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Eran Almagor is a researcher originally based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he did his degrees for BA and MA and his PhD dissertation on Plutarch's Life of Artaxerxes (Introduction and Commentary) - awarded the Bernard M. Bloomfield Memorial Prize for Outstanding dissertations.
From 2006 to 2007 he was a Visiting Research Fellow, at the Classics Department, Oxford University; From 2007 to 2008 a Lady Davis Fellow; During 2009 he was a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. and since 2009 a Post-doctoral research fellow of the Minerva-Foundation (max planck gesellschaft) at the Simon-Dubnow-Institute in Leipzig.
He has participated in numerous conferences and panels and is organizing an international symposium on Plutarch in Oxford in July 2011. He has published articles on Greek history and thought and on literary aspects of ancient texts. He is co-editing a volume on ancient Ethnography to appear in 2012. He works on Plutarch, especially on his biographies, and on imperial Greek authors. He studies the history of the Achaemenid Empire and Greco-Persian relations in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE and the image of the Persians in Greek literature.
Information on participating / attending:
Date:
01/25/2011 18:15 - 01/25/2011 19:30
Event venue:
Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg
Gewölbekeller
Landfriedstr. 12
69117 Heidelberg
Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Target group:
Students, all interested persons
Relevance:
regional
Subject areas:
History / archaeology
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
01/24/2011
Sender/author:
Désirée Martin
Department:
Pressereferat
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event33897
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