Projects
Dying at the Margins of Athens: Burial Customs, Local Traditions, and Social Realities in the Attic deme of Thorikos (c. 900-300 BC) Ghent University
This research project will collect and evaluate all material and physical anthropological data from the cemeteries of Thorikos in an attempt to reconstruct social, ideological and political realities in this deme from the Early Iron Age (900 BC) to end of the Late Classical period (300 BC), especially in relation to the city of Athens. By adopting a multidisciplinary approach, following the latest developments in demographic studies, which ...
A morphosyntactic and semantic analysis of the augment use and absence in the oldest Greek literary texts (800-500 BC). Ghent University
My investigation combines Classical Philology and historical linguistics. In several Indo-European languages, such as Greek, Armenian, Phrygian, Sanskrit and Iranian, the past tense form was built not only by using special endings but also by adding a prefix to the verbal form. This prefix is called the “augment” in Classical Philology and Indo-European scholarship. It was mandatory in Phrygian, in classical Greek and classical Sanskrit, but ...
Biography, history and philosophy in the 3rd century BCE Peripatos: the case of Hieronymos of Rhodes KU Leuven
The family in republican Italy: a comparative study of family relationships in Lazio, Etruria and Campania (ca. 509 - 31 B.C.). Ghent University
This interdisciplinary project aims at the comparative analysis of family relationships in Lazio, Etruria and Campania at the time of the Roman Republic (ca. 509 - 31 B.C.). What did these relations look like and how did they evolve? To what extent were they influenced by the Roman integration of Italy? This project will shed light on the social history and connectedness of these regions.
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Studying the effect of TES on SSVEP + MI BCI training. Hasselt University
Transformations in animal husbandry and consumption patterns at the fringes of the Roman Empire. A zooarchaeological study of selected Roman sites in the civitas Menapiorum and Nerviorum (1st century BC- 4th century AD). Ghent University
This research is a zooarchaeological study executed on animal remains from Gallo-Roman sites with diverse socio-economic functions (rural, administrative, military) spread over multiple landscape components in Flanders. Through interdisciplinary research patterns in the relationship between food and social status and how the absorption in the Roman empire has influenced animal husbandry in farthest corners of the Imperium.