugal: Afrontamento. 2022. Published
Journal article	Gabriel A. F. Silva. "Doubtful Weather: An Acrostic in Calpurnius Siculus 5.45-9". Classical Philology (2025): Accepted Gabriel A. F. Silva. "Pay Attention, Please: A Didactic Acrostic in Virgil, Aeneid 6.847-850". Philologus (2025): Accepted Gabriel A. F. Silva. "I See You: Ovid Reads Catullan Wordplays". Classical Quarterly (2025): Accepted Gabriel A. F. Silva. "An Acrostic in Quintus Serenus Liber medicinalis?". Mnemosyne 77 4 (2024): 682-687. Published Gabriel A. F. Silva. "An Unnoticed Telestich in Vergil (Aeneid 8.246-9)?". Classical Quarterly (2024): Open access • Published Gabriel A. F. Silva. "The High Potential of Minor Poetry: Notes on Hosidius Geta's Reworking of Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics". Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 92 (2024): 225-240. Published Gabriel A. F. Silva. "Erichtho the Doctor? Medical Observations on Lucan's Necromantic Episode". Classical Quarterly 73 2 (2023): 777-785. Open access • Published Gabriel A. F. Silva. "Vt cecinit poeta: The presence of Virgil in Rodrigo de Castro's De uniuersa mulierum medicina". Graeco-Latina Brunensia 26 1 (2021): 171-182. http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/143918. Open access • Published Gabriel A. F. Silva. "Magic and Memory: Dido's Ritual for Inducing Forgetfulness in Aeneid 4". Mnemosyne 74 6 (2021): 1001-1014. https://repositorio.ul.pt/handle/10451/50119. Open access • Published Silva, Gabriel. "Old Women Practising Magic: Defining Features of Lenae from Plautus to Ovid". eClassica 4 (2018): 102-110. Published
Journal issue	Gabriel A. F. Silva. "eClassica 7". eClassica 7 (2022): http://www.tmp.letras.ulisboa.pt/eclassica-nova-serie/2824-eclassica-7-2022. Published • Editor Gabriel A. F. Silva. "eClassica 6". eClassica 6 (2020): http://www.tmp.letras.ulisboa.pt/eclassica-nova-serie/2817-eclassica-6-2020. Published • Editor

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/12/04	Agreste accento escuta: Abordagens vergilianas nas Geórgicas Portuguezas de Luís Mouzinho de Albuquerque	VII Colóquio Internacional A Literatura Clássica ou Os Clássicos na Literatura University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/10/20	The influence of Pliny in Gynecological Treatises of the Renaissance	Pliny the Elder on Medicine, Magic, and Religion University of Lisbon, School of Arts and Humanities, Centre for Classical Studies (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/09/15	Caelius Aurelianus as a Source for the Portuguese Renaissance Medicine	Caelius Aurelianus: Medicine and the Medical Tradition Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlim, Germany)
2023/07/05	Pliny the Elder on Animals and Gynaecological Prescriptions	Animals and the Environment in Ancient Mediterranean Medicine University of Exeter (Exeter, United Kingdom)
2023/03/18	The High Potential of Minor Poetry: Hosidius Geta's Interpretation of Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics	Greek and Latin Carmina Minora in Context University of Cyprus (Nicosia, Cyprus)
2022/10/17	Cento Alcesta: Reading Seneca's Phaedra through the Lens of Vergil	Seneca 2022. What More Can We Say About Seneca? Centre for Classical Studies (U. Lisbon) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/02/01	A História Natural de Plínio-o-Velho na obra Polyanthea Medicinal de João Curvo Semedo [Pliny the Elder's Natural History in João Curvo Semedo's Polyanthea Medicinal]	A Literatura Clássica ou Os Clássicos na Literatura Centre for Classical Studies (U. Lisbon) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/12/10	O livro 7 de Plínio-o-Velho na obra Enneas muliebris de Bonaccioli [Pliny-the-Elder's book 7 in the Enneas muliebris of Bonaccioli]	IV Seminário Projecto Gynecia Universidade da Madeira (Portugal)
2021/11/19	Nunc oblita mihi tot carmina: Hosidius Geta réinvente la poésie pastorale de Virgile	Écriture du/des Savoirs University Paris Sorbonne (Paris, France)
2021/06	Planets, Stars and Numbers: Astrologers and Rodrigo de Castro's De uniuersa mulierum medicina	Conference in Classics & Ancient History Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies (U. Coimbra)
2021/04/28	Magia na Eneida: o episódio de Dido	University of Madeira
2017/10/26	Old Women Practising Magic: Defining Features of Lenae from Plautus to Ovid	Age, Ageing and Old Age in the Greco-Roman World U. Gotemburgo (Gotemburgo, Sweden)
2015/05/14	Alimentos ao serviço da magia no Mundo Antigo	DIAITA Património Alimentar University of Madeira (Funchal, Portugal)
2014/09/25	Magical Practices among the Roman Aristocracy of the Time of Augustus	XIV A.D. SAECVLVM AVGVSTVM – The Age of Augustus Centre for Classical Studies (U. Lisbon) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/02/18	Cursing and Magic in Horace's Epode 5	Violence in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds Centre for Classical Studies (U. Lisbon) (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/11/09 - 2023/11/10	Conference entitled Pliny the Elder on Medicine, Magic, and Religion, on the occasion of the celebration of the bimillenary of Pliny the Elder's birth. The part concerning magic and religion was held in Rome (Biblioteca Vallicelliana and Istituto Danese). (2023/11/09 - 2023/11/10) Congress (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
2023/10/19 - 2023/10/20	Conference entitled Pliny the Elder on Medicine, Magic, and Religion, on the occasion of the celebration of the bimillenary of Pliny the Elder's birth. The part concerning medicine was held in Lisbon (National Museum of Natural History and School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon). (2023/10/19 - 2023/10/20) Congress (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal
2022/10/17 - 2022/10/20	Organizing committee of the international conference "Seneca 2022. What More Can We Say About Seneca?". This conference gathered scholars from the whole world, experts in the Roman author Seneca. (2022/10/17 - 2022/10/20) Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal
2022/06/27 - 2022/06/28	III International Gynecia Conference. Gynaecology and Embryology in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Texts (2022/06/27 - 2022/06/28) Congress	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal
2021/12/10 - 2021/12/10	4th Seminar of the Gynecia Project (2021/12/10 - 2021/12/10) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
2021/05/11 - 2021/05/11	Organization of the research seminar "Lisbon Classics Seminars", with the invited Leonardo Costantini (U. Bristol), who presented a paper entitled "Plato in the Correspondence between Fronto and Marcus Aurelius (2021/05/11 - 2021/05/11) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal
2020/03/26 - 2020/03/27	II International Gynecia Conference. Gynecology and Embryology in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Texts (2020/03/26 - 2020/03/27) Congress (Co-organisor)	Universidade da Madeira, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2022/12/13	"A Peste, uma cruelíssima fera. Repensar a peste antiga entre os séculos XVI e XVII - Ambrósio Nunes, Rodrigo de Castro e João Curvo Semedo" Thesis Member	Margarida Cunha Belém (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2021/12/03	SATVRAE DE PÉRSIO. Introdução, tradução e notas. (Thesis) Main arguer	João Pedro Agostinho dos Santos Riso (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2021/06/14	O patrocínio de Domiciano: o caso da Silva 1.1 de Públio Papínio Estácio. Tradução e estudo de um panegírico imperial (Thesis) Main arguer	Leonardo Filipe Garcias (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Distinctions

Other distinction

2009	Merit scholarship Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal