Every week of the semester. The Role of Religion in the Ancient Roman State At the end of the course, students will be able to orientate in problems of relationships between the Roman religion and the Roman state.
Every week of the semester Historical and Critical Introduction to the Early Christian Literature I: The New Testament No previous knowledge of the New Testament or earliest Christianity is presupposed.
Every week of the semester. Reading Homer's Ilias ...introduces students to the Homeric world by close reading of selected portions of the foundational text of Western literature, ancient Greek epic Ilias
Every week of the semester. Selected topics in Arabic literature and culture The course examines a variety of topics at the intersection of literature and culture. It largely draws on research originating in cultural psychology and/or sociology in order to gain new insights into literary and cultural texts...
9. - 13. 10. 2017 prof. Ulrike Ehmig (Heidelberg) Perception and Handling of Risks in Roman antiquity Why modern risk research does not consider antiquity and medieval age? How to calculate probability in antiquity? ...
9. -12. 10. 2017 prof. Stelios Virvidakis Contemporary Debates on Greek Cultural and National Identity This seminar focuses on the problem of Greek cultural and national identity, which is at the center of discussions among intellectuals dealing with competing narratives converning the formation and the history of the Modern Greek nation...
31.10. - 2.11. 2017 prof. Béla Adamik (Budapešť) Introduction to bad Latin according to misspelt inscriptions The aim of this course is to provide Latinists with a reasonably comprehensive introduction to inscriptional Latin particularly concerning the interpretation of misspellings and other, e.g. metrical faults to be found in inscriptions...
13. - 16. 11. 2017 dr. Lilia Diamantopoulou Reading Pictures – Viewing Texts: Greek Visual Poetry from Technopaignia to Hypertext Greek Visual Poetry is a literary form that has remained underexplored, although, as this seminar contends, it constitutes a crucial part of Modern Greek literature...
23. - 24.11. 2017 prof. Julia Verkholantsev Language and Historical Method in the Middle Ages The course aims to provide students with an advanced understanding of how language was imagined and used in medieval Christian communities with a special focus on central, eastern, and southern European lands...
