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Del gruppo Italiano di ricerca su "Origene e la tradizione alessandrina" are an Italian research group who publish an annual academic journal called Adamantius, reporting on recent academic work related to "Origen and the Alexandrian Tradition". The journal gets its name from Origen's nickname, adamantios (αδαμαντιος), which means "unconquerable" in Greek.

The research group was established in 1996 as a co-operative venture of six state universities: Chieti, Genoa, Padua, Perugia, Pisa and Turin. The group run an annual conference (convegno di studi del gruppo Italiano di ricerca su "Origene e la tradizione alessandrina") papers from which have attracted several reviews in the Journal of Theological Studies and also in de:Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum and Orientalia christiana periodica. Proceedings from the 2002 (Turin) and 2004 (Rome) conferences were published in 2004 and 2005 respectively, edited by Adele Monaci Castagno and Emanuela Prinzivalli.