Visiting Scholars
2009-2010
September 2009 - February 2010
Fernando Decio Porto Muniz, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
"False Pleasures in the Philebus: Words and Images"
January 2010 - June 2010
Boris Mikhaylovich Nikolsky, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow (Russia)
"Moral Themes in Euripides' Hippolytus: A Structural and Intertextual Study"
March 1, 2010 - April 18, 2010
Ranja Knöbl, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich (Germany)
"Stobaeus on Old Age"
2008-2009
Valeria Cinaglia, University of Exeter (Great Britain)
"Dramatic Epistemology: A Study of the Problem of Knowledge in New Comedy in the Context of Fourth Century BC Philosophy"
Tomáš Hejduk,
Fulbright-Masaryk Grant, University of Pardubice, Faculty of Arts, Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy (Czech Republic)
"Concepts of friendship and education in the religious-political and Socrates´system of education in Ancient Greece"
Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, Henkel Scholar, Historisches Institut Alte Geschichte Justus-Liebig Universität (Germany)
"Social History of Hellenistic Macedonia"
2007-2008
Natalie Breitenstein, doctoral candidate, University of Bern (Fulbright Fellow) (Switzerland)
"A commentary on Petronius, Satyrica, 1-15"
Isabella Tardin Cardosa, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil)
"Greek literary theory"
Christian Mann, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (sponsored by the Heisenberg Program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) (Germany)
"The Roman way of death? Gladiatorial battles in the eastern Roman empire"
Elizabeth Minchin, Australian National University (Australia)
"Homer"
2006-2007
Marcelo Boeri, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago (Chile)
"A translation of Stoic writers"
Hartwin Brandt, Henkel Scholar,
Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg (Germany)
"Old Age, Death and Suicide in Antiquity"
Maria Cecelia Coelho, University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
"Gorgias and Greek tragedy"
Pavel Knyazev, Samara State University (Russia)
"Early Imperial Rome and the Outer World: A Comparative Study of Human Interrelations in Politics and Law"
2005-2006
Regina Höschele, University of Toronto (Canada)
"Ancient Greek epigrammatists"
Burkhardt Meissner, Henkel Scholar,
Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg (Germany)
“War and Strategy: History and Typology of Ancient Warfare”
Fernando Rey, Complutense University, Madrid (Spain)
Olivier Renault, Sorbonne IV, Paris (France)
"The conception of thumos in Platonic philosophy"
2004-2005
Helen-Melina Tamiolaki (Greece)
2003-2004
Christiana Franco, Siena (Italy)
"Attitudes toward animal intelligence in ancient Greece"
Anna Mastrogianni, University of Greifswald (now at the University of Komitini, Greece) (Germany)
"Mediaeval Latin rhetoric"
Marcela Ristorto, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
"A translation and commentary on Plautus Curculio"
2002-2003
Enrique Pérez Benito, University of Valladoid (Spain)
"Religion in the Greek novel"
Emiliano Buise, University of Buenos Aires (Arete Foundation) (Argentina)
Sergiy Kurbatov, Sumy State University (now at the Aeronautical University, Kiev, Russia) (Ukraine)
"Ancient political philosophy"
Carmen Morán Rodiquez, University of Valladoid, Spain
2001-2002
Romain Brethes, University of Bordeaux (France)
"Comic elements in the ancient Greek novel"
2000-2001
Claudia Fernandez, University of La Plata (Argentina)
"Aristophanic comedy"
1999-2000
Anna Missiou, University of Crete at Rethymnon (Greece)
"A study of Andocides"
1998-1999
Paula Correa, University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
"A commentary on Archilochus"
1997-1998
Marco Formisano, Palermo (now at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany) (Italy)
"An edition of Vegetius"