Classics and Classical Civilization

Research Programme of the Classics and Classical Civilization

• Research programme
• Members
• Sponsored research projects
• Joint research
• Serial Publications
• Text-edition projects

Research programme

Research programme (pdf)

Members

In the research programme of this cluster c. sixteen full professors, readers, lecturers, postdocs and PhD-students participate, from one department

Classical Languages and Cultures (Classical Philosophy)
Professor F.A.J. de Haas
R.M. van den Berg, PhD

Classical Languages and Cultures (Greek)
Professor I. Sluiter
S.J. Bakker, PhD 
C.C. de Jonge, PhD
M. van Raalte, PhD
A.M. Rademaker, PhD
M.L. Bartels, PhD-student
T.A. van Berkel, PhD-student
C.L. Caspers, PhD-student

Classical Languages and Cultures (Latin)
Professor J. Booth  
M. Buijs, PhD
C.H. Pieper, PhD
M.A.J. Heerink, PhD-student
B.L. Reitz, PhD-student

Greek Languages and Cultures (Ancient History)
Professor H.F.J. Horstmanshoff


In this research programme the following researchers from outside are also involved:

Prof. L. de Ligt (History Department Leiden University)
Prof. R. Copeland (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Dr. R. Maltby (Leeds)

Sponsored research projects

The following externally financed research projects participate in the research-cluster Classics and Classical Civilization:

Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (SEG) (Dr J.H.M. Strubbe, Dr R.A. Tybout - History Department) 

Dictionary project Greek-Dutch (University of Leiden, University of Amsterdam)

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden (NWO financial support for one staff member)

The Limits of Language
Project manager: prof.dr. I. Sluiter (NWO-Vrije competitie, 2005-2009)
Project accommodated at the Centrum voor Taal en Identiteit (Language and Identity Centre: http://www.cti.leidenuniv.nl/

The sublime in context
Project manager: dr. C.C. de Jonge (NWO-VENI - 2010-2013) 

Shaping Roman virtue. Early Roman oratory and the fashioning of aristocratic identity in the Empire
Project manager: dr. C.H. Pieper (NWO-VENI - 2010-2013)

Vastgoed in Latijnse poëzie
Project manager: B.L. Reitz, MPhil (NWO-Toptalent - 2008-2012)

Joint research

The LUICD or individual members work in conjunction with other researchers at Leiden and with research-partners outside Leiden, both nationally and internationally. Apart from the numerous partnerships with colleagues in the Netherlands, the following institutes are involved.


Leiden researchers not connected with the LUICD

• Historians in the SEG project
• Research project implemented by B.P. Muhls, PhD (for LUF / Gratama Foundation)

• Oikos
• Dictionary project Greek-Dutch (University of Leiden, University of Amsterdam)
• ZENO Leiden-Utrecht Research Institute for Philosophy (De Haas)
• The National Protagoras Society (University of Leiden, University of Utrecht, University College Utrecht)

• Marburg, Philipps-Universität, Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden (Worp/Hoogendijk)
• Brussels, Free University, Association Internationale de Papyrologues (Worp)
• Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Penn-Leiden Colloquia (Sluiter)
• Leuven, De Wulf-Mansion Centre, Higher Institute of Philosophy (De Haas)
• Rutgers University (N.J.), Project Theophrastus (Van Raalte, Rademaker)
• Cambridge, Newham College / Whipple Museum of the History of Science (Van Raalte, Rademaker)

Serial Publications

A number of LUICD-researchers are involved in serial publications started at Leiden: 

• Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava; Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyri

Text-edition projects

A number of LUICD-researchers are involved in long-term large-scale text-edition projects

• Project Theophrastus
• A number of staff-members of the Leiden Institute of Papyrology are involved in the publication of Greek and demotic papyri worldwide.
• Ancient Commentators in Translation (ed. R.K.K. Sorabji, Oxford) (Prof. F. de Haas: annotated translations from ancient Greek into English of practically all the philosophical commentaries on Aristotle from late Antiquity).