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Holding degrees in classics, linguistics, and early modern history, I am developing a multifaceted line of research focusing on the appropriation of the Ancient Greek heritage in early modern Europe and its impact on modern society. (1) I study the appropriation of Greek linguistic concepts such as ‘dialect’, which evolved from a philological idea in antiquity to a highly politicized notion in modern times. (2) I investigate the 16th-century ...

An ancient world of manners. A multimodal approach to politeness theory through Greek documentary papyri Ghent University

Klaas Bentein

Department of Linguistics

This postdoc proposal aims to investigate interpersonal relationships and social interactions in Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (III BCE-VII CE) through Greek documentary papyri. The research will use the linguistic framework of historical politeness, which will be applied in an innovative way, by including a multimodal dimension. In contrast to literary sources, documentary papyri provide a pivotal witness on all social classes, offering ...

Special Research Fund Professorship in Ancient Greek linguistics and historical sociolinguistics Ghent University

Klaas Bentein

Department of Linguistics

A professorship granted by the Special Research Fund is a primarily research-oriented position and is made available for excellent researchers with a high-quality research programme.

Tracing semantic change in Greek derivational morphology: a computational, distributional-semantic approach KU Leuven

Dirk Speelman

Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Leuven, Comparative, Historical and Applied Linguistics, Leuven

The central goal of this project is to to create an accurate, corpus-driven description of derivational morphological change in Ancient Greek (8th c. BC-8th c. AD), using computational techniques. It will take advantage of a large, automatically linguistically analyzed corpus of Ancient Greek and investigate how the usage of specific morphological constructions changes over time. Unlike previous approaches, special attention will be paid to the ...

From Chaos to Order - the Creation of the World. New Views on the Reception of Platonic Cosmogony in Later Greek Thought, Pagan and Christian. KU Leuven

Gerd Van Riel

De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Research Unit of Biblical Studies, Research Unit of History of Church and Theology, Greek Studies, Leuven

Research on the reception of Platonic Cosmogony in Later Greek Thought, Pagan and in Christian comments on Genesis 1 - 3.

PlutarchU+2019s Politicians and the People: Popular Politics in the 'Parallel Lives' and the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire Ghent University

Andries Johan Zuiderhoek

Department of History

This project studies mass-elite relations in the Greek cities of the Roman empire by examining PlutarchU+2019s Parallel Lives, a second-century AD collection of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen from classical Athens to Republican Rome. Up till now, historians have explored these biographies as sources on the periods they describe, whereas Plutarch scholars have focused on their function as a programme for moral ...

What was antiquarian literature in Greek antiquity? Collection of the fragments of Aristotle's Politeiai for 'FGrHist IV' with translation, commentary and syntheses KU Leuven

Stefan Schorn

Ancient History, Leuven

The aim of this research project is to make a major contribution to our knowledge of antiquarian literature in Greek antiquity and to reassess its relation to historiography. For this purpose, the fragments of Aristotles Politeiai will be edited in critical editions, translated and commented on. This will form the basis of a reconstruction of the authors working method and of the leading principles characterizing this work, which will enable us ...

Matter and soul. Greek Christian treatises on human condition from Late Antiquity, and their relation to earlier philosophical views on matter. KU Leuven

Caroline Macé

Greek Studies, Leuven, De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

The fictional life. A narratological-rhetorical approach to characterization and fictionality in the Greek biographers in the imperial period Ghent University

Kristoffel Demoen

Department of Literary Studies, Department of Latin and Greek

This research project aims at a formal description of fictionality in ancient sophists' and philosophers' biographies (that is, non-fiction with clearly fictional characteristics) from the imperial period (1st-4th cent. AD). Therefore it develops a narratological-rhetorical analysis of character construction. This project enhances our understanding of the formal specificity of fictional and non-fictional narrative literature.

Are we fair to Diodorus? The Historical Method of Diodorus Siculus and his Place in Ancient Historiography. KU Leuven