Scholars usually concurr that transport by rivers and lakes greatly stimulated the development of trade in the Roman empire. The contribution of rivers and lakes to transport networks is mostly ...read more
The core of the dissertation concerns the first critical edition of the Old Church Slavonic translation of the Passio Theclae or passion of Saint Thecla, also known as the originally apocryphal ...read more
According to Dawkins (1916), the vowel system of Cappadocian consisted of eight vowels. In addition to the Greek vowels [a,e,i,o,u], it included the Turkish vowels [y, œ, ɯ]. These appeared ...read more
This project seeks to examine the literary representation of performance in Greek late antique hagiographical Lives of 'saints in disguise' (4th-10th c.), holy types that are usually not studied together but ...read more
Research interests: (1) Troy literature from Homer over imperial times towards the Middle Ages; (2) western romances "on the fringe" between Knight and Saint; and (3) heroic characterization.read more
While the ancient Greek novels have been shown to absorb preceding Greek and eastern traditions, not much systematic attention has been paid to how they use, address or confront preceding ...read more
Romeyka is an endangered Greek minority language spoken in north-eastern Turkey. Several hundred years of language contact with Turkish led to interesting morphosyntactic contact phenomena. Since we still lack a ...read more
The modern term “epyllion” commonly refers to a narrative poem in hexameters, which is shorter than a full epic. Literary overviews tend to focus on Hellenistic Greek epyllia, considered pioneers ...read more
How did rural communities cope with the devastations of war in the pre-modern world? The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), which pitched the maritime empire of Athens against the heavy infantry ...read more
The thesis addresses the way in which Philostratos, writing in the early third century C.E., fashions a new version of the Trojan War in the central part of his dialogue, ...read more