Marko Vitas

Marko Vitas

Classics Entry Year: 2018

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Marko Vitas is a PhD candidate in the department of Classics, and an MA candidate in the department of Assyriology and Egyptology (through Brown’s Open Graduate Education program). His research explores cultural exchange in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean in the late 2nd and early 1st millennium BC, with a focus on mythology and literature. His dissertation discusses the Myth of Destruction in Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite and Greek sources.     

Marko spent the 2022-2023 academic year at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, where he studied anthropological and comparative approaches to the religions and mythology of the ancient world.

His most recent publications include papers on Plato’s use of Homer and Hesiod, and on Chicago Akkadian Dictionary.  Some of his publications can be accessed through his academia.edu page.

 

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