Professors
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cultural contact, digital humanities, Greek lexicology and morpho-syntax, linguistics, multimodality and social semiotics, mulilingualism, non-literary writing
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Medieval Greek textbooks and manuscripts
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late antique and medieval Greek literature (esp. poetry), literary translation, cultural memory
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ancient fiction, biography, hagiography, ancient rhetoric, physiognomy, narratology, literary theory, character(ization)
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literature and poetics from Late Antiquity, ancient literature of knowledge, acts and passions of the early Christian martyrs, the Panegyrici Latini, comparative literature, genre studies
Prof. Dr. Giovanbattista Galdi
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latin linguistics, syntax, semantics, late Latin, epigraphy
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Greek and Latin epistolography, rhetoric, lobbying
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Christianity, historiography, philosophy, political and cultural history
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Roman landscape and settlement archaeology, Roman urbanism, non-invasive surveys
Postdoctoral researchers
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latin linguistics, tense system, quantitative analysis
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documentary papyrology, paleography, Greek and Coptic epistolography, communication practices, politeness
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Greek literature, rhetoric, atticism, ancient epistolography, ekphrasis, ancient education and teaching practices, ancient literary criticism
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ancient Greek novels, fiction, ekphrasis, ancient reception of novels
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Latin imperial literature, ancient Greek and Latin prose fictions, didactic poetry, ancient rhetoric, ancient criticism, the interface between rhetorical theory and literature, conceptualizations and definitions of style in Imperial period
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Roman urbanism and economy
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ancient fiction, ancient Greek novels, theory of fiction, reception of ancient novels in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
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arabic, linguistics
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Greek linguistics, counterfactuality, diachronic linguistics
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Latin rhetoric, didactic literature, history of Classical philology
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Roman and Late Roman archaeology, Roman bathing and villa culture
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Late antique poetry (Satire, Epic), Imperial Period, Claudian, Art-Literature
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lexicography, atticism
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Byzantine poetry, Greek paleography, textual criticism
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Roman landscape archaeology, marble studies
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Roman economic archaeology and history, Agricultural economy
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literary theory, hagiography, ancient fiction, Byzantine literature
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Roman urban survey, Georadar prospections
PhD candidates
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Late antique literature and poetics, Claudian, latin epic
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Greek linguistics, non-literary texts, multilingualism, scripturality
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Social and institutional history of the Byzantine and Syriac world, religious Identity of Oriental Christianity and interaction with Islam, Byzantine and Oriental canon and monastic law
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late Roman aristocracy, imperial elite, prosopography
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Greek linguistics, non-literary texts, relativisation
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documentary papyrology, materiality, administrative and legal texts, genre
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Latin culinary handbooks, Apicius, Athinus
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Greek linguistics, non-literary texts, orthography
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Late antique Greek literature, ancient meteorology
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History of Syriac Christianity, late antique Syriac Historiography and Hagiography, East Syrian Monasticism, social and institutional history of Middle East
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Italo-Greek hagiography, concept of fiction, characterization
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letters in Council Acts of Chalcedon
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recommendation letters
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Syriac literature and history, translations from Greek into Syriac
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Latin linguistics, labile verbs, historical linguistics, diachronic linguistics, linguistic typology, syntax, semantics
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Latin linguistics, epigraphy, sub-standard Latin, sociolinguistics, Latin vowel system
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Byzantine literature, especially epistolography, history of performance, performativity and representation of gender in literature
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late Latin poetry, elegiac writing, ageing studies, age in Antique literature
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Latin literature, Venantius Fortunatus, ecocriticism, ecopoetics
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letters of Basil, Symmachus
Associate members
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early Christian and apologetic literature, literary theory, ancient and late ancient philosophy
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The martyr act of Saint Thecla
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early Christianity, history of the study of ancient religions, history of scholarship, intellectual history, Judaism
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Syriac literature, history, and political thought
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Greek and Syriac in contact, Syriac rhetoric, Syriac education, reception of Greek culture in the Middle East, reception of Greek novels in Late Antique Middle East
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classical and early medieval philosophy, early Christianity
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antiquaniarism, late antique bureaucracy and localism
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Troy narratives, western romance, heroic characterization
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Linguistics, papyrology, language standardization, Greek case system, language contact
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military history, barbarians, history of violence, institutional history, political history, warlordism