Projects
BOF ZAP medieval Greek literature Ghent University
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.
The art of code-switching: Latin and Greek in Erasmus' (net)works KU Leuven
The fictional life. A narratological-rhetorical approach to characterization and fictionality in the Greek biographers in the imperial period Ghent University
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
The role of Aristotle's criticisms of Plato in the development of ancient Platonism. KU Leuven
The conventional historiography of ancient Platonism follows patterns that ultimately go back to Antiquity itself, yet overlooks certain continuities as well as discontinuities. This project chooses an unorthodox approach in that it does not try to reflect the issues emphasised in the sources, but instead selects one particular angle of approach: Aristotle’s critical discussion of Platonic views. By analyzing Platonic responses to Aristotle’s ...
NIKAW (Networks of Ideas and Knowledge in the Ancient World) KU Leuven
The use of ancient Christianity in the romanità as a part of the political religion of Italian fascism Ghent University
The project analyzes the position of religion, Christian and pagan, in Italian fascism, more specifically in the so-called 'romanità ' or 'Romanness'. This myth was one of the cornerstones of fascism. The analysis of the position of religion is situated in the idea of fascism as a form of modern, political religion.
From Trismegistos to Trismegistos+: Ancient World Texts, People and Places for the Semantic Web KU Leuven
This project will take Trismegistos (www.trismegistos.org), a database with information about the ancient world, to the next level and transform it in Trismegistos+ by focusing on three core areas: texts, people, and places. For texts, we will venture out into the world of academic publications, extracting references to ancient sources and annotating these in the pdf’s; for people, Trismegistos+ will create an exhaustive list of names in ...
Biblical Exegesis in Byzantium KU Leuven
The research program I propose is to carry out a systematic study of all important and characteristic features of Byzantine exegesis. The development of exegesis in the Latin West has been recorded and studied but for Byzantium such research is completely lacking. I wish to further map out and open up the corpus of Byzantine exegetical literature and to examine its sources, methods, development and role in Byzantine society. In the end this ...