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Temple oaths in Ptolemaic Egypt : a study at the crossroads of law, ethics and religion
Viviana Massa defended her thesis on 16 December 2018.
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Hellenistic economic thought
This subproject of 'From Homo Economicus to Political Animal' analyzes Greek economic thinking of the Hellenistic period.
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Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece. Under the Spell of Stories
Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece pursues a new approach to ancient Greek narrative beyond the taxonomies of structuralist narratologies.
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Capitalism, Migration, War and Nationalism in an Aegean Port Town: The Rise and Fall of a Belle Époque in the Ottoman county of Foçateyn
This dissertation describes the history of the Ottoman county of Foçateyn as a case study of the process of transition from the Ottoman Empire to nation states.
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Die biblisch-hebräische Partikel נָא im Lichte der antiken Bibelübersetzungen. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer vermuteten Höflichkeitsfunktion
My research addresses the function of the much-debated particle -nā in Biblical Hebrew, often translated with “please”, from the point of view of the most important ancient Bible translations (Greek, Syriac, Latin). It combines textual criticism, translation technique, discourse pragmatics, and the…
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Tekstbegrip in het onderwijs klassieke talen
In this study an attempt has been made to describe the degree in which the new objectives of the school subjects Greek and Latin, as formulated at the theoretical level by institutes as curriculum planning committees, are are incorporated by the teachers in their actual teaching practice.
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What politicians can learn from Cicero and Dionysius
'How do you write a slogan to win an election?' Steven Ooms answers this question in his PhD research into ideas about good prose in the time of Caesar and Emperor Augustus. This period is considered a high point for the development of literature. The Roman Cicero and the Greek Dionysius of Halicarnassus…
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The Figure of Abraham in the Metrical Homilies of Jacob of Sarug: Its Literary and Theological Context
This project is a close and sensitive contextual study of Jacob of Sarug's (ca. 451-521 AD) metrical homily
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Beyond Departure: The Greeks in Egypt, 1962-1976
PhD defence
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Research Areas
The Centre is the proud home of several research programmes.
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Library
The library of the Papyrological Institute is the most complete facility for papyrological studies in the Netherlands.
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Diversifying Ancient History
The project ‘Diversifying Ancient History’, sponsored by the JEDI Fund from the Faculty of Humanities, aims to thoroughly revise the first-year curriculum of Ancient History. Through these innovations, the course will cater the needs of the present generation.
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Barbarism Revisited: New Perspectives on an Old Concept
The figure of the barbarian has captivated the Western imagination from Greek antiquity to the present. Since the 1990s, the rhetoric of civilization versus barbarism has taken center stage in Western political rhetoric and the media. But how can the longevity and popularity of this opposition be accounted…
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Protective interventions by local elites in early Islamic Egypt
On 13 September 2023 Eline Scheerlinck successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Artisans versus nobility?
Multiple identities of elites and ‘commoners’ viewed through the lens of crafting from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean
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The idea of the primitive hut
Subproject of
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Linguists from Leiden decipher Phrygian and Lydian inscriptions
Linguists Alwin Kloekhorst and Alexander Lubotsky from Leiden University made a great discovery this summer. They deciphered a few dozen inscriptions on pot shards found in Daskyleion (North-West Turkey) as Phrygian and Lydian, and thus proved the presence of the Phrygians and Lydians in that area.
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Agonal perspectives on Nietzsche's philosophy of critical transvaluation
Nietzsche’s concept of the agon or Wettkampf, a measured and productive form of conflict inspired by ancient Greek culture, has attracted a good deal of interest in Nietzsche studies and beyond. This book, by a leading expert on the topic, brings together research conducted over 20 years with a focus…
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Counting points on surfaces
van Luijk
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Education
The Leiden Institute for Philosophy has a unique profile in the Low Countries and is one of few of its kind worldwide. It takes a global and comparative perspective of philosophy, whereas most philosophy programs restrict themselves to European and Anglo-American philosophical traditions rooted in Greek…
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Ripple in still water when there is no pebble tossed
This Festschrift in honour of Cary J. Martin
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o- and ā-stems in Ancient Greek and a potential early syncretism between Instrumental and Dative in Mycenaean Greek
Lecture, CIEL Seminars
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Resistance and Revolt in Egypt and Babylonia: The Persian Empire (539-330 BC) in the Eyes of its Rebels
The Persian Empire (539-330 BCE) was the first world empire in history. At its height, it united a territory stretching from present-day India to Libya - and it would take 2,000 years before significantly larger empires emerged in early modern Eurasia. Its size and power was revered by some, feared…
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Volume 2 (2020)
Issue 1
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Medieval Chalcis and its Euboean Hinterland
This project aims to answer the following questions: how did the landscape and geography of the local surroundings of Chalcis impact medieval to early modern productivity, habitation, mobility and interaction in a wider sense? And where are such changes and continuations still visible in the landsca…
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JEDI Fund 2023
On this page you will find more information about the selected projects of the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund for 2023.
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About the programme
The one-year History specialisation in Ancient History offers an attractive mix of theoretical knowledge and practical experience.
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Text in Context
Recontextualising the Papyri from Roman Soknopaiou Nesos / Dimê (Fayyum, Egypt)
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On Composition in Herodian’s History of the Roman Emperors
In the History of the Roman Emperors, what does Herodian’s method of composition consist of and how does it relate to his writing intention, particularly in terms of political and moral idea(l)s?
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Territoriality and choreography in site-situated performance
The research project examines the site-specific event within the field of installation art and choreographic practices.
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Research Traineeship Programme completed: 'Here you are encouraged to try things'
Discovering while still studying whether work in science might be for you. That is what students get during the faculty Research Traineeship Programme. On Friday 1 September, they presented their results to each other and their supervisors.
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Canonisation as Innovation
Anchoring Cultural Formation in the First Millennium BCE
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Valuing Labour in Greco-Roman Antiquity
How did ancient Greeks and Romans regard work?
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Hellenistische Rechtsfiguren in het Romeins Recht
In what way did Hellenistic legal institutions concerning secured credit influence Roman law?
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Leiden Jewish Studies Association Thesis Prize
The Leiden Jewish Studies Association awarded the inaugural “Best Thesis in Jewish Studies” in December 2023.
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Ann Brysbaert
Faculteit Archeologie
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Forum Antiquum Lecture Spring 2022: 'Recurring time and its problems in Greek literature'
Lecture
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About the programme
During the two-year Ancient History (research) programme you will learn from inspired academics and learn how to conduct quality research.
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Conceptual Metaphors and Etymology: the case of Homeric Greek κερτομέω ‘to mock’
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten (BL)
Anybody can imagine how difficult it is to read a 2000 years old text for the first time. It is almost inevitable that at first mistakes are made in deciphering and interpretation. This is why revision and correction of published texts play an important role within Papyrology.
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Making and creating with ages-old knowledge
The ability to create objects and structures with our hands has been essential to human development. This ability is something modern society is at risk of losing. Leiden archaeologists gather knowledge about ancient processes of ‘making and creating’ over the centuries, knowledge that helps our current…
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Crisis and Critique Network
This network brings together scholars whose work explores how contemporary frameworks of crisis produce experiences of the present, rehash or disrupt established narratives of the past, and broker specific outlooks on the future. We collaborate in studying these crisis-scapes and exploring how they…
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The Unification of the Mediterranean World 400 BC - 400 AD
The Leiden Ancient History specialization concentrates on the study of the economies, societies and cultures of the large empires of the Graeco-Roman world, starting with the empires of Alexander the Great and his successors. The appearance of these empires led to the development of an interaction network…
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Presentations
Presentations related to this chair.
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SETinSTONE
A retrospective impact assessment of human and environmental resource usage in Late Bronze Age Mycenaean Monumental Architecture, Greece