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Similar to other fellows, in my first post I am presenting my main research project. In the course of nearly a decade, the interest in and knowledge about the epic material attributed to Eumelus of Corinth has grown remarkably. On this area, I myself have endeavored to contribute via a series of studies beginning in 2003 to the present, including the monograph L’epica perduta. Eumelo, il Ciclo, l’occidente (Rome, «L’Erma» di Bretschneider, 2004). Now I feel the time is ripe to draft an edition that assembles the testimonia and fragments of Eumelus with a detailed introduction and commentary. The task is fairly compelling considering the absence of such a comprehensive resource in the current literature of studies on Greek epics. The commented edition I propose will consider the latest exegetical essays and some conjectural accounts of attribution (mostly mine) that considerably enrich the material collected in the modern editions (without… more